Mrs Katherine Snyman
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Public Health & Policy
United Kingdom
I joined LSHTM in 2019 as a health economics PhD student. My Research focuses on economic evaluation of malaria prevention strategies in Uganda. I hold a Master's degree in Global Health and Environment (2013) from the University of California, Berkeley. I have been based in Uganda since 2013, working on malaria and HIV/AIDs clinical trials as a program manager with University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration. My PhD supervisors are Catherine Pitt, Sarah Staedke (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) and Grant Dorsey (UCSF),
Affiliations
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Centres
Malaria Centre
Research
My PhD aims to inform resource-allocation decisions about malaria control in Uganda and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa by generating evidence on the cost, efficiency and equity of innovative vector control strategies. I am current the lead investigator for the economic components of the Uganda Housing Modification Study (CDC/USAID funded) and the LLIN Evaluation in Uganda Project (LLINEUP2, NIH funded) trials. My research interests cover economics of malaria, equity-informative economic evaluation and health technology assessment in low-income settings.
Research Area
Health economics
Economic evaluation
Infectious disease policy
Clinical trials
Vector control
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
HIV/AIDS
Vector borne diseases
Infectious diseases
Country
Uganda
Kenya
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Who pays to treat malaria, and how much? Analysis of the cost of illness, equity, and economic burden of malaria in Uganda.
2024
Health Policy and Planning
HIV Testing and Treatment with the Use of a Community Health Approach in Rural Africa.
2019
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
High rates of viral suppression in adults and children with high CD4+ counts using a streamlined ART delivery model in the SEARCH trial in rural Uganda and Kenya.
2017
JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY
Poor housing construction associated with increased malaria incidence in a cohort of young Ugandan children.
2015
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene