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'

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'
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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.

 

Speaker
Professor Helen Weiss DPhil FMedSci
Venue
MS Teams
Contact

Please contact acwhr@abdn.ac.uk for the link to join!