Professor Helen Ward

Helen Ward is Director of Education for the School of Public Health and leads the development and delivery of high quality undergraudate and postgraduate education across the School. She remains actively involved in teaching at all levels, and is course director for the BSc in Global Health and the successful Short Course in Global Health.

She leads a research group working on the epidemiology and control of sexually transmitted infections and HIV, and has recently established the Imperial Centre for Patient Experience Research. She also works as a Consultant in the Clinical Programme in Interventional Public Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust where she is Head of Education.

Watch Helen's inaugural lecture, Hustling for Health.

Recently published: Oxford Handbook of Epidemiology for Clinicians (Helen Ward, Mireille B Toledano, Gavin Shaddick, Bethan Davies, Paul Elliott, Oxford University Press, May 2012)

Research groups

STI research

• Dr Sarah Gerver (Research associate, MRC Population Health Scientist Fellowship)
• Sarah-Jane Anderson (Research assistant, Developing and applying theoretical frameworks in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections)
• Adrian Milne (Research assistant, Developing and applying theoretical frameworks in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections)

PhD students

• Bethan Davies (The contribution of Chlamydia trachomatis to adverse reproductive health and the implications for control policy: a population based retrospective cohort study)
• Tanvi Rai (The impact of migration on HIV risk and the determinants and patterns of HIV-relevant behaviour among migrant workers and their families in India)
• Minttu Ronn (Determinants of epidemic curves: Analysis of gonorrhoea, syphilis and lymphogranuloma venereum in England and Wales)
• Rahma Elmahdi (Potential barriers to HIV testing for high risk heterosexuals in population level test-and-treat initiatives)
• Adamma Aghaizu (The public health utility of tests for recent infection with HIV: estimating HIV incidence and determining predictors for recent infection) Joint supervision with with Dr Valerie Delpech (HPA).
• Rahil Sanatinia (Alcohol misuse in sexual health clinics: examining the opportunities and challenges to intervention). Second supervisor with Prof Mike Crawford.

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Centre for Patient Experience Research

• Sophie Day (Professor of Anthropology)
• Suzanne Parsons (Qualitative research associate)
• Alison Evans (Qualitative research associate)
• Joe Malone (Research assistant)

Teaching

For a list of courses click on tab at the top of the page

Publications

For a  list of publications click on the tab at the top of the page