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Miss Julia Pescarini

Assistant Professor

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

I have an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy (2010) and a Masters's degree in Parasitology from the University of São Paulo (2012). My passion for infectious disease epidemiology and social inequalities pushed me to specialise in this field. I obtained my PhD in Public Health at the University of São Paulo, having spent some time as a visiting student at LSHTM (2016). Since then, I have been building collaborations between Brazil and the UK through various projects that use administrative data and data linkage to investigate health inequalities and the impact of social protection policies on health. I continue to build my network in Brazil as an associated researcher at The Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS) within the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz, Brazil).

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I am currently teaching in "Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health (STEPH)", "Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (SME)", "Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases" and "Analysis of Eletronic Health Records". I am the Co-Module Organizer for STEPH. I also supervise MSc and PhD students.

Research

I am interested in understanding how poverty, vulnerability and deprived living conditions, included in the broad context of the social determinants of health, affect the chances of people becoming ill and how we can mitigate that. I have experience working with social determination of health, health inequalities and impact evaluation of social policies on inequalities.

Research Area
Global Health
Health inequalities
Health policy
Impact evaluation
Migration
Social and structural determinants of health
Disease and Health Conditions
Leprosy
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Tropical diseases
Tuberculosis
Emerging infectious diseases
Infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
Country
Brazil
Ecuador
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
World

Selected Publications

CIDACS-RL: a novel indexing search and scoring-based record linkage system for huge datasets with high accuracy and scalability.
Barbosa, GC G; ALI, MS; Araujo, B; Reis, S; Sena, S; Ichihara, MY T; PESCARINI, J; Fiaccone, RL; Amorim, LD; Pita, R; Barreto, ME; SMEETH, L; Barreto, ML;
2020
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Conditional Cash Transfer Program and Leprosy Incidence: Analysis of 12.9 Million Families From the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort.
PESCARINI, JM; WILLIAMSON, E; Ichihara, MY; Fiaccone, RL; Forastiere, L; Ramond, A; Nery, JS; Penna, ML F; Strina, A; Reis, S; SMEETH, L; RODRIGUES, LC; BRICKLEY, EB; Penna, GO; Barreto, ML;
2020
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Social distancing measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic: potential impacts and challenges in Brazil.
Aquino, EM L; Silveira, IH; PESCARINI, JM; Aquino, R; Souza-Filho, JA D; Rocha, AD S; Ferreira, A; Victor, A; Teixeira, C; Machado, DB; PAIXÃO, E; Alves, FJ O; Pilecco, F; Menezes, G; Gabrielli, L; Leite, L; Almeida, MD C C D; Ortelan, N; Fernandes, QH R F; Ortiz, RJ F; Palmeira, RN; Junior, EP P; Aragão, E; Souza, LE P F D; Netto, MB; ... Lima, RT D R S.
2020
Ciencia & saude coletiva
Incidence of and Factors Associated With Leprosy Among Household Contacts of Patients With Leprosy in Brazil.
Teixeira, CS S; PESCARINI, JM; Alves, FJ O; Nery, JS; Sanchez, MN; Teles, C; Ichihara, MY T; Ramond, A; SMEETH, L; Fernandes Penna, ML; RODRIGUES, LC; BRICKLEY, EB; Penna, GO; Barreto, ML; Silva, RD C R;
2020
JAMA DERMATOLOGY
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on leprosy treatment adherence and cure in patients from the nationwide 100 Million Brazilian Cohort: a quasi-experimental study.
PESCARINI, JM; WILLIAMSON, E; Nery, JS; Ramond, A; Ichihara, MY; Fiaccone, RL; Penna, ML F; SMEETH, L; RODRIGUES, LC; Penna, GO; BRICKLEY, EB; Barreto, ML;
2020
LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Socioeconomic determinants of leprosy new case detection in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort: a population-based linkage study.
Nery, JS; Ramond, A; PESCARINI, JM; Alves, A; Strina, A; Ichihara, MY; Fernandes Penna, ML; SMEETH, L; RODRIGUES, LC; Barreto, ML; BRICKLEY, EB; Penna, GO;
2019
The Lancet Global Health
Income determines the impact of cash transfers on HIV/AIDS: cohort study of 22.7 million Brazilians.
Silva, AF; Dourado, I; Lua, I; Jesus, GS; Guimarães, NS; Morais, GA S; Anderle, RV R; PESCARINI, JM; Machado, DB; Santos, CA S T; Ichihara, MY; Barreto, ML; Magno, L; Souza, LE; Macinko, J; Rasella, D;
2024
Nature communications
Risk of death following chikungunya virus disease in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort, 2015-18: a matched cohort study and self-controlled case series.
Cerqueira-Silva, T; PESCARINI, JM; Cardim, LL; LEYRAT, C; Whitaker, H; Antunes de Brito, CA; BRICKLEY, EB; Barral-Netto, M; Barreto, ML; Teixeira, MG; Boaventura, VS; PAIXÃO, ES;
2024
The Lancet. Infectious diseases
Income Segregation, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Breast Cancer Mortality Among Women in Brazil.
Guimarães, JM N; PESCARINI, JM; Sousa Filho, JF D; Ferreira, A; Almeida, MD C C D; Gabrielli, L; DOS-SANTOS-SILVA, I; Santos, G; Barreto, ML; Aquino, EM L;
2024
JAMA network open
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