London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Laura Rodrigues
Laura C Rodrigues is a professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and head the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She graduated in Medicine in Brazil, and has an MSc and PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Laura contributes actively to the teaching of epidemiology at the LSHTM and chairs the board of examiners for the MSc Epidemiology. Current research is both substantive and methodological, and is based mostly in the UK and Brazil. It includes a randomised-controlled trial of the efficacy of a second dose of BCG in school children against tuberculosis and leprosy, with associated projects on patterns of immunological response to BCG according to previous vaccination and skin reactions to other mycobacteria and to PPD, and cost efficacy of BCG vaccination. She is a co-PI on the SCAALA Programme (Social Change and Asthma in Latin America). She is involved in studies of frequency and causes of gastroenteritis in Brazil and of the cost of gastroenteritis in Ireland; and of the role of exposure to swine on Salmonella disease in humans. She was the lead epidemiologist in the first IID study.
