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Emma Slaymaker

Associate Professor

Room
Room 144

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
+44 207 299 4687

Emma has a background in communicable disease epidemiology but has spent so long working with demographers that the disciplinary boundaries are starting to blur.  She has an undergraduate degree in Human Sciences from Oxford and completed both her MSc and PhD at LSHTM. 

She works in the Population Studies Group and is a member of the Centre for Statistical Methods.  She works with the ALPHA network and acts as liaison between that group and the HIV modelling consortium based at Imperial College, London.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Statistical Methodology

Teaching

Emma is one of the organisers of Research Design and Analysis and teaches on Statistics for Epidemiologists (STEPH) and Analysing Survey and Population Data.

She is an MSc tutor for both Demography and Health (DH) and Reproductive and Sexual Health Research (RSHR) and supervises research degree students.

Together with Milly Marston she runs a roughly annual short course at the School called 'Advanced Stata: programming and other techniques to make your life easier'.

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Research

Emma's research is focused on the epidemiology and demographic impacts of HIV in Africa.  She has a longstanding interest in using large scale survey data to understand sexual behaviour patterns and how these are best summarised and used to describe the potential for the spread of HIV and other STI.

Her recent work has been with the ALPHA network of African HIV longitudinal studies investigating patterns of HIV mortality following the introduction of ART and trends and risk factors for HIV incidence.

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Research Area
Sexual health
Social and structural determinants of health
Surveillance
Behaviour change
Discipline
Demography
Epidemiology
Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted infection
Country
Tanzania
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
World

Selected Publications

Trends in sexual activity and demand for and use of modern contraceptive methods in 74 countries: a retrospective analysis of nationally representative surveys.
Slaymaker E; Scott RH; Palmer MJ; Palla L; Marston M; Gonsalves L; Say L; Wellings K
2020
The Lancet Global Health
Recent levels and trends in HIV incidence rates among adolescent girls and young women in ten high-prevalence African countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Birdthistle I; Tanton C; Tomita A; de Graaf K; Schaffnit SB; Tanser F; Slaymaker E
2019
The Lancet Global Health
How have ART treatment programmes changed the patterns of excess mortality in people living with HIV? Estimates from four countries in East and Southern Africa.
Slaymaker E; Todd J; Marston M; Calvert C; Michael D; Nakiyingi-Miiro J; Crampin A; Lutalo T; Herbst K; Zaba B
2014
Global health action
Sexual behaviour in context: a global perspective.
Wellings K; Collumbien M; Slaymaker E; Singh S; Hodges Z; Patel D; Bajos N
2006
Lancet
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