Professor Philippe Mayaud
MD, MSc, DMTH
Professor
of Infectious Diseases & Reproductive Health
Room
Tel.
Room 304(a)
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
+44 20 7927 2291
- Trained as GP and in Infectious and Tropical Diseases at University of Aix-Marseille, France.
- MSc in Clinical Tropical Medicine from the LSHTM (1990-91).
- Joined LSHTM in 1991.
- Professional experience in HIV/STI care in French Guiana (1985-86), as a District Medical Officer in the Commonwealth of Dominica (1987-1990), and as a researcher in a large STI/HIV intervention and research programme in Mwanza, Tanzania (1991-97), and at MRC Uganda (2019-2020).
- Honorary Professor, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Visiting Professor at University of Sao Paulo (USP), School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Sao Paulo, Brazil, through CAPES-funded "Science without Borders" programme (2015-2018).
- Fellow, MAK'IT (MUSE Advanced Knowledge Institute of Transitions), Montpellier University of Excellence (MUSE), France (Aug-Dec 2019).
Affiliations
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Department of Clinical Research
Centres
Centre for Evaluation
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH)
Vaccine Centre
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre
Teaching
- Module Organiser: "Control of STI" since 1997.
- Regular teaching on the MSc Control of Infectious Diseases, the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the MSc in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research at LSHTM; advisory board and faculty of the new intensive onlin MSc in Sexual & Reproductive Health Policy and Practice, jointly run with the University of Ghana School of Public Health.
- External teaching at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium; Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo (FMUSP), Brazil; British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), UK; School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK; University of Bordeaux and IMEA Fondation Leon M'Ba, Paris, France; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Insitute (Wits-RHI), Johannesburg, South Africa.
Research
- My main research interests are in the control and clinical management of sexually transmitted infectons (STI), and the evaluation of interventions targeting STI, HIV or the HIV-STI interactions, with a particular interest in genital herpes (HSV-2), human papillomavirus (HPV), and genital mucosal infections (gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, Trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis).
- More recently involved in research on the sexual and reproductive health impacts of emerging infections (Zika, arboviruses, SARS-CoV-2).
- Research covers various settings of Africa and Brazil/Latin America.
- Coordinator of an EU/FP7 funded HARP (HPV in Africa Research Partnership) (2010-2014) conducting research on the evaluation of cervical cancer prevention among HIV-infected women in Africa
- LSHTM PI for the EU-funded ZIKAlliance Consortium (https://zikalliance.tghn.org/)
- LSHTM PI for the MRC/FAPESP-funded CADDE Consortium (https://www.caddecentre.org)
- Since 1994, expert with various WHO STI strategy, guidelines, burden of diseases consultations.
- 2019: Appointed to the WHO International Health Regulations (IHR) Roster of Experts.
- 2021: Advisor and member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the WHO HIV, Hepatitis & STI (HHS) programme.
Research Area
Clinical trials
Primary care
Sexual health
Systematic reviews
Vaccines
Viruses
Randomised controlled trials
Reproductive health
Discipline
Epidemiology
Medicine
Disease and Health Conditions
Herpesviruses
HIV/AIDS
Infectious disease
Sexually transmitted disease
Syphilis
Cervical cancer
Emerging Infectious Disease
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Sexually transmitted infection
Zika
Country
Burkina Faso
Brazil
Ghana
The Gambia
Malawi
Panama
Tanzania
Uganda
South Africa
Zambia
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Sexually Transmitted Infections
2021
Manson’s Tropical Diseases.
Missed opportunities for sexually transmitted infections testing for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis users: a systematic review.
2021
Journal of the International AIDS Society
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil.
2020
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Sexually Transmitted Infections: Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Prevention
2017
Major Infectious Diseases. Disease Control Piorities
Potential impact of existing interventions and of antiretroviral use in female sex workers on transmission of HIV in Burkina Faso: a modeling study.
2015
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
HIV prevention and care services for female sex workers: efficacy of a targeted community-based intervention in Burkina Faso.
2015
Journal of the International AIDS Society
Sexually transmitted infections
2012
Principles of Medicine in Africa
Getting research into policy - Herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) treatment and HIV infection: international guidelines formulation and the case of Ghana.
2011
Health research policy and systems
Rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for syphilis in high-risk populations, Manaus, Brazil.
2009
Emerging infectious diseases
Cervicovaginal HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus type 2 shedding during genital ulcer disease episodes.
2007
AIDS (London, England)
Reduction of HIV-1 RNA levels with therapy to suppress herpes simplex virus.
2007
The New England journal of medicine
The costs of treating curable sexually transmitted infections in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.
2006
Sexually transmitted diseases
Approaches to the control of sexually transmitted infections in developing countries: old problems and modern challenges.
2004
Sexually transmitted infections
HIV/AIDS and STI prevention and care in Rwandan refugee camps in the United Republic of Tanzania
2003
The challenge of sexually transmitted infections control for HIV prevention in refugee settings: Rwandan refugees in Tanzania.
2001
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
High prevalence of trichomoniasis in rural men in Mwanza, Tanzania: results from a population based study.
2000
Sexually transmitted infections
Antibody to herpes simplex virus type 2 as a marker of sexual risk behavior in rural Tanzania.
1999
The Journal of infectious diseases
