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Professor Charlotte Warren-Gash

FFPH FRCP Edin PhD

Professor
of Epidemiology and Health Data Science

Room
248c

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
020 7927 2796

I qualified in medicine from Edinburgh University and trained in internal medicine in Edinburgh and London hospitals before specialising in public health. I completed an MSc in epidemiology at LSHTM in 2007. My MRC-funded PhD, which focussed on the relationship between influenza and acute cardiovascular events, was awarded by UCL in 2013. After post-doctoral experience as an NIHR clinical lecturer at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, I joined LSHTM on a Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellowship in 2016. 

My research is currently supported by a Wellcome Career Development Award on infections and brain health: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/people-and-projects/grants-awarded/infections-and-brain-health-ageing-populations as well as through grants from Open Philanthropy and the Rosetrees Trust. 

Affiliations

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology

Centres

Centre for Global Chronic Conditions

Teaching

I am joint Departmental Research Degree Co-ordinator for the NCDE department. I am Deputy Chair of the exam board for the professional certificate in pharmacoepidemiology & pharmacovigilance and course organiser for the short course 'Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses of Health Research'. I also teach on various MSc modules including Extended Epidemiology, Study Design and Advanced Research Methods and supervise MSc summer projects and PhD students. 

Research

My research seeks to understand how infections interact with other health conditions, especially neurological and cardiovascular diseases. I lead a programme of research funded by a Wellcome Career Development Award which aims to investigate relationships between infections and key components of brain health (mental health, cognitive health and sensorimotor function) in older age. This uses large, longitudinal datasets from across populations along with robust causal inference methods. Through generating new insights into the infection-brain health relationship across and within different populations, my research aims to inform the design of interventions to improve brain health worldwide. 

I am also leading a large collaborative project funded by Open Philanthropy to enhance the UK Biobank dataset with additional infectious disease data to enable research into infections and non-communicable disease links.

My other research interests include social and environmental influences on health, health inequalities, vaccine epidemiology and phenotyping methods.

Research Area
Ageing
Health outcomes
Primary care
Public health
Systematic reviews
Vaccines
Viruses
Immunisation
Older people's health
Discipline
Medicine
Country
Denmark
United Kingdom
Hong Kong
India
Mexico
United States of America

Selected Publications

Risk of herpes zoster after exposure to varicella to explore the exogenous boosting hypothesis: self controlled case series study using UK electronic healthcare data.
Forbes H; Douglas I; Finn A; Breuer J; Bhaskaran K; Smeeth L; Packer S; Langan SM; Mansfield KE; Marlow R
2020
BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
Human herpesvirus infections and dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Warren-Gash C; Forbes HJ; Williamson E; Breuer J; Hayward AC; Mavrodaris A; Ridha BH; Rossor MN; Thomas SL; Smeeth L
2019
Scientific reports
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