Susana completed her MSc in Communicable Disease Epidemiology and a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM. Since then has been working at the London School as an epidemiologist on several international projects primarily aimed at improving maternal and child health in low income countries and community based internventions directed to improving health by bringing life saving health services to hard to reach populations.
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Teaching
Susana is a co-Programme Director to the Distance Learning Epidemiology Master's programme. She has spent several years teaching on and organising courses for both distance learning and intensive MSc Epidemiology and MSc Clinical Trials.
Research
Susana is an epidemiologist with over 20 years experience in maternal and infectious disease epidemiology in low income countries. Seven years of which has been spent living and working sub-Saharan Africa. Her main focus of research is improving access to care to vulnerable and hard to reach communities. She completed her PhD in Zambia and also spent three years at the MRC-The Gambia Unit as trial coordinator to COSMIC - a trial aimed at bringing malaria health services closer to pregnant women living in rural areas in The Gambia, Benin and Burkina Faso. She has continued to work in West Africa and has been involved in the monitoring and evaluating the scaling up of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) in 7 West African countries and co-ordinating an large implementation research project to optimise the delivery and effectiveness of SMC in children in 13 West and Central African countries (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/opt-smc). She continues to work in malaria by supporting studies that evaluate novel vector control tools and strategies.
Selected Publications
