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Dr Nuria Sanchez Clemente

Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

I am a paediatric infectious diseases registrar and an Academic Clinical Lecturer based at St. George's University, London. My clinical and academic areas of interest are congenital infections, neglected tropical diseases, health inequalities and migrant health.

I currently divide my time between clinical training and research at St. George's where my focus is on migrant health and the use of large administrative healthcare datasets to study infectious diseases in this population; and at LSHTM as Assistant Professor in the Health Equity Action Lab (Infectious Disease Epidemiology), where I primarily work on the LIFE Zika study in collaboration with the Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group (MERG) and The Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS) in Fiocruz, Brazil to study the long term consequences for children born with congenital Zika infection in Brazil and the wider impacts on their families and societies.

Affiliations

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

Teaching

I teach on the Global Health MSc and MBChB courses at St. George's, the adolescent health MSc course at UCL and have supervised MSc students at LSHTM. I am currently supervising an MRC-LID PhD student.

Research

After working on Peruvian Bartonellosis during my MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health (LSHTM, 2010), I was drawn to return to Latin America and carried out my PhD in Brazil, studying the perinatal outcomes of a Zika pregnancy cohort in the state of Sao Paulo (USP, 2015-19). During my post-doc at LSHTM (2019-22), I obtained funding to use large administrative healthcare datasets to study paediatric migrant healthcare use and outcomes and worked with Doctors of the World, to analyse maternal and postnatal outcomes of undocumented migrants in the UK. I also worked with the RESPOND migrant health project at UCLH and carried out qualitative research to inform the design of pathways for newly arrived asylum seeking children and young people. Alongside this, I have a strong interest in participatory research, and I am working with the Migrant Health Research Group at St. George's to create a sustainable community-led migrant health network of individuals with lived experience of migration.

Research Area
Epidemiology
Paediatrics
Clinical research
Disease and Health Conditions
Zika
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Paediatric, maternal, and congenital mpox: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
SANCHEZ CLEMENTE, N; Coles, C; PAIXAO, ES; BRICKLEY, EB; Whittaker, E; Alfven, T; Rulisa, S; Agudelo Higuita, N; Torpiano, P; Agravat, P; Thorley, EV; Drysdale, SB; Le Doare, K; Muyembe Tamfum, J-J;
2024
The Lancet. Global health
A Whole-child, whole-family approach to health assessments for asylum-seeking children.
SANCHEZ CLEMENTE, N; Cinardo, P; Ward, A; Longley, N; Harkensee, C; Eisen, S;
2022
BMJ paediatrics open
Beyond arrival: safeguarding unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK.
Sanchez-Clemente, N; Eisen, S; Harkensee, C; LONGLEY, N; O'Grady, R; Ward, A;
2022
Archives of disease in childhood
Case Report: A Severe Paediatric Presentation of COVID-19 in APDS2 Immunodeficiency.
SANCHEZ CLEMENTE, N; Penner, J; Breuer, J; Ip, W; Booth, C;
2022
Frontiers in immunology
Socioeconomic risk markers of arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) infections: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.
Power, GM; Vaughan, AM; Qiao, L; SANCHEZ CLEMENTE, N; PESCARINI, JM; PAIXÃO, ES; Lobkowicz, L; RAJA, AI; Portela Souza, A; Barreto, ML; BRICKLEY, EB;
2022
BMJ Global Health
Co-circulation of Chikungunya Virus during the 2015-2017 Zika Virus Outbreak in Pernambuco, Brazil: An Analysis of the Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group Pregnancy Cohort.
Lobkowicz, L; Miranda-Filho, DD B; Montarroyos, UR; Martelli, CM T; Barreto de Araújo, TV; De Souza, WV; Bezerra, LC A; Dhalia, R; Marques, ET A; Clemente, NS; WEBSTER, J; Vaughan, A; WEBB, EL; BRICKLEY, EB; Alencar Ximenes, RA D; Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group,;
2022
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Epidemic preparedness: Prenatal Zika virus screening during the next epidemic.
Qiao, L; Martelli, CM T; RAJA, AI; SANCHEZ CLEMENTE, N; De Araùjo, TV B; Ximenes, RA D A; Miranda-Filho, DD B; Ramond, A; BRICKLEY, EB;
2021
BMJ global health
The Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group Paediatric Cohort (MERG-PC): A Cohort Profile.
De Barros Miranda-Filho, D; BRICKLEY, EB; Ramond, A; Martelli, CM T; SANCHEZ CLEMENTE, N; Velho Barreto de Araújo, T; RODRIGUES, LC; Montarroyos, UR; De Souza, WV; De Albuquerque, MD F P M; Ventura, LO; Marques, ET A; Leal, MC; Eickmann, SH; Wanderley Rocha, MA; Sobral da Silva, PF; Gomes Carvalho, MD C; Ramos, RC F; Da Silva Oliveira, DM; Xavier, MD N; Vasconcelos, RA L; Veras Gonçalves, A; Brainer, AM; Tenório Cordeiro, M; Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, R; ... On Behalf Of The Microcephaly Epidemic Research Gr,
2021
Viruses
Examining the Association of Socioeconomic Position with Microcephaly and Delayed Childhood Neurodevelopment among Children with Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure.
Power, GM; FRANCIS, SC; SANCHEZ CLEMENTE, N; Vasconcelos, Z; Brasil, P; Nielsen-Saines, K; BRICKLEY, EB; Moreira, ME;
2020
VIRUSES-BASEL
Can Zika Virus Infection in High Risk Pregnant Women Be Differentiated on the Basis of Symptoms?
SANCHEZ CLEMENTE, N; BRICKLEY, EB; Furquim de Almeida, M; Witkin, SS; Duarte Passos, S; Jundiai Zika Cohort Group, T;
2020
VIRUSES-BASEL
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