Ms Rebecca Penzias
Research Assistant - NEST
United Kingdom
Rebecca is a Health Systems Researcher with the multi-national NEST360 alliance. NEST360 (Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies) is a multi-partner, collaboration in four African countries (Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria) to innovate, implement and evaluate a package to improve hospital care for small and sick newborns in Africa. More information can be found at https://www.nest360.org.
Rebecca's work focuses on health facility readiness data, database management, and data quality. She is currently pursuing a PhD at LSHTM with a focus on advancing measurement of standards-based service readiness for inpatient small and sick newborn care in Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria.
Previously, she received a MSc (Reproductive and Sexual Health Research) from LSHTM and a BA (Sociology and French) from Boston University, USA. Prior to joining LSHTM, she worked with the Community Asthma Initiative at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Affiliations
Teaching
Rebecca is a tutor on the MSc Reproductive and Sexual Health Research course, the Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health (STEPH) module, Health Data Management (HDM) module, and the distance learning module Statistics for Epidemiology (EPM102). She also supervises MSc summer projects.
Research
Rebecca’s research interests focus on measurement of implementation programmes aimed at improving child health in low resource settings with a particular focus on research that has practical implications for implementers, including governments, policy makers, and other health systems actors.
Her previous research includes quantitative and qualitative projects on sexual minority women’s health, a community intervention to manage childhood asthma, and the experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming adults in emergency medicine.