Lydia Drumright

Lydia Drumright is a Lecturer within the Centre for Infection Prevention and Management. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health and an MPH in Health Education. Lydia contributes to CIPM and the work-streams through her experience and expertise in classical epidemiology, behavioural assessment, qualitative questionnaire development, partner- and network-level data collection, behavioural health interventions, statistical analysis and sampling methods.  

Lydia's main research interests  include i) incorporating and analysing multiple types of data to understand disease transmission and develop robust interventions; ii)  elucidating the role of social/structural networks in disease transmission and harnessing these networks for prevention; iii) examining dynamics in human dyads to identify disease transmission pathways and develop prevention methods; iv) developing an in-depth understanding of factors influencing risk taking and identifying key areas of intervention; v) developing robust methods for collecting and analysing data on behaviours and  social structure.  She  supports existing research within work-stream 1, "Embedding Infection Prevention: Behavioural Change”, and work-stream 3 "Health Surveillance".  She is currently devising her own research programme within the Centre.

Lydia also supports work-stream 4, capacity building and education.  She delivers teaching in epidemiology and basic statistics on a number of courses and is involved in developing our latest MSc in Infection Prevention.