EMMA HARDING-ESCH – (LSHTM; TEAM LEAD)
emma.harding-esch@lshtm.ac.uk

Dr Emma Harding-Esch is an epidemiologist, with a focus on diagnostics and prevalence surveys for STIs and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). She is Associate Professor at LSHTM and Chief Scientist for Tropical Data (https://www.tropicaldata.org). She is also co-director of LSHTM’s STI Research Interest Group (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/stirig) and WHO Collaborating Centre for STIs (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/whocc-sti). Previously, she was Senior Trials Coordinator for the eSTI2 Consortium based at Public Health England, and Programme Manager and Epidemiology Lead for the Applied Diagnostic Research and Evaluation Unit, St George’s University of London.

CONSTANCE MACKWORTH-YOUNG – (LSHTM)
constance.mackworth-young1@lshtm.ac.uk

Assistant Professor (LSHTM) and Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI). I am a Medical Anthropologist, with a research focus on young people, sexual and reproductive health, and participatory qualitative methodologies. I work for both LSHTM and the BRTI, and am happy to now be based in Zimbabwe, as the social science lead of the Zimbabwe-LSHTM Research Partnership, having previously worked in the UK and Zambia. I am leading the qualitative work on the GIFT project, investigating user experience of the GIFT device and of the GIFT device as integrated into STI management. It’s wonderful to be part of an interdisciplinary team working on this exciting project.

BICH-TRAM HUYNH – (IP)
bich-tram.huynh@pasteur.fr

Bich-Tram HUYNH, MD, PhD, is a medical epidemiologist (MD in 2006 at Paris V, and PhD from Paris 6 in 2011). She is a researcher at IP in Paris.Her interests lie in applied public health research and her main research topics focus on infectious diseases and maternal and child health in low-income countries.  Before joining the IP, she worked on the consequences of malaria during pregnancy  in Sub-saharan Africa. Since she joined the IP in 2012, her focus has been on neonatal infections and antibiotic resistance both in Asia and Africa to better understand the transmission of resistant bacteria.

CAMILLE FORTAS – (IP)
camille.fortas@pasteur.fr

Camille joined the GIFT project in September 2021 as a PhD student at Institut Pasteur. Prior to coming to Institut Pasteur in Paris, she obtained an MPH and an MSc in Medical statisitics. Camille also worked as a statistical epidemiologist at Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, Epicentre/Doctors without Borders (MSF), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Public Health France. Her research experience focused on infectious diseases and maternal health in low and middle-income countries. In the GIFT project she will develop a decision tree to build an algorithm for the management of STIs including the use of the GIFT device (WP4).

SARAH BERNAYS – (LSHTM)
sarah.bernays@sydney.edu.au

Trained as an anthropologist, Sarah leads a qualitative research programme on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in resource-constrained settings. Her research informs the design and implantation of community-based prevention and treatment programmes for HIV and other STIs, with a particular focus on the role of mental health in shaping risk and health service engagement. Much of her work is embedded within international trials to help to understand the ‘why’ behind the success or failure of interventions in different contexts. She has a split post between LSHTM and the University of Sydney.   

AYAKO HONDA – (HU)
ayako.honda@r.hit-u.ac.jp

Ayako Honda, of the Research Center for Health Policy and Economics, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, HU, has extensive experience in health systems research in Africa and Asia. She previously worked in the UCT’s Health Economics Unit and has collaborated with African and Asian researchers to address a range of health systems issues in LMIC settings. Ayako is interested in the use of discrete choice experiment to understand people’s values and preferences for subsequent reflection in health policy. She holds a PhD in health economics from the LSHTM.

EDINA SINANOVIC – (UCT)
edina.sinanovic@uct.ac.za

Edina Sinanovic, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the UCT where she serves as Head of the Health Economics Division. Her research falls within three areas: economic evaluation of alternative diagnostic and treatment healthcare interventions, especially in relation to tuberculosis and HIV;  the economics of vaccination, with an emphasis on economic modelling and cost-effectiveness of new vaccines; and the budget impact of scaling up health care interventions that are cost-effective, have a potential to improve health, access to care and quality of life. Edina has worked with global partners and national counterparts through initiatives such as the Global Health Cost Consortium, VALUE TB Consortium, XTEND and XPHACTOR trials, and Safe Generations.