Matthew Saunders

Honorary Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

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I am a public health physician and social epidemiologist passionate about addressing inequities in health and wellbeing through practice, research, and advocacy. My work principally focusses on characterising and addressing the social determinants and consequences of tuberculosis, and I am particularly interested in the co-development of interventions to address these challenges with members of affected communities.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy

Department of Public Health, Environments and Society

Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Teaching

At LSHTM, I contribute as a tutor on the Tuberculosis module of the DBL MSc in Infectious Diseases and as a lecturer and seminar facilitator for the Principles and Practices of Public Health module for the MSc in Public Health. I have also contributed as a seminar facilitator for the MSc in Tropical Medicine.

Research

Research Area

Social epidemiology

Epidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

Tuberculosis

Infectious diseases

Selected Publications

COVID-19, tuberculosis and poverty: preventing a perfect storm.

SAUNDERS, MJ; Evans, CA;

2020

European Respiratory Journal

A household-level score to predict the risk of tuberculosis among contacts of patients with tuberculosis: a derivation and external validation prospective cohort study.

SAUNDERS, MJ; Wingfield, T; Datta, S; Montoya, R; Ramos, E; Baldwin, MR; Tovar, MA; Evans, BE W; Gilman, RH; Evans, CA;

2019

The Lancet. Infectious diseases

Active and passive case-finding in tuberculosis-affected households in Peru: a 10-year prospective cohort study.

SAUNDERS, MJ; Tovar, MA; Collier, D; Baldwin, MR; Montoya, R; Valencia, TR; Gilman, RH; Evans, CA;

2019

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Ending Tuberculosis through Prevention.

SAUNDERS, MJ; Evans, CA;

2019

The New England journal of medicine

Addressing social determinants to end tuberculosis.

Wingfield, T; Tovar, MA; Datta, S; SAUNDERS, MJ; Evans, CA;

2018

Lancet (London, England)

A score to predict and stratify risk of tuberculosis in adult contacts of tuberculosis index cases: a prospective derivation and external validation cohort study.

SAUNDERS, MJ; Wingfield, T; Tovar, MA; Baldwin, MR; Datta, S; Zevallos, K; Montoya, R; Valencia, TR; Friedland, JS; Moulton, LH; Gilman, RH; Evans, CA;

2017

The Lancet. Infectious diseases

A randomized controlled study of socioeconomic support to enhance tuberculosis prevention and treatment, Peru.

Wingfield, T; Tovar, MA; Huff, D; BOCCIA, D; Montoya, R; Ramos, E; Datta, S; SAUNDERS, MJ; LEWIS, JJ; Gilman, RH; Evans, CA;

2017

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Treatment outcomes and post-treatment mortality among people with multidrug/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Sierra Leone: a national cohort study

Greenwood, F; Kamara, RF; Harding, R; Conteh, O; Foray, L; SAUNDERS, MJ; Wingfield, T;

2026

The Lancet Regional Health - Africa

Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence averted by eliminating undernutrition in adults: a modelling study.

SAUNDERS, MJ; MCQUAID, CF; Sinha, P; Martinez, L; Seddon, JA; Dodd, PJ;