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
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.