Dr Lucy Tusting

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United Kingdom

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+44 (0)207 927 2133

Lucy is an epidemiologist with a background in the control of infectious diseases. She is an educator on the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s distance learning MSc programme. She was Associate Professor in the Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 2018 to 2024 where she held a research fellowship from the UK's Medical Research Council. She was previously based at the University of Oxford and was a Visiting Scientist at Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania. She has a master’s degree and doctorate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control

Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Malaria Centre

Research

Research Area

Epidemiology

GIS/Spatial analysis

Medical entomology

Urbanisation

Child health

Statistical methods

Systematic reviews

Health policy

Vector control

Environmental health

Disease and Health Conditions

Malaria

Vector borne diseases

Infectious diseases

Malnutrition

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Ethnicity and anthropometric deficits in children: A cross-sectional analysis of national survey data from 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

TUSTING, LS; Mishra, S; Gibson, HS; Lindsay, SW; Weiss, DJ; Flaxman, S; Bhatt, S;

2024

PLOS global public health

Respiratory rates among rural Gambian children: a community-based cohort study.

Mogeni, P; Amima, S; Gunther, J; Pinder, M; TUSTING, LS; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Cousens, S; Lindsay, SW; BRADLEY, J;

2024

Scientific reports

Rice farmers' knowledge, attitudes and practices towards mosquitoes in irrigation schemes in Côte d'Ivoire: a qualitative study.

CHAN, K; Konan, KA-C; Doudou, DT; Kouadio, GB; LINES, J; AUNGER, R; N'GUESSAN, R; TUSTING, LS;

2023

Malaria journal

The control of malaria vectors in rice fields: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

CHAN, K; BOTTOMLEY, C; Saito, K; LINES, J; TUSTING, LS;

2022

Scientific Reports

Cooking outdoors or with cleaner fuels does not increase malarial risk in children under 5 years: a cross-sectional study of 17 sub-Saharan African countries.

Woolley, KE; Bartington, SE; Pope, FD; Greenfield, SM; TUSTING, LS; Price, MJ; Thomas, GN;

2022

Malaria journal

Malaria transmission and prevalence in rice-growing versus non-rice-growing villages in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

CHAN, K; TUSTING, LS; BOTTOMLEY, C; Saito, K; Djouaka, R; LINES, J;

2022

The Lancet Planetary Health

House design and risk of malaria, acute respiratory infection and gastrointestinal illness in Uganda: A cohort study.

Musiime, AK; Krezanoski, PJ; Smith, DL; Kilama, M; Conrad, MD; Otto, G; Kyagamba, P; Asiimwe, J; Rek, J; Nankabirwa, JI; Arinaitwe, E; Akol, AM; Kamya, MR; STAEDKE, SG; DRAKELEY, C; Bousema, T; Lindsay, SW; Dorsey, G; TUSTING, LS;

2022

PLOS Global Public Health

Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Conflicts, synergies, and pathways forward

Bendixen, M; Iversen, LL; Best, J; Franks, DM; Hackney, CR; Latrubesse, EM; TUSTING, LS;

2021

One Earth

Assessing the health benefits of development interventions.

TUSTING, LS; CAIRNCROSS, S; Ludolph, R; Velayudhan, R; Wilson, AL; Lindsay, SW;

2021

BMJ Global Health

Prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminth infections of children in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-18: a geospatial analysis.

SARTORIUS, B; Cano, J; SIMPSON, H; TUSTING, LS; Marczak, LB; Miller-Petrie, MK; Kinvi, B; Zoure, H; Mwinzi, P; Hay, SI; Rebollo, M; PULLAN, RL;