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Dr Sanni Ali

Assistant Professor - Medical Statistics

United Kingdom

I am an assistant Professor in Medical Statistics with a focus in epidemiology and public health evaluation. My primary interest has been in the benefit and harms of medication, devices and intervention; use of secondary data for health research, epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and Malaria in sub-Saharan Africa and in developing and evalauting interventions to address these public health issues.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Teaching

I teach in Analysis of Electronic Medical Records: Causal Inference and Propensity score methods, and the Term 2 module in Evaluation of Public Health Interventions practical. I also teach in Basic Stats for Public Health. I also contribute to tutoring in MSc Public Health.

Research

I specialise in research methodology, evaluation of statistical methods, and quantitative research on evaluation of effectiveness/safety of medications, devices, and interventions; how interventions and policies influence infectious diseases. My research has used a wide array of methods including (cluster) randomised control/clinical trials, systematic reviews, cohort, case-control and cross-sectional studies.

I have use electronic medical records from several countries including USA, Europe (UK, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Denmark) and secondary data from Brazil, Southern and Eastern Africa. I use simulation studies to evaluate statistical/data science methods in epidemiology.
Research Area
Epidemiology
Pharmacoepidemiology
Applied statistics (medical)
Impact evaluation
Evaluation
Implementation science
Vaccines
Pharmacovigilance
Adolescent health
Infectious disease policy
Clinical trials
Clinical research
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted infections
Non-communicable diseases
Tuberculosis
Country
Ethiopia
Ghana
Mali
Burkina Faso
Malawi
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Kenya

Selected Publications

Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Quantitative Bias Analysis.
Brown, JP; Hunnicutt, JN; ALI, MS; BHASKARAN, K; Cole, A; LANGAN, SM; NITSCH, D; RENTSCH, CT; Galwey, NW; Wing, K; Douglas, IJ;
2024
Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
A risk-differentiated, community-led intervention to strengthen uptake and engagement with HIV prevention and care cascades among female sex workers in Zimbabwe (AMETHIST): a cluster randomised trial.
Cowan, FM; Machingura, F; ALI, MS; Chabata, ST; Takaruza, A; Dirawo, J; Makamba, M; Hove, T; Bansi-Matharu, L; Matambanadzo, P; Shahmanesh, M; BUSZA, J; Steen, R; Yekeye, R; Mpofu, A; Mugurungi, O; Phillips, AN; HARGREAVES, JR;
2024
The Lancet. Global health
Quantifying possible bias in clinical and epidemiological studies with quantitative bias analysis: common approaches and limitations.
BROWN, JP; Hunnicutt, JN; ALI, MS; BHASKARAN, K; Cole, A; LANGAN, SM; NITSCH, D; RENTSCH, CT; Galwey, NW; WING, K; DOUGLAS, IJ;
2024
BMJ
Prognostic Factors of COVID-19: An Umbrella Review Endorsed by the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology.
Sarri, G; Liu, W; Zabotka, L; Freitag, A; Claire, R; Wangge, G; Elvidge, J; Dawoud, D; Bennett, D; Wen, X; Li, X; RENTSCH, CT; Uddin, MJ; ALI, MS; Gokhale, M; Déruaz-Luyet, A; Moga, DC; Guo, JJ; Zullo, AR; Patorno, E; Lin, KJ;
2023
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to and utilisation of services for sexual and reproductive health: a scoping review.
VanBenschoten, H; Kuganantham, H; Larsson, EC; Endler, M; Thorson, A; Gemzell-Danielsson, K; HANSON, C; Ganatra, B; ALI, M; Cleeve, A;
2022
BMJ global health
Impact of Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: a natural experiment study using the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort.
PESCARINI, JM; Campbell, D; Amorim, LD; Falcão, IR; Ferreira, AJ F; Allik, M; Shaw, RJ; Malta, DC; ALI, MS; SMEETH, L; Barreto, ML; Leyland, A; Craig, P; Aquino, EM L; Katikireddi, SV;
2022
International journal of epidemiology
Estimation of HIV incidence from analysis of HIV prevalence patterns among female sex workers in Zimbabwe.
ALI, MS; Wit, MD E; Chabata, ST; Magutshwa, S; Musemburi, S; Dirawo, J; RICE, B; PLATT, L; Bansi-Matharu, L; Harriet, J; Mharadze, T; Chiyaka, T; Mushati, P; Mugurungi, O; Yekeye, R; Mpofu, A; Phillips, AN; Cowan, FM; HARGREAVES, JR;
2022
AIDS
Evaluating the effect of Bolsa Familia, Brazil's conditional cash transfer programme, on maternal and child health: A study protocol.
Falcão, IR; Ribeiro-Silva, RD C; Alves, FJ O; Ortelan, N; Silva, NJ; Fiaccone, RL; De Almeida, MF; PESCARINI, JM; Lisboa, CS; Júnior, EP P; PAIXAO, ES; Ferreira, AJ F; Teixeira, CS S; Rocha, AD S; Katikireddi, SV; ALI, MS; Dundas, R; Leyland, A; RODRIGUES, LC; Ichihara, MY; Barreto, ML;
2022
PloS one
Differentiated prevention and care to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition and transmission among female sex workers in Zimbabwe: study protocol for the 'AMETHIST' cluster randomised trial.
Cowan, FM; Machingura, F; Chabata, ST; ALI, MS; BUSZA, J; Steen, R; Desmond, N; Shahmanesh, M; Revill, P; Mpofu, A; Yekeye, R; Mugurungi, O; Phillips, AN; HARGREAVES, JR;
2022
TRIALS
Safety of Oral Bisphosphonates in Moderate-to-Severe Chronic Kidney Disease: A Binational Cohort Analysis.
Robinson, DE; ALI, MS; Pallares, N; Tebé, C; Elhussein, L; Abrahamsen, B; Arden, NK; Ben-Shlomo, Y; Caskey, FJ; Cooper, C; Dedman, D; Delmestri, A; Judge, A; Pérez-Sáez, MJ; Pascual, J; Nogues, X; Diez-Perez, A; Strauss, VY; Javaid, MK; Prieto-Alhambra, D;
2021
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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