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Dr Alison Price

Associate Professor - ISSF Fellowship

United Kingdom

I trained in veterinary medicine in Australia and worked in clinical practice for the Royal Veterinary College, London, before completing a DPhil in Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Since 2012 I have worked as an Epidemiologist with the Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU), based predominately in northern rural Malawi.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Global Chronic Conditions

Teaching

I am a co-organiser for the 'Practical Epidemiology' distance learning module (EPM103) and also contribute to teaching on 'Study Design: writing a grant application' (EPM201).

Research

My work focuses on the epidemiology of emerging, long-term non-communicable diseases in low-income, sub-Saharan Africa, where there is a concurrent burden of long-term (treated) communicable diseases, notably HIV. In 2015, with support from a Wellcome clinical post-doctoral fellowship, I established community-level stroke surveillance in rural Malawi to quantify the population burden of incident stroke and to investigate important modifiable risk factors. In 2021, with support from a Wellcome clinical career development fellowship, I am extending surveillance activities to investigate the population burden of, and risk factors for, other important cardiovascular conditions in rural and urban populations in Malawi.

I collaborate with investigators from the ALPHA network of longitudinal population HIV studies in sub-Saharan Africa and I am a co-investigator on the Africa Non-communicable Diseases Longitudinal Data Alliance (ANDLA) and I co-organise the CGCC Multimorbidity special interest group. 

Selected Publications

The influence of social networks in adoption of integrated health interventions: A qualitative study of fishermen in Malawi
MUKOKA, M; Mhango, O; Twabi, HH; Chipandwe, C; Semphere, R; Msosa, TC; Nliwasa, M; Msefula, C; Harling, G; PRICE, A; FIELDING, K; Choko, AT; Kumwenda, MK;
2025
PLOS global public health
The key design features and effectiveness of social network interventions for HIV testing and linkage services in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
MUKOKA, M; Msosa, TC; Twabi, HH; Semphere, R; Nliwasa, M; Harling, G; PRICE, A; FIELDING, K; Choko, AT;
2025
Journal of the International AIDS Society
Vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus in the WHO African region: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Riches, N; Henrion, MY R; MacPherson, P; Hahn, C; Kachala, R; Mitchell, T; Murray, D; Mzumara, W; Nkoka, O; PRICE, AJ; Riches, J; Seery, A; Thom, N; Loarec, A; Lemoine, M; NDOW, G; Shimakawa, Y; Thompson, P; Morgan, C; Desai, S; Easterbrook, P; Stockdale, AJ;
2025
The Lancet. Global health
Interdisciplinary perspectives on multimorbidity in Africa: Developing an expanded conceptual model.
DIXON, J; Morton, B; Nkhata, MJ; Silman, A; Simiyu, IG; Spencer, SA; Van Pinxteren, M; Bunn, C; CALDERWOOD, C; CHANDLER, CI R; Chikumbu, E; CRAMPIN, AC; Hurst, JR; JOBE, M; Kengne, AP; Levitt, NS; Moshabela, M; Owolabi, M; Peer, N; Phiri, N; Singh, SJ; Tamuhla, T; Tembo, M; Tiffin, N; Worrall, E; ... Limbani, F.
2024
PLOS global public health
Association between physical multimorbidity and common mental health disorders in rural and urban Malawian settings: Preliminary findings from Healthy Lives Malawi long-term conditions survey.
Nkoka, O; Munthali-Mkandawire, S; Mwandira, K; Nindi, P; Dube, A; Nyanjagha, I; Mainjeni, A; Malava, J; Amoah, AS; MCLEAN, E; Stewart, RC; CRAMPIN, AC; PRICE, AJ;
2024
PLOS global public health
Epidemiology of multimorbidity in low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from four population cohorts.
PRICE, AJ; JOBE, M; SEKITOLEKO, I; CRAMPIN, AC; PRENTICE, AM; SEELEY, J; Chikumbu, EF; Mugisha, J; Makanga, R; Dube, A; Mair, FS; Jani, BD;
2023
PLOS Global Public Health
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