ProfessorHelen Ward
Professor of Public Health
School of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
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- Professor of Public HealthSchool of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
- 020 7594 3303 (Work)
- 311, School of Public Health, White City Campus, United Kingdom
TEACHING INTERESTS
TEACHING
- Director of Education, School of Public Health, 2010 - 2021
- Founding Co-Director, Global Master of Public Health (online degree), 2017 - 2024
- Science Matters: Let’s Talk about Covid19, free online course link including module on community engagement in pandemic response, Feb 2020
- Founding Co-Director, BSc Global Health, 2008 - 2018
PhD STUDENTS (current)
- Melanie Almonte: Influence of COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions on adolescent social and cognitive development: a longitudinal study
- Sarindi Aryasinghe: Addressing ethnic inequities in maternity care through integrated care co-production
- Theo Georgiou Delisle: Implementation of the faecal immunochemical test in the diagnostic pathway for colorectal cancer: a mixed method study
- Joshua Elliott: Data-driven approaches to characterise biological and phenotypic signatures of long COVID
- Fernando Guntoro: Large-scale multi-omics analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Kanchan Parchni: Assessing the relationship between the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) among healthcare workers and the rate of nosocomial COVID-19 infections: a cost-effectiveness analysis for PPE stockpiling for pandemic preparedness (supervisory advisory team)-
PhD Students (completed in last 5 years)
- Flavien Coukan Strategies to overcome barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis access in key underserved populations in England. ARC Northwest London studentship. (2024)
- Matthew Whitaker. Advanced statistical modelling of the COVID-19 epidemic Using classical and computational epidemiology to explore the research ecosystem, acute symptomatology, and post-acute complications of COVID-19 (2023)
- Richard Ma. Improving the effectiveness and equity of contraception provision in general practice. NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship. (2023)
- Vas Papageorgiou. Determinants of health and wellbeing among people living with HIV in the UK: a mixed methods exploration of the impact of structural and social factors (first supervisor. London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership CASE studentship. (2023)
- Lidia Luna Puerta. Patient and public involvement with research in Singapore (2020).
- Adamma Aghaizu. The public health utility of tests for recent infection with HIV: estimating HIV incidence and determining predictors for recent infection (2019).
- Director of Education, School of Public Health, 2010 - 2021
- Founding Co-Director, Global Master of Public Health (online degree), 2017 - 2024
- Science Matters: Let’s Talk about Covid19, free online course link including module on community engagement in pandemic response, Feb 2020
- Founding Co-Director, BSc Global Health, 2008 - 2018
PhD STUDENTS (current)
- Melanie Almonte: Influence of COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions on adolescent social and cognitive development: a longitudinal study
- Sarindi Aryasinghe: Addressing ethnic inequities in maternity care through integrated care co-production
- Theo Georgiou Delisle: Implementation of the faecal immunochemical test in the diagnostic pathway for colorectal cancer: a mixed method study
- Joshua Elliott: Data-driven approaches to characterise biological and phenotypic signatures of long COVID
- Fernando Guntoro: Large-scale multi-omics analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Kanchan Parchni: Assessing the relationship between the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) among healthcare workers and the rate of nosocomial COVID-19 infections: a cost-effectiveness analysis for PPE stockpiling for pandemic preparedness (supervisory advisory team)-
PhD Students (completed in last 5 years)
- Flavien Coukan Strategies to overcome barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis access in key underserved populations in England. ARC Northwest London studentship. (2024)
- Matthew Whitaker. Advanced statistical modelling of the COVID-19 epidemic Using classical and computational epidemiology to explore the research ecosystem, acute symptomatology, and post-acute complications of COVID-19 (2023)
- Richard Ma. Improving the effectiveness and equity of contraception provision in general practice. NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship. (2023)
- Vas Papageorgiou. Determinants of health and wellbeing among people living with HIV in the UK: a mixed methods exploration of the impact of structural and social factors (first supervisor. London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership CASE studentship. (2023)
- Lidia Luna Puerta. Patient and public involvement with research in Singapore (2020).
- Adamma Aghaizu. The public health utility of tests for recent infection with HIV: estimating HIV incidence and determining predictors for recent infection (2019).