Dr Indira Govender
Clinical Research Fellow
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
United Kingdom
I'm a clinical research fellow in the Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases. I'm based fulltime at the Africa Health Research Institute in Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa since October 2017 to date.
Affiliations
Department of Clinical Research
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Research
My research work is largely based in rural primary healthcare services and resource-constrained settings. My primary focus area is population-based research, embedded within a demographic surveillance area, on Tuberculosis epidemiology; infection prevention and control; transmission; monitoring and evaluation of programmatic data; and quality improvement in diagnosis and linkage to care. I have experience in mixed methods research involving: clinical measurements; facility and community-based specimen collection; medical record review; patient and provider interviews; health economic data; direct spatial and ambient measurement; and geospatial mapping. My work involves being part of multidisciplinary teams that include research assistants, healthcare professionals, social scientists, health economists, data scientists and epidemiologists. The range of my experience includes direct clinical service delivery; health service management; non-profit and academic. I鈥檓 involved in advocacy projects and networks related to access to medicines and services, and use my knowledge and experience to advocate for quality improvement in TB services in the rural health context. I have a strong interest in sexual and reproductive, environmental and social justice and how intersectionality and decolonisation can redress the legacies of structural inequality.
Selected Publications
2024
Wellcome open research
2023
Authoritarian Practices and Humanitarian Negotiations
2023
Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE
2023
BMJ Global Health
2022
PLOS Global Public Health
2022
PLOS Global Public Health
2022
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2022
BMJ global health
2022
AHRI Data Repository
2021
BMJ global health