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Professor Helen Weiss

MSc DPhil FMedSci

Professor
of Epidemiology, Associate Dean of Research for EPH, and Director of the MRC International Statistics & Epidemiology Group

Room
Room 112

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Helen joined the School in 1997, and is a statistical epidemiologist in the MRC International Statistics & Epidemiology Group. Prior to coming to the School, Helen studied cancer epidemiology, having obtained her PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Oxford, followed by a post-doctoral position at the National Cancer Institute, USA. 

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH)

Teaching

Helen teaches epidemiology and statistics on several study units, and co-organises the Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis which runs each September, with Liz Allen and Clare Gilham.

Research

Helen's research focuses on adolescent health, sexual health, HIV infection and mental health in low-income settings. She has collaborated on many observational and intervention studies, including recently studies of interventions to improve uptake of HIV testing, linkage-to-care and adherence particularly among young people in southern Africa. Work on mental health includes randomised trials to evaluate the effectiveness of lay health-worker delivered counselling interventions for depression, anxiety and alcohol use disorders.

Helen is Principal Investigator of the JGHT-funded MENISCUS trial to evaluate the impact of a school-based menstrual health intervention in Uganda, and is co-lead for the MARCH Centre Adolescent Theme and PI of ht. an

Research Area
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Sexual health
Statistical methods
Systematic reviews
Adolescent health
Alcohol
Evaluation
Global Health
Impact evaluation
Randomised controlled trials
Discipline
Epidemiology
Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
Eye diseases
Herpesviruses
HIV/AIDS
Infectious disease
Mental health
Sexually transmitted disease
Trachoma
Addiction
Cervical cancer
Sexually transmitted infection
Country
Burkina Faso
India
Qatar
Tanzania
Uganda
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Region
Least developed countries: UN classification
Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Comparison of index-linked HIV testing for children and adolescents in health facility and community settings in Zimbabwe: findings from the interventional B-GAP study.
Dziva Chikwari C; Simms V; Kranzer K; Dringus S; Chikodzore R; Sibanda E; Webb K; Engelsmann B; Redzo N; Bandason T
2020
The lancet HIV
Menstrual health intervention and school attendance in Uganda (MENISCUS-2): a pilot intervention study.
Kansiime C; Hytti L; Nalugya R; Nakuya K; Namirembe P; Nakalema S; Neema S; Tanton C; Alezuyo C; Namuli Musoke S
2020
BMJ open
Effect of a differentiated service delivery model on virological failure in adolescents with HIV in Zimbabwe (Zvandiri): a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Mavhu W; Willis N; Mufuka J; Bernays S; Tshuma M; Mangenah C; Maheswaran H; Mangezi W; Apollo T; Araya R
2020
The Lancet Global Health
Effectiveness of a brief lay counsellor-delivered, problem-solving intervention for adolescent mental health problems in urban, low-income schools in India: a randomised controlled trial.
Michelson D; Malik K; Parikh R; Weiss HA; Doyle AM; Bhat B; Sahu R; Chilhate B; Mathur S; Krishna M
2020
Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
Assessing the effectiveness of a comprehensive menstrual health intervention program in Ugandan schools (MENISCUS): process evaluation of a pilot intervention study.
Nalugya R; Tanton C; Hytti L; Kansiime C; Nakuya K; Namirembe P; Nakalema S; Neema S; Alezuyo C; Namuli Musoke S
2020
Pilot and feasibility studies
Delivering the Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression through peers: an individually randomised controlled trial in India.
Fuhr DC; Weobong B; Lazarus A; Vanobberghen F; Weiss HA; Singla DR; Tabana H; Afonso E; De Sa A; D'Souza E
2019
Lancet Psychiatry
Delivering the Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression through volunteer peers: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Pakistan.
Sikander S; Ahmad I; Atif N; Zaidi A; Vanobberghen F; Weiss HA; Nisar A; Tabana H; Ain QU; Bibi A
2019
Lancet Psychiatry
Menstrual health and school absenteeism among adolescent girls in Uganda (MENISCUS): a feasibility study.
Miiro G; Rutakumwa R; Nakiyingi-Miiro J; Nakuya K; Musoke S; Namakula J; Francis S; Torondel B; Gibson LJ; Ross DA
2018
BMC women's health
Smartphone-based screening for visual impairment in Kenyan school children: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
Rono HK; Bastawrous A; Macleod D; Wanjala E; Di Tanna GL; Weiss HA; Burton MJ
2018
The Lancet Global health
Promoting school climate and health outcomes with the SEHER multi-component secondary school intervention in Bihar, India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Shinde S; Weiss HA; Varghese B; Khandeparkar P; Pereira B; Sharma A; Gupta R; Ross DA; Patton G; Patel V
2018
Lancet
The effect of community-based support for caregivers on the risk of virological failure in children and adolescents with HIV in Harare, Zimbabwe (ZENITH): an open-label, randomised controlled trial.
Ferrand RA; Simms V; Dauya E; Bandason T; Mchugh G; Mujuru H; Chonzi P; Busza J; Kranzer K; Munyati S
2017
Lancet Child Adolesc Health
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