Aberdeen Centre for Women's Health Research (ACWHR) Seminar with Professor Helen Weiss - 'Improving menstrual health in Uganda: MENISCUS - a school-based cluster-randomised trial'
Professor Helen Anne Weiss DPhil FMedSci
Helen is a Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the MRC International Statistical and Epidemiology Partnership, based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A statistician by training, Helen has designed and analysed many epidemiological studies and clinical trials in low- and middle-income countries for 25 years. A main focus of her work has been evaluating intervention strategies to prevent and control HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, and to improve treatment of common mental disorders through task-shifting of counselling interventions by trained lay-workers in India and sub-Saharan Africa.
The adolescent period is crucial for both HIV and mental health in later life, and Helen now focuses her research on evaluating interventions among adolescents. She led a recently-completed school-based cluster randomised controlled trial of a menstrual health package intervention, to improve education, health and well-being among school girls in Uganda (the MENISCUS trial), and is currently leading a study to co-develop an intervention to improve sleep health in Ugandan schools. Helen’s vision is to continue to expand school-based health interventions to broaden from single-disease interventions to address the broader prevention strategies needed to improve the health and wellbeing of adolescents globally.
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