Dr Katherine Horton
Assistant Professor - TB Modelling Group
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel St
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
Katherine Horton is an infectious disease epidemiologist with experience in research, surveillance, and rapid response, as well as pandemic preparedness and global health security, in settings across Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, South East Asia, and the Western Pacific. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Mathematical Modelling from LSHTM, an MPH in Global Epidemiology from Emory University, and a BSc in Mathematical Sciences from Clemson University.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
Katherine is a co-organiser for distance-learning Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases module and has tutored on Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Basic Epidemiology, Analysis and Design of Research Studies, Epidemiology and Control for Communicable Diseases, and Basic Maths. She also supervises MSc and PhD students.
Research
Katherine's research interests focus on understanding tuberculosis (TB) burden and identifying opportunities to improve access to quality TB prevention and care. She is the LSHTM principal investigator and modelling lead for the LIGHT Consortium, a cross-disciplinary global health research programme which aims to support policy and practice in transforming gendered pathways to health for people with TB in urban settings, and she chairs the Union’s Gender Equity in TB working group. She also contributes to studies of the spectrum of TB disease, with a particular focus on the contribution of early and subclinical TB to disease burden and transmission, and of diagnostic and treatment pathways, particularly through community-wide screening.
Prior to joining LSHTM, Katherine designed and managed research and surveillance on vector-borne and zoonotic infections, acute respiratory infections, and sexually-transmitted infections with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and she supported HIV voluntary counselling and testing, cohort studies, and clinical trials with Emory University. She has also consulted for the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific on pandemic preparedness and rapid response.