Dr Jackie Knee
Assistant Professor
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel
London
United Kingdom
I am an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Health Group, a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers focused on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) related research. I joined LSHTM in 2019 as a Marshall Sherfield Fellow. I have a background in environmental health microbiology and hold a PhD in environmental engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Science of Public Health from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I lecture on several modules, including Applied Communicable Disease Control, WASH & Health, and Environmental Epidemiology and support the Public Health for Development course as a tutor and seminar leader in the Applying Public Health Principles module.
Research
I lead or co-lead several projects related to my research interests, including the Environmental Pathway of Infection in Children (EPIC) project which aims to understand childhood exposure to enteric pathogens in Mozambique, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. In Mozambique, this work continues a 10-year collaboration with the National Institute of Health, and is nested within the SaniVac trial, which aims to assess the role of sanitation access on oral rotavirus vaccine immunogenicity and the rate of acquisition of enteric infections during early childhood. I am the co-PI on a study of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, which aims to measure the impact and effectiveness of OCV in an endemic setting of Uvira, DRC, as well as to characterise household-level transmission patterns of Vibrio cholerae. I am the laboratory lead for several studies across sub-Saharan Africa that use tools including TaqMan Array Cards to better understand the role of exposure to enteric pathogens among children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, as well as to explore food-related pathogen exposure among children.