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Kenya

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Public Health Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Profile Summary

My current research focuses both on the epidemiology of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related disease and the design and evaluation of interventions to control these diseases. I am currently based in Kenya working on a multi-country study of foodborne disease in young children living in informal urban settlements across Kenya and Mozambique, with the aim of developing a large-scale intervention to reduce the burden of these diseases. Prior to this, I was leading the design and evaluation of a novel handwashing intervention for internally-displaced children in Myanmar and Northern Iraq and I also support the design of research tools for the evaluation of a number of other WASH projects. I am well versed in academic writing and have published in a various peer-reviewed journals both in the field of public health and in molecular biology. I am also particularly interested in mechanisms of health behaviour change among children, a topic which forms part of my ongoing PhD work.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Public Health
• ★ Research Methodology
• ☆ Epidemiology
• ☆ Global Health
• ☆ Research
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

Visiting Scientist

International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya

January 2019 - Present

Research Fellow

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

January 2016 - Present

Research Consultant

Save the Children

January 2015 - August 2015

Research Scientist

King's College London

January 2012 - September 2014

Scientific Officer

Paterson Institute of Cancer Resarch

January 2010 - January 2012

Genotyping Scientist

Qiagen

January 2009 - January 2010

Product Development Scientist

Qiagen

January 2006 - January 2008

Education

MSc Public Health

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

September 2014 - September 2015

BSc Biomedical Science

University of Manchester

September 2003 - September 2006

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Julie Watson, Florian Fischer, Oliver Cumming, Robert Aunger, Claudio Deola, Rachel P. Chase, Robert Dreibelbis (2020). Child handwashing in an internally displaced persons camp in Northern Iraq: A qualitative multi-method exploration of motivational drivers and other handwashing determinants . PLOS ONE.

(2019). A systematic review and meta-analysis in the effectiveness of mobile phone interventions used to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy in HIV infection . BMC Public Health.

Julie Watson, Lauren D'Mello-Guyett, Erin Flynn, Jane Falconer, Joanna Esteves-Mills, Alain Prual, Paul Hunter, Benedetta Allegranzi, Maggie Montgomery, Oliver Cumming(2019). Interventions to improve water supply and quality, sanitation and handwashing facilities in healthcare facilities, and their effect on healthcare-associated infections in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and supplementary scoping review . {BMJ} Global Health. 4. (4). p. e001632. {BMJ}

(2019). Interventions to improve water supply and quality, sanitation and handwashing facilities in healthcare facilities, and their effect on healthcare-associated infections in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and supplementary scoping review . BMJ Global Health.

(2019). Child's play: Harnessing play and curiosity motives to improve child handwashing in a humanitarian setting . International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health.

(2017). Does targeting children with hygiene promotion messages work? The effect of handwashing promotion targeted at children, on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infections and behaviour change, in low- and middle-income countries . Tropical Medicine & International Health.

(2017). Anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies attenuate the monocyte response to LPS and shape macrophage development . JCI Insight.

(2015). Stress-activated Dendritic Cells (DC) Induce Dual Interleukin (IL)-15- and IL1β-mediated Pathways, Which May Elicit CD4+Memory T Cells and Interferon (IFN)-stimulated Genes . Journal of Biological Chemistry.

(2015). Complement Regulates Nutrient Influx and Metabolic Reprogramming during Th1 Cell Responses . Immunity.

(2008). A new rapid and sensitive assay for detecting the T315I BCR-ABL kinase domain mutation in chronic myeloid leukaemia . Journal of Clinical Pathology.