Mr Hugo Legge

Research Fellow

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel street, London
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am an environmental health researcher with an interest in neglected tropical diseases and water, sanitation and hygiene. I graduated from LSHTM with an MSc in Public Health (Environment and Health Stream) in 2016 and following this, worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at SEED Madagascar from 2017-2018, where I designed and coordinated the evaluation of a rural water supply intervention. I joined LSHTM in 2018 as the Clinical Trials Operations Coordinator for the DeWorm3 Project, a multi-country cluster randomised trial testing the feasibility of interrupting transmission of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in selected sites in Benin, Malawi and India. In October 2020 I undertook a new role within LSHTM as the Trial Coordinator for the SABABU project, a cluster randomised trial investigating the contribution of household flooring to diseases burden in two rural settings in Kenya.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control

Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Teaching

Module facilitator – Designing Disease Control Programmes (2018 – 2021)

Module facilitator – Analysis and Design of Research Studies (2018 – present)

Module facilitator – Spatial Epidemiology (2021 - present)

Lecturer – Introduction to Disease Agents and their Control (2022 – present)

MSc tutor – Control of Infectious Diseases (2019 – 2020)

Research

I have a broad range of research interests that cover programme evaluation, neglected tropical diseases, environmental health in low income settings and more specifically water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). I am particularly interested in issues of sustainability of access to WASH and exploring the behavioral outcomes associated with environmental health interventions.

Research Area

Behaviour change

Child health

Clinical trials

Disease control

Environmental Health

Evaluation

Helminths

Hygiene

Impact evaluation

Sanitation

Water

Epidemiology

Operational research

Implementation science

Randomised controlled trials

GIS/Spatial analysis

Disease and Health Conditions

Diarrhoeal diseases

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

Tropical diseases

Infectious diseases

Skin diseases

Country

Congo

India

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

West Bank and Gaza

Region

Arab World

Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)

Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Low-cost domestic rainwater harvesting in rural southeast Madagascar: A process and outcome evaluation

Kelly, J; Tsilahatsy, M; Carnot, T; Fidelos, RW; Randriamanampy, G; Charlier, AZ; Kowalczewski, E; Hasoavana, L; Andriatsihosena, M; Chaplin, H; LEGGE, H;

2023

PLOS Water

Urban Water Access and Use in the Kivus: Evaluating Behavioural Outcomes Following an Integrated WASH Intervention in Goma and Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

LEGGE, H; Fedele, S; Preusser, F; Stys, P; Muzuri, P; Schuberth, M; DREIBELBIS, R;

2022

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminths following sustained implementation of routine preventive chemotherapy: Demographics and baseline results of a cluster randomised trial in southern Malawi.

WITEK-MCMANUS, S; Simwanza, J; Chisambi, AB; Kepha, S; Kamwendo, Z; Mbwinja, A; Samikwa, L; OSWALD, WE; KENNEDY, DS; TIMOTHY, JW S; LEGGE, H; Galagan, SR; Emmanuel-Fabula, M; Schaer, F; Ásbjörnsdóttir, K; HALLIDAY, KE; Walson, JL; Juziwelo, L; BAILEY, RL; Kalua, K; PULLAN, RL;

2021

PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Patterns and Drivers of Household Sanitation Access and Sustainability in Kwale County, Kenya.

LEGGE, H; HALLIDAY, KE; Kepha, S; Mcharo, C; WITEK-MCMANUS, SS; El-Busaidy, H; Muendo, R; Safari, T; Mwandawiro, CS; Matendechero, SH; PULLAN, RL; OSWALD, WE;

2021

Environmental science & technology

Baseline patterns of infection in regions of Benin, Malawi and India seeking to interrupt transmission of soil transmitted helminths (STH) in the DeWorm3 trial.

DeWorm3 Trials Team,;

2020

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminths following sustained implementation of routine preventive chemotherapy: demographics and baseline results of a cluster randomised trial in southern Malawi

WITEK-MCMANUS, S; Simwanza, J; Chisambi, AB; Kepha, S; Kamwendo, Z; Mbwinja, A; Samikwa, L; OSWALD, WE; KENNEDY, DS; Timothy, JW S; LEGGE, H; Galagan, SR; Emmanuel-Fabula, M; Schaer, F; Ásbjörnsdóttir, K; HALLIDAY, KE; Walson, JL; Juziwelo, L; BAILEY, RL; Kalua, K; PULLAN, RL;

2020

Development and application of an electronic treatment register: a system for enumerating populations and monitoring treatment during mass drug administration.

OSWALD, WE; KENNEDY, DS; Farzana, J; Kaliappan, SP; Atindegla, E; Houngbégnon, P; Chisambi, A; WITEK-MCMANUS, S; Galagan, SR; Emmanuel-Fabula, M; Gwayi-Chore, M-C; LEGGE, H; Yard, E; Kalua, K; Ibikounlé, M; Ajjampur, SS R; Means, AR; Ásbjörnsdóttir, KH; HALLIDAY, KE; Walson, JL;

2020

Global Health Action

Does suboptimal household flooring increase the risk of diarrhoea and intestinal parasite infection in low and middle income endemic settings? A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.

SARTORIUS, B; LEGGE, H; PULLAN, R;

2020

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

Implementer and recipient perspectives of community-wide mass drug administration for soil-transmitted helminths in Kwale County, Kenya.

LEGGE, H; Kepha, S; Prochazka, M; HALLIDAY, K; PULLAN, R; Gwayi-Chore, M-C; Njomo, D;

2020

PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Financing and design innovation in rural domestic rainwater harvesting in Madagascar

Chaplin, H; LEGGE, H;