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Ana Maria Buller PhD

Research Fellow
Ana Maria  is a social scientist with a social psychology background and a particular interest in the intersection of gender, health and development. She holds an MSc on Social Research Methods from the LSE. Before joining the School she worked as a research associate for KCL in a…

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Shelley Lees, PhD

Lecturer
Shelley is an anthropologist who has conducted research on HIV prevention and care, medical research, maternal health and gender-based violence. She has many years of experience of conducting research in the Tanzania. Her most recent work focused on the everyday lives and sexuality of Tanzanian women who participated…

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Dr Petra Brzank, MPH, Dipl.-Soz.

Visiting Research Fellow
Petra Brzank is a German sociologist (1989) and public health scientist (2003) with a focus on social epidemiology. Her areas of expertise relate to gender based violence e.g. health and social impairment, and prevention strategies. She was involved in the evaluation of S.I.G.N…

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Nambusi Kyegombe PhD

Research Fellow Global Health and Development
Nambusi is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a development studies background and a keen interest in the bi-directional relationship between health and poverty (and other social and structural drivers of morbidity) from a global health perspective.  She holds an MSc in Poverty Reduction…

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Rosa Arques

Group Administrator

Rosa has been at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for 10 years, having worked previously in the International Centre for Eye Health, the Tropical Epidemiology Group and the Public HealthFoundation of India-UK consortium.  She is currently the Group Administrator for the Social and Mathematical…

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Joelle Mak MSc

Research Fellow
Joelle joined the Gender Violence & Health Centre after completing her MSc in Reproductive & Sexual Health Research at LSHTM. Prior to joining the School, she has worked in community-based organisations in Belize, Sierra Leone and Namibia on HIV and sexual health projects targetting young people.

She…

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Leslie Kelly

PhD student

Prior to joining LSHTM as a PhD student, Leslie Kelly has worked variously as a Physiotherapist, Military Officer (logistician and infantry commander) in the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). He holds a diploma in Physiotherapy, a diploma in Public Administration (Hons), and Master of Public Health Degree from the…

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Manuela Colombini PhD

Research Fellow, Centre for Population Studies and GVHC Manuela Colombini, originally a political scientist, has been working on sexual and reproductive health over the past nine years. Her interest in violence and health related issues began during her MSc in Gender and Development at the London School of Economics. During…

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Julia Kim MD MSc

Honorary Research Fellow Julia Kim has a background in Internal Medicine from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she completed a Fellowship in International Health and Women’s Health before turning to public health research focusing on gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. For the past ten years, she has…

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Tanya Abramsky MSc

Research FellowTanya is an experienced epidemiologist, who first came to LSHTM to do the MSc Epidemiology in 2002-3, after gaining her first degree in Human Sciences from Oxford. She rejoined the School in September 2004 as a Research Fellow on the Young Lives Project, a longitudinal survey of childhood…

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