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Richard Coker, Professor
Richard Coker trained in medicine at St. Mary´s Hospital, London and, in 1994, became consultant physician to the hospital and senior lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine. His interests include communicable diseases, in particular sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and tuberculosis. In 1997, as a Harkness Fellow, he spent a year at Columbia School of Public Health in New York, USA, researching the causes and responses to the epidemic of tuberculosis that city witnessed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His book, From Chaos to Coercion: detention and the control of tuberculosis, was one of the results from this work. He subsequently worked as a Wellcome Research Associate researching public health legislative responses to infectious disease threats. In recent years he has worked in India, Russia, Ukraine, Tajikistan, and SE Asia on public health responses to support control of infectious diseases. He joined the School in 1999 as a Research Fellow before becoming Senior Lecturer in 2001, Reader in 2005, and Professor of Public Health in 2009.
He currently heads the Communicable Diseases Policy Research Group (CDPRG) which provides a focus of expertise on the diverse public health problems associated with communicable disease control internationally. Notable areas of research which have received considerable attention have included health systems analysis, analysis of strategic planning, law as a tool to support communicable disease control, policy analysis, and development and ranking of indicators to assess performance.
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Piya Hanvoravongchai, Lecturer
Piya Hanvoravongchai is Overseas Lecturer in Health Policy at the CDPRG. Piya?s interest expands the areas of health systems, health economics, international health policy, and global development. He received his M.D. from Mahidol University, his M.Sc. in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his S.D. from Harvard School of Public Health.
Piya has over 12 years of work experience in the public health sector. He started his career as a clinician and later a hospital director at a rural hospital in Thailand. His interest then expanded to health policy and health systems research with previous professional experiences as researcher at the Health Systems Research Institute and research fellow at the International Health Policy Programme in Thailand, research scientist at the World Health Organization in Switzerland and research associate at Harvard University in the United States of America. Piya was also the Co-ordinator of the Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) from 2006-2008.
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Sandra Mounier-Jack, Lecturer
I am a Lecturer at the Department of Public Health and Policy, whose current research projects include evaluations of health policy on the control of communicable diseases including pandemic flu, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
Before joining the LSHTM, I was a project officer for the European Commission and was heading the health cooperation programme of the EU in the Russian Federation. I developed monitored and evaluated major technical assistance projects on communicable diseases control in the FSU.
I am currently an advisor to the UK House of Lords for a committee on the work of intergovernmental organizations in the control of infectious diseases. I am also advising the UK government´s Cabinet Office.
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Alexandra Conseil, Research Fellow
I joined the Department of Global Health and Development in August 2007 as Research Fellow in the Communicable Diseases Policy Research Group. I post-graduated with an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from LSHTM (2005) and an MSc in International Health Management from Imperial College Business School (2006). Prior to my postgraduate studies, I worked as a nurse/project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières on communicable disease control programmes in DRC, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Chad (2003-2004). I obtained my BScN from Universite Laval in 2001 (Quebec, Canada).
My primary and current research focus lies at the legal/public health interface in responses to pandemic influenza in Europe ( www.ephln.org). Past research activities include the analysis of EU/EEA national governments' guidance on business continuity planning for pandemic influenza (2007/8, funded by Roche), the evaluation of more than 50 African and European national strategic plans for pandemic influenza (2008, funded by UN-PIC), support for the 4th global progress report on responses to avian influenza (2008, funded by UNSIC), and the development of a case study on integration of HIV and TB into the mainstream health system in Viet Nam (2008/9, funded by the World Bank).
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James Rudge, Research Fellow
James joined CDPRG as an Overseas Research Fellow in June 2009. Based in Bangkok, he is currently involved in a number of projects including a resource gap analysis for pandemic preparedness in South East Asia (AsiaFluCap), and case studies on the interactions and integration between Global Fund-supported programmes and health systems.
Before joining CDPRG, James completed his PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London, researching the zoonotic transmission and population genetics of schistosomiasis in China and the Philippines. Prior to this he gained a BSc in Microbiology and MSc in Modern Epidemiology, also at Imperial. He has fieldwork experience in both parasitological and health systems research in several countries in Asia and Africa, and experience with mathematical modelling and molecular techniques. His interests include using a multi-disciplinary approach to address policy-relevant research questions concerning the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases, particularly zoonoses. | |
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Julie Balen, Research Fellow
Julie joined CDPRG as an Overseas Research Fellow in April 2010. Based in Bangkok, she is involved in a number of projects including the analysis and synthesis of case studies evaluating Global Fund-supported TB and HIV control programme integration and health systems in Southeast Asia.
Before joining CDPRG, Julie was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the RSIS Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Julie completed her PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Queensland, Australia (2009), researching the determinants of infections, co-infections and morbidity associated with schistosomiasis and helminthiases in Hunan province, China. Julie also spent 6 months as a Research Assistant at the Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, and prior to that gained a BSc in Biology at Imperial College London, U.K., in 2004. She has fieldwork experience in Asia and West Africa, and has conducted policy-relevant research across numerous ASEAN member states. Her interests include using a multi-disciplinary approach to address operational research questions concerning health equity-effectiveness and health system strengthening, within developing and transitional country contexts. | |
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Marco Liverani, Research Fellow
I joined the Health Policy Unit as Research Fellow in the Communicable Diseases Policy Research Group in March 2010. I have a background in social sciences with a focus on political economy of healthcare and biomedicine.
I am currently conducting a research study on regional mechanisms and infectious diseases in Europe and Asia, funded by the the ASEF Network for Public Health. | |
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Joia de Sa, Research Fellow
I joined HPU in August 2008 as Overseas Research Fellow in Health Policy, based in Bangkok. Prior to joining HPU, I trained in medicine at Cambridge University and UCL and gained a degree in Social Anthropology. I have worked for 2 years in the NHS in general medicine.
Previously, I have also been involved in research on the impact of school fruit and vegetable schemes and have helped advise the European Commission DG-AGRI on subsequent development of new policy. I have also conducted research to develop a framework for assessing unmet need in HIV testing, treatment and care in Europe. | |
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Nicola Lord, Project Administrator
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Wasamon Sabaiwan, Research Administrator
My name is Wasamon Sabaiwan (Tarn). I have been working with CDPRG since March 1, 2009 as a research administrator.
Before joining CDPRG team, I was a Catering Sales Coordinator in the 5-star hotel in Bangkok almost 2 years.
Being one of the CDPRG team is my good oppotunity to gain knowledge regarding health policy that I never know before.
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