Louise Knight

MSc

Research Fellow

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

Email
Louise

Affiliations

Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Department of Global Health and Development

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH)

Statistical Methodology

Teaching

Teaching related activities for Basic Epidemiology and Evaluation of Public Health Interventions.

Research

I am a social epidemiologist with interest in intervention research on violence prevention, HIV prevention and treatment, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Previous focus includes field epidemiology, health information systems and operational research within humanitarian medical organisations.

Current work includes violence prevention research in Uganda, Cote d'ivoire, Zanzibar and South Africa and I am a member of the child protection research group: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/child-protection-research-group

I am the study manager for the Contexts of Violence in Adolescence Cohort study (CoVAC): a mixed-methods cohort study in Uganda, with 3 waves of epidemiological data collection, 4 waves of qualitative data collection, and an integrated intervention development component. This study aims to further understanding on how family, peer, school and community contexts affect children’s experience of violence in adolescence and early adulthood.

Research Area

Clinical trials

Complex interventions

Conflict

Maternal health

Sexual health

Social and structural determinants of health

Adolescent health

Behaviour change

Impact evaluation

Mixed methods

Outbreaks

Implementation research

Randomised controlled trials

Reproductive health

Schools

Violence

Discipline

Epidemiology

Operational research

Disease and Health Conditions

HIV/AIDS

Mental health

Sexually transmitted infection

Country

Congo, Dem. Rep.

Kenya

Lesotho

Pakistan

Tanzania

Uganda

South Africa

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

The Good School Toolkit for reducing physical violence from school staff to primary school students: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Uganda.

Devries, K.M. ; Knight, L. ; Child, J.C. ; Mirembe, A. ; Nakuti, J. ; Jones, R. ; Sturgess, J. ; Allen, E. ; Kyegombe, N. ; Parkes, J. ; Walakira, E. ; Elbourne, D. ; Watts, C. ; Naker, D. ;

2015

Lancet Glob Health

Need for a global obstetric fistula training strategy.

Rushwan, H. ; Khaddaj, S. ; Knight, L. ; Scott, R. ;

2012

Int J Gynaecol Obstet

Seven-year experience of a primary care antiretroviral treatment programme in Khayelitsha, South Africa.

Boulle, A. ; Van Cutsem, G. ; Hilderbrand, K. ; Cragg, C. ; Abrahams, M. ; Mathee, S. ; Ford, N. ; Knight, L. ; Osler, M. ; Myers, J. ; Goemaere, E. ; Coetzee, D. ; Maartens, G. ;

2010

AIDS

Are women who work in bars, guesthouses and similar facilities a suitable study population for vaginal microbicide trials in Africa?

Vallely, A.; Hambleton, I.R.; Kasindi, S.; Knight, L.; Francis, S.C.; Chirwa, T.; Everett, D.; Shagi, C.; Cook, C.; Barberousse, C.; Watson-Jones, D.; Changalucha, J.; Ross, D.; Hayes, R.J.; Microbicides Development Programme, .;

2010

PLoS One

Suitability of simple HIV rapid tests in clinical trials in community-based clinic settings.

Everett, D.B.; Baisley, K.; Changalucha, J.; Vallely, A.; Watson-Jones, D.; Cook, C.; Knight, L.; Ross, D.A.; Mugeye, K.; McCormack, S.; Lacey, C.J.; Jentsch, U.; Hayes, R.J.;

2009

J Clin Microbiol

Antiretroviral treatment outcomes from a nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment programme in rural Lesotho: observational cohort assessment at two years.

Cohen, R. ; Lynch, S. ; Bygrave, H. ; Eggers, E. ; Vlahakis, N. ; Hilderbrand, K. ; Knight, L. ; Pillay, P. ; Saranchuk, P. ; Goemaere, E. ; Makakole, L. ; Ford, N. ;

2009

J Int AIDS Soc

Effect of Herpes Simplex Suppression on Incidence of HIV among Women in Tanzania.

Watson-Jones, D.; Weiss, H.A.; Rusizoka, M.; Changalucha, J.; Baisley, K.; Mugeye, K.; Tanton, C.; Ross, D.; Everett, D.; Clayton, T.; Balira, R.; Knight, L.; Hambleton, I.; Le Goff, J.; Belec, L.; Hayes, R.;

2008

N Engl J Med

Microbicides Development Program, Tanzania-Baseline Characteristics of an Occupational Cohort and Reattendance at 3 Months.

Vallely, A.; Kasindi, S.; Hambleton, I.R.; Knight, L.; Chirwa, T.; Balira, R.; Changalucha, J.; Watson-Jones, D.; Everett, D.; Gavyole, A.; Moyes, J.; Pujades Rodriguez, M.; Ross, D.A.; Hayes, R.J.;

2007

Sex Transm Dis

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