Dr Victoria Simms
BSc MSc PhD
Associate Professor
11 Routledge Road
Harare
Zimbabwe
I am a statistical epidemiologist with the Zimbabwe LSHTM Research Partnership and a member of the MRC International Statistics and Epidemiology Group (ISEG).
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
I teach on the Distance Learning Epidemiology programme and I am a Module Organiser of the Data Management module CTM205 in the Clinical Trials MSc.
Research
I work on randomised controlled trials and observational studies in the areas of HIV, mental health and adherence to antiretroviral therapy, for children, adolescents and adults.
Research Area
Child health
Complex interventions
Health services research
Sanitation
Adolescent health
Health workers
Implementation research
Randomised controlled trials
Discipline
Epidemiology
Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Mental health
Trachoma
Tuberculosis
Country
The Gambia
India
Kenya
Malawi
Rwanda
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
The impact of common mental disorders among caregivers living with HIV on child cognitive development in Zimbabwe.
2020
AIDS Care: psychological and socio-medical aspects of AIDS-HIV
The effect of community-based support for caregivers on the risk of virological failure in children and adolescents with HIV in Harare, Zimbabwe (ZENITH): an open-label, randomised controlled trial
2020
HIV infection predominantly affecting children in Sindh, Pakistan, 2019: a cross-sectional study of an outbreak.
2019
Lancet Infectious Diseases
CD4+ cell count recovery following initiation of HIV antiretroviral therapy in older childhood and adolescence.
2018
AIDS (London, England)