Dr Christopher Smith

MRCP MRCGP MSc PhD DTM&H

Associate Professor

Room

5th Floor

Graduate School of Tropical Medicine & Global Health
Nagasaki University
Japan

Tel.

07974562199

Dr Chris Smith has been working at LSHTM since 2014. His position is split between the Department of Clinical Research at LSHTM and the graduate school of Tropical Medicine and Global Health (TMGH) at Nagasaki University. His main area of research is in the field of digital health interventions to support sexual and reproductive health.

He obtained his medical degree from Cardiff University and an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries (PHDC) from LSHTM in 2011.

He completed his PhD titled 'Increasing contraception use with mobile phone-based interventions' at LSHTM in 2017 which included a systemic review of mHealth interventions for contraception and the MObile Technology for Improved Family Planning (MOTIF) trial in partnership with Marie Stopes International in Cambodia.

He held a Medical Research Council (MRC) Population Scientist Fellowship at LSHTM from 2014 to 2018 and a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) In-Practice Fellowship based at Imperial College London during 2010-12.

He works as a primary care medical doctor (GP) in London and has worked on an NHS project with Maddox Jolie-Pitt foundation in Cambodia and with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Uganda.

Affiliations

Department of Clinical Research

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Department of Population Health

Centres

Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH)

Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Teaching

Chris organises the Tropical Medicine 1 module at the School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health (TMGH) in Nagasaki teaches on epidemiology, reproductive health and tropical medicine modules.

Previously he co-organised the Family Planning programmes module (2401) at LSHTM.

Research

Interventions delivered by mobile phone (digital/mHealth); sexual and reproductive health; primary care; health partnerships.

Chris is PI on a project to develop an intervention to support reproductive health in Cambodia together with collaborators at SOAS, Kings College London and Marie Stopes International, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

He is collaborating on a project with Oxford University on contraceptive side-effects in Ethiopia and supporting various infectious diseases projects in Vietnam, Nepal and the Philippines.

Selected publications can be accessed here in addition to the list below.

Research Area

Clinical care

Complex interventions

Primary care

Behaviour change

Mobile technologies

Randomised controlled trials

Reproductive health

Discipline

Epidemiology

Medicine

Operational research

Country

United Kingdom

Cambodia

Region

East Asia & Pacific (developing only)

Selected Publications

Impact of pyrazinamide resistance on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan.

Kuhlin, J. ; Smith, C. ; Khaemraev, A. ; Tigay, Z. ; Parpieva, N. ; Tillyashaykhov, M. ; Achar, J. ; Hajek, J. ; Greig, J. ; du Cros, P. ; Moore, D. ;

2018

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis

Women's views and experiences of a mobile phone-based intervention to support post-abortion contraception in Cambodia.

Smith, C. ; Ly, S. ; Uk, V. ; Warnock, R. ; Free, C. ;

2017

Reprod Health

Using automated voice messages linked to telephone counselling to increase post-menstrual regulation contraceptive uptake and continuation in Bangladesh: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Reiss, K. ; Andersen, K. ; Barnard, S. ; Ngo, T.D. ; Biswas, K. ; Smith, C. ; Carpenter, J. ; Church, K. ; Nuremowla, S. ; Pearson, E. ;

2017

BMC Public Health

Assessing loss to follow-up in the MObile Technology for Improved Family Planning (MOTIF) randomised controlled trial.

Smith, C. ; Jarvis, C. ; Free, C. ;