Lars Åke Persson MD PhD. Professor of Public Health Evaluation at LSHTM since 2016. Research and teaching in collaborative projects in Ethiopia. Main focus on evaluation of maternal and child health interventions combined with research capacity development. Previously professor of International Child Health at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Director of Public Health Sciences, icddrb, Bangladesh Paediatrician, epidemiologist with 40 year’s experience of global child health including longer periods of work in Tanzania, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ethiopia.
Affiliations
Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Centres
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Teaching
Extensive teaching experiences on all academic levels in paediatrics and child health, epidemiology, implementation research and community-based trials.
Research
Has organized bilateral research collaboration including PhD training with institutions in Somalia, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, where doctoral students develop their own project within larger, high-quality research program. Experience of initiating Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) in Nicaragua and Vietnam, and responsible for HDSS in Matlab, Bangladesh during a 4-year period. Focus in research on community-based interventions for improved infant and child survival and nutrition interventions for improved maternal and child health and survival. Some 260 peer-reviewed publications.
Selected Publications
Effective coverage of antenatal care services in Ethiopia: a population-based cross-sectional study.
2024
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
A facilitated social innovation: stakeholder groups using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles for perinatal health across levels of the health system in Cao Bang province, Vietnam.
2023
Implementation science communications
Quality of sick child management by health extension workers: role of a complex improvement intervention.
2023
BMC health services research
Early Life Environmental Exposure to Cadmium, Lead, and Arsenic and Age at Menarche: A Longitudinal Mother-Child Cohort Study in Bangladesh.
2023
Environmental health perspectives
