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
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Centres
TB Centre
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鈥檚 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.
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.
Disease and Health Conditions
Tuberculosis
Influenza
HIV/AIDS
Zoonoses
Respiratory diseases
Country
Malawi
Nigeria
Kenya
Uganda
Vietnam
Egypt
Djibouti
Rwanda
Zambia
Region
Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
2020
The European respiratory journal
2020
BMJ Global Health
2020
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2018
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2018
American journal of epidemiology
2016
PLoS medicine
2024
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2024
The Journal of infectious diseases
2024
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2024
PloS one