Yoko Laurence

MSc PhD

Research Fellow

in Health Economics

Room

327

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

Tel.

+44 (0)20 7927 2560

Yoko has a BFA (hons) in Theatre and Mathematics. She worked as an actuarial analyst at a US consultancy for 4 years before getting her MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from LSE/LSHTM in 2006.

She then returned to Trinidad and Tobago, where she taught mathematics at secondary and undergraduate level for 1 year then moved on to teaching biostatistics and health policy for an additional 4 years at the national university (Masters in Health Administration programme).

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development

Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases

Tuberculosis (TB) Centre

Teaching

Yoko is a seminar leader for the Economic Evaluation course and a tutor on the MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing.

Research

Yoko’s research career began in 2003 as Trend Supervisor responsible for producing the quarterly Automobile Actuarial Trend reports, which included the economic impact of societal trends and changes on automobile insurance in the US.

For her masters Yoko did a review of the social prevention programmes for HIV in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries. While working in Trinidad and Tobago, her research projects included a case study of the integration of HIV and AIDS services into maternal, newborn and child health services; an evaluation of the national health system’s response to HIV, AIDS and STIs; and a Health Needs Assessment of Tobago.

Yoko completed her PhD in 2017, which assessed strategies for screening and managing patients with concurrent tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus in Indonesia, Peru and Romania. It was part of the EU funded TANDEM project: Concurrent Tuberculosis and Diabetes Mellitus; unravelling the causal link and improving care.

Research Area

Decision analysis

Economic evaluation

Health care financing

Health outcomes

Systematic reviews

Vaccines

Modelling

Discipline

Mathematics

Statistics

Disease and Health Conditions

HIV/AIDS

Mental health

Tuberculosis

Cervical cancer

Diabetes

Human papillomavirus (HPV)

Country

Barbados

Ethiopia

Indonesia

St. Kitts and Nevis

Peru

Romania

Trinidad and Tobago

South Africa

Region

Caribbean small states

East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)

Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)

World

Selected Publications

Disease characteristics and treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus attending government health services in Indonesia, Peru, Romania and South Africa.

Soetedjo, N.N.M. ; McAllister, S.M. ; Ugarte-Gil, C. ; Firanescu, A.G. ; Ronacher, K. ; Alisjahbana, B. ; Costache, A.L. ; Zubiate, C. ; Malherbe, S.T. ; Koesoemadinata, R.C. ; Laurence, Y.V. ; Pearson, F. ; Kerry-Barnard, S. ; Ruslami, R. ; Moore, D.A.J. ; Ioana, M. ; Kleynhans, L. ; Pernama, H. ; Hill, P.C. ; Mota, M. ; Walzl, G. ; Dockrell, H.M. ; Critchley, J.A. ; van Crevel, R. ; TANDEM consortium (members listed in full in Supplementary File), . ;

2018

Trop Med Int Health

Cost-effectiveness and resource implications of aggressive action on tuberculosis in China, India, and South Africa: a combined analysis of nine models.

Menzies, N.A. ; Gomez, G.B. ; Bozzani, F. ; Chatterjee, S. ; Foster, N. ; Baena, I.G. ; Laurence, Y.V. ; Qiang, S. ; Siroka, A. ; Sweeney, S. ; Verguet, S. ; Arinaminpathy, N. ; Azman, A.S. ; Bendavid, E. ; Chang, S.T. ; Cohen, T. ; Denholm, J.T. ; Dowdy, D.W. ; Eckhoff, P.A. ; Goldhaber-Fiebert, J.D. ; Handel, A. ; Huynh, G.H. ; Lalli, M. ; Lin, H.H. ; Mandal, S. ; McBryde, E.S. ; Pandey, S. ; Salomon, J.A. ; Suen, S.C. ; Sumner, T. ; Trauer, J.M. ; Wagner, B.G. ; Whalen, C.C. ; Wu, C.Y. ; Boccia, D. ; Chadha, V.K. ; Charalambous, S. ; Chin, D.P. ; Churchyard, G. ; Daniels, C. ; Dewan, P. ; Ditiu, L. ; Eaton, J.W. ; Grant, A.D. ; Hippner, P. ; Hosseini, M. ; Mametja, D. ; Pretorius, C. ; Pillay, Y. ; Rade, K. ; Sahu, S. ; Wang, L. ; Houben, R.M. ; Kimerling, M.E. ; White, R.G. ; Vassall, A. ;

2016

Lancet Glob Health

Costs to Health Services and the Patient of Treating Tuberculosis: A Systematic Literature Review.

Laurence, Y.V.; Griffiths, U.K.; Vassall, A.;

2015

Pharmacoeconomics

Impact and cost-effectiveness of new tuberculosis vaccines in low- and middle-income countries.

Knight, G.M.; Griffiths, U.K.; Sumner, T.; Laurence, Y.V.; Gheorghe, A.; Vassall, A.; Glaziou, P.; White, R.G.;

2014

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

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