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Ms Charlotte Ward

Research Fellow in Health Economics

United Kingdom

I have a varied research background including implementation research to improve malaria service delivery; field trials to support introduction of pneumonia diagnostic aids for community health workers and epidemiological studies to assess socio-demographic predictors of national vaccine coverage in England. My first degree was in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and I have an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. After my MSc, I gained experience at Public Health England and then worked in the research team at the iNGO Malaria Consortium, during which time I worked with UN bodies, National Malaria Control Progrmmes and philanthropic donors to evaluate community-based interventions to tackle key childhood diseases. I also supported initiatives to strengthen research capacity across the organisation.

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Centre for Evaluation
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I teach on the Basic Statistics for Public Health and Policy module.

Research

I work on the IMPRESS project which examines whether enhanced hospital management practices can drive improvements in newborn survival and the quality of clinical care in Malawi. This multi-component research project includes formative research, observational research, the development of a theory of a change to inform the co-design of an intervention, a cluster randomized controlled trial, a process evaluation, and an economic evaluation.

Research Area
Complex interventions
Health systems
Epidemiology
Evaluation
Country
Burkina Faso
Chad
Ethiopia
Malawi
Nepal
Nigeria
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Usability and acceptability of a multimodal respiratory rate and pulse oximeter device in case management of children with symptoms of pneumonia: A cross-sectional study in Ethiopia.
Baker, K; WARD, C; Maurel, A; De Cola, MA; Smith, H; Getachew, D; Habte, T; McWhorter, C; LaBarre, P; Karlstrom, J; Ameha, A; Tariku, A; Black, J; Bassat, Q; Källander, K;
2020
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
Determining the Agreement Between an Automated Respiratory Rate Counter and a Reference Standard for Detecting Symptoms of Pneumonia in Children: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study in Ethiopia.
WARD, C; Baker, K; MARKS, S; Getachew, D; Habte, T; McWhorter, C; Labarre, P; Howard-Brand, J; Miller, NP; Tarekegn, H; Deribessa, SJ; Petzold, M; Kallander, K;
2020
JMIR research protocols
Automated Respiratory Rate Counter to Assess Children for Symptoms of Pneumonia: Protocol for Cross-Sectional Usability and Acceptability Studies in Ethiopia and Nepal.
Baker, K; Maurel, A; WARD, C; Getachew, D; Habte, T; McWhorter, C; LaBarre, P; Karlström, J; Petzold, M; Källander, K;
2020
JMIR research protocols
Usability and acceptability of an automated respiratory rate counter to assess childhood pneumonia in Nepal.
Källander, K; WARD, C; Smith, H; Bhattarai, R; Kc, A; Timsina, D; Lamichhane, B; Maurel, A; Ram Shrestha, P; Baral, S; McWhorter, C; LaBarre, P; De Cola, MA; Baker, K;
2019
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
Usability and acceptability of an automated respiratory rate counter to assess children for symptoms of pneumonia: A cross-sectional study in Ethiopia.
WARD, C; Baker, K; Smith, H; Maurel, A; Getachew, D; Habte, T; McWhorter, C; LaBarre, P; Karlstrom, J; Black, J; Bassat, Q; Ameha, A; Tariku, A; Petzold, M; Källander, K;
2019
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
Predictors of coverage of the national maternal pertussis and infant rotavirus vaccination programmes in England.
Byrne, L; WARD, C; White, JM; Amirthalingam, G; Edelstein, M;
2017
Epidemiology and infection
Sociodemographic predictors of variation in coverage of the national shingles vaccination programme in England, 2014/15.
WARD, C; Byrne, L; White, JM; Amirthalingam, G; Tiley, K; Edelstein, M;
2017
Vaccine
Effectiveness and impact of a reduced infant schedule of 4CMenB vaccine against group B meningococcal disease in England: a national observational cohort study.
Parikh, SR; Andrews, NJ; Beebeejaun, K; Campbell, H; Ribeiro, S; WARD, C; White, JM; Borrow, R; Ramsay, ME; Ladhani, SN;
2016
Lancet (London, England)
Optimizing the role of 'lead mothers' in seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaigns: formative research in Kano State, northern Nigeria.
Okereke, E; Smith, H; Oguoma, C; ORESANYA, O; MAXWELL, K; Anikwe, C; Osuji, LC; Ogazi, O; Musa, J; Rajab, A; Shekarau, E; Okoh, F; Viganò, E; Donovan, L; WARD, C; Baker, K;
2023
Malaria journal
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