Miss Julia Pescarini
Assistant Professor
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Stret
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
I have an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy (2010) and a Masters's degree in Parasitology from the University of S茫o Paulo (2012). My passion for infectious disease epidemiology and social inequalities pushed me to specialise in this field. I obtained my PhD in Public Health at the University of S茫o Paulo, having spent some time as a visiting student at LSHTM (2016). Since then, I have been building collaborations between Brazil and the UK through various projects that use administrative data and data linkage to investigate health inequalities and the impact of social protection policies on health. I continue to build my network in Brazil as an associated researcher at The Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS) within the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz, Brazil).
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
I am currently teaching in "Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health (STEPH)", "Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (SME)", "Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases" and "Analysis of Eletronic Health Records". I am the Co-Module Organizer for STEPH. I also supervise MSc and PhD students.
Research
I am interested in understanding how poverty, vulnerability and deprived living conditions, included in the broad context of the social determinants of health, affect the chances of people becoming ill and how we can mitigate that. I have experience working with social determination of health, health inequalities and impact evaluation of social policies on inequalities.
Research Area
Global Health
Health inequalities
Health policy
Impact evaluation
Migration
Social and structural determinants of health
Disease and Health Conditions
Leprosy
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Tropical diseases
Tuberculosis
Emerging infectious diseases
Infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
Country
Brazil
Ecuador
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
World
Selected Publications
2020
BMJ OPEN
2020
BMC medical informatics and decision making
2020
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
2020
Ciencia & saude coletiva
2020
JAMA DERMATOLOGY
2020
LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2019
The Lancet Global Health
2024
Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology
2024
Int J Hyg Environ Health
2024
Public health