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Dr Joe Tucker

MD PhD AM

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LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Joseph D. Tucker, MD, PhD, AM is an infectious diseases physician with a special interest in using crowdsourcing to improve health. Crowdsourcing has a group of diverse individuals solve a problem and then share solutions with the public. He is a Professor of Global Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor of Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill, Director of UNC Project-China, and Chairman of SESH Global (SESH). He has published 461 research manuscripts and led grants totalling 24M USD. He currently leads one NIAID R01 grant, one NCI R01 grant, one NIAID R25 grant, one NICHD UH3 grant, and one NIAID K24 grant. He has contributed to several World Health Organization guidelines. 

Affiliations

Department of Clinical Research
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Teaching

Dr. Tucker has mentored 124 undergraduates, medical students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. He mentors trainees undertaking crowdsourcing research supported by the Rhodes Scholarship, the NIH Fogarty Center, Doris Duke, the Fulbright, and the Harvard Institute for Global Health. He leads the UNC-South China STD Research Training Center. He also serves on the postdoctoral fellowship committee at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Research

Dr. Tucker has a special interest in research on social innovation and participatory methods. He is part of the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI), a global network of research hubs that organize social innovation research studies. This research has led to crowdsourcing open calls in China, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand.

Research Area
Clinical guidelines
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Diagnostics
Drug resistance
Infectious disease policy
Public health
Adolescent health
Behaviour change
Capacity strengthening
Global Health
Inequalities
Mixed methods
Mobile technologies
Implementation research
Discipline
Anthropology
Demography
Development studies
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Medicine
Operational research
Social Sciences
Social Policy
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Hepatitis
Sexually transmitted infection
Tropical diseases
Country
China
Thailand
Vietnam
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Assessment of a Crowdsourcing Open Call for Approaches to University Community Engagement and Strategic Planning During COVID-19.
Day S; Li C; Hlatshwako TG; Abu-Hijleh F; Han L; Deitelzweig C; Bayus B; Ramaswamy R; Tang W; Tucker JD
2021
JAMA network open
Social innovation in health: a critical but overlooked component of the COVID-19 pandemic response
Moscibrodzki P; Li J; Peeling RW; Halpaap B; Cuervo LG; Blas MM; Juban N; Labarda M; Tang W; Tucker JD
2021
BMJ Innovations
How kindness can be contagious in healthcare.
Tang W; Wu D; Yang F; Wang C; Gong W; Gray K; Tucker JD
2021
Nature medicine
Social innovation in global health: sparking location action.
Halpaap BM; Tucker JD; Mathanga D; Juban N; Awor P; Saravia NG; Han L; de Villiers K; Kitamura M; Cuervo LG
2020
The Lancet. Global Health
Pay-it-forward gonorrhoea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a randomised controlled trial.
Yang F; Zhang TP; Tang W; Ong JJ; Alexander M; Forastiere L; Kumar N; Li KT; Zou F; Yang L
2020
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016.
Deeks SG; Lewin SR; Ross AL; Ananworanich J; Benkirane M; Cannon P; Chomont N; Douek D; Lifson JD; Lo Y-R
2016
Nature medicine
Gay mobile apps and the evolving virtual risk environment: a cross-sectional online survey among men who have sex with men in China.
Tang W; Best J; Zhang Y; Liu F-Y; Tso LS; Huang S; Yang B; Wei C; Tucker JD
2016
Sexually transmitted infections
Rebuilding patient-physician trust in China.
Tucker JD; Wong B; Nie J-B; Kleinman A; Patient-Physician Trust Team
2016
Lancet (London, England)
Interventions to optimise the care continuum for chronic viral hepatitis: a systematic review and meta-analyses.
Zhou K; Fitzpatrick T; Walsh N; Kim JY; Chou R; Lackey M; Scott J; Lo Y-R; Tucker JD
2016
The Lancet infectious diseases
Accelerating worldwide syphilis screening through rapid testing: a systematic review.
Tucker JD; Bu J; Brown LB; Yin Y-P; Chen X-S; Cohen MS
2010
The Lancet. Infectious diseases
Syphilis and social upheaval in China.
Tucker JD; Chen X-S; Peeling RW
2010
The New England journal of medicine
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