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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, Social Epidemiology, Basic Epidemiology, and Analysis and Design of Research Studies. She also supervises PhD and MSc students.

Research

Katherine's research aims to quantify, understand, and address barriers to tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care. As an epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, she focus on generating quantitative evidence to inform policy and practice. Her work to date has centred on two areas: gender and asymptomatic TB.

 

She is the LSHTM Principal Investigator and Consortium 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 International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease working group on Gender Equity in TB. 


She has led work within a broader team to quantify the dynamics of pathways across the spectrum of Mtb infection and TB disease. Her current research extends this work to explore the role of early and asymptomatic disease in areas relevant to TB policy and research, including burden estimation, community screening approaches, and trial design. She is a Co-Investigator on PACE TB MOD, which aims to quantify the potential epidemiological and economic impacts of different TB interventions across settings. 

 

Prior to joining LSHTM, Katherine managed research and surveillance protocols on acute respiratory infections, sexually transmitted infections, and vector-borne and zoonotic infections with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global Disease Detection Centre in Egypt, and she supported HIV voluntary counselling and testing, cohort studies, and clinical trials with Emory University in Rwanda and Zambia. 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
Region
Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

The risk of multidrug- or rifampicin-resistance in males versus females with tuberculosis.
MCQUAID, CF; HORTON, KC; Dean, AS; KNIGHT, GM; WHITE, RG;
2020
The European respiratory journal
Missing men with tuberculosis: the need to address structural influences and implement targeted and multidimensional interventions.
Chikovore, J; Pai, M; HORTON, KC; Daftary, A; Kumwenda, MK; Hart, G; CORBETT, EL;
2020
BMJ Global Health
Systematic neglect of men as a key population in tuberculosis.
HORTON, KC; WHITE, RG; HOUBEN, RM G J;
2018
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
A Bayesian Approach to Understanding Sex Differences in Tuberculosis Disease Burden.
HORTON, KC; SUMNER, T; HOUBEN, RM G J; CORBETT, EL; WHITE, RG;
2018
American journal of epidemiology
The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries
CLARK, RA; MCQUAID, CF; RICHARDS, AS; Bakker, R; Sumner, T; PRYS-JONES, TO; HOUBEN, RM G J; WHITE, RG; HORTON, KC;
2025
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Population level impact of increasing tuberculosis treatment coverage and addressing determinants of risk in men: a modelling study in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda
RICHARDS, AS; Phiri, MD; Nidoi, J; Chakaya, J; MacPherson, P; Kirenga, BJ; Bimba, JS; Ugwu, C; Pola, R; Squire, SB; HORTON, KC;
2025
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Population impact of new TB vaccines may depend on efficacy against infectious asymptomatic TB: a modelling study
TANVIR, H; CLARK, RA; SUMNER, T; HORTON, KC; Prŷs-Jones, TO; Bakker, R; Rade, K; Mave, V; Hatherill, M; Churchyard, G; HOUBEN, RM G J; WHITE, RG;
2025
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Scaling-up symptom-agnostic, community-wide screening toward global tuberculosis elimination: opportunities, challenges, and lessons from history.
Esmail, H; Miller, C; Falzon, D; De Vries, G; Chijioke-Akaniro, O; HORTON, KC; Kohli, M; Dharmapuri Vachaspathi, T; Vo, LN Q; Zaidi, SM A; Squire, SB; Coussens, AK; HOUBEN, RM G J;
2025
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
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