Judith Glynn

Judith Glynn
Judith Glynn presenting "Ebola in Context" for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2015
Alma materLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Scientific career
InstitutionsLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Judith Glynn is a Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She worked on the Karonga Prevention Study on HIV and Tuberculosis in Malawi. She is also a sculptor.

Education and early career[edit]

Glynn completed an MSc in Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1990. She completed her PhD in infectious diseases in 1993.[1]

Career[edit]

Glynn has worked in Malawi, Sierra Leone and South Africa.[2] She studies the relationship between education and health. She has conducted several large-scale studies into the prevalence of infectious diseases in Africa. Glynn studies the relationship between mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV.[3] In 1998, Glynn studied the resurgence of tuberculous and how it was impacted by HIV infection.[4] She monitored the Beijing genotype of mycobacterium tuberculosis for seven years in Malawi.[5] She hypothesised that it may have originated from Chinese agricultural advisors.[5] She continued to monitor tuberculosis in Malawi for several decades.[6] She began to monitor the association of HIV and educational attainment in Thailand and Africa.[7] She found that in Thailand, more schooling resulted in less infection, whereas in Africa higher attainment resulted in a greater risk.[7] She discussed her work on sequencing the mycobacterium tuberculosis genome on the eLife podcast.[8]

She was awarded a Department of Health Public Health Career Scientist Award in 2002. In 2008 Glynn edited the book HIV, Resurgent Infections and Population Change in Africa.[9] She identified that access to free HIV/AIDS drugs resulted in a significant reduction of adult mortality rates.[10] Glynn went on to study how the menarche impacted the prevalence of herpes simplex.[11][12] In 2015 she ran a free three-week course in the science of ebola.[13] The course was made available on FutureLearn.[14] She monitored recrudescence of severe Ebola in Western Africa. Since 2016, Glynn has been a member of the Public Health England Rapid Support Team.[15]

Using the anti-glycoprotein IgG capture assay, Glynn demonstrated that asymptomatic Ebola virus infection occurs but would have little impact on herd immunity.[16] She used data from 2007 to 2016 to show that failure in the early stages of school in Malawi could be used to predict pregnancy and marriage.[17]

Sculpture[edit]

Glynn is sculptor. She uses her sculpture to illustrate human life and interactions.[18] For the Bloomsbury Festival, Glynn created a mobile sculpture that visualised Indo-European languages.[18] She has exhibited in Hampton Court Palace and Clare Hall, Cambridge.[19] In Aspects of Life, Glynn used wire, bronze and giant sea pods to depict chromosomes.[20]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Prof. Judith Glynn - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  2. ^ "Judith Glynn | LSHTM". LSHTM. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  3. ^ Glynn, Judith R.; Crampin, Amelia C.; Yates, Malcolm D.; Traore, Hamidou; Mwaungulu, Frank D.; Ngwira, Bagrey M.; Ndlovu, Richard; Drobniewski, Francis; Fine, Paul E. M. (August 2005). "The Importance of Recent Infection withMycobacterium tuberculosisin an Area with High HIV Prevalence: A Long-Term Molecular Epidemiological Study in Northern Malawi". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 192 (3): 480–487. doi:10.1086/431517. ISSN 0022-1899. PMID 15995962.
  4. ^ Glynn, J. R (1998-01-01). "Resurgence of tuberculosis and the impact of HIV infection". British Medical Bulletin. 54 (3): 579–593. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011712. ISSN 0007-1420. PMID 10326286.
  5. ^ a b Glynn, Judith R.; Crampin, Amelia C.; Traore, Hamidou; Yates, Malcolm D.; Mwaungulu, Frank D.; Ngwira, Bagrey M.; Chaguluka, Steven D.; Mwafulirwa, Donex T.; Floyd, Sian (January 2005). "Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype, Northern Malawi". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 11 (1): 150–153. doi:10.3201/eid1101.040869. ISSN 1080-6040. PMC 3294335. PMID 15705343.
  6. ^ Glynn, Judith R.; Alghamdi, Saad; Mallard, Kim; McNerney, Ruth; Ndlovu, Richard; Munthali, Lumbani; Houben, Rein M.; Fine, Paul E. M.; French, Neil (2010-08-17). "Changes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genotype Families Over 20 Years in a Population-Based Study in Northern Malawi". PLOS ONE. 5 (8): e12259. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...512259G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012259. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 2923199. PMID 20808874.
  7. ^ a b Hargreaves, James R.; Glynn, Judith R. (June 2002). "Educational attainment and HIV-1 infection in developing countries: a systematic review". Tropical Medicine and International Health. 7 (6): 489–498. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00889.x. ISSN 1360-2276. PMID 12031070. S2CID 39080948.
  8. ^ eLife podcast - Judith Glynn: Genome sequencing of M.tuberculosis, retrieved 2018-10-15
  9. ^ Caraël, Michel; Glynn, Judith R., eds. (2007). HIV, Resurgent Infections and Population Change in Africa. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6174-5. ISBN 978-1-4020-6172-1.
  10. ^ Reuters Editorial. "Free AIDS drugs slash death rate in Malawi study". U.K. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2018-10-15. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  11. ^ Glynn, Judith R.; Kayuni, Ndoliwe; Floyd, Sian; Banda, Emmanuel; Francis-Chizororo, Monica; Tanton, Clare; Molesworth, Anna; Hemmings, Joanne; Crampin, Amelia C. (2010-12-09). "Age at Menarche, Schooling, and Sexual Debut in Northern Malawi". PLOS ONE. 5 (12): e15334. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...515334G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015334. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3000342. PMID 21151570.
  12. ^ "Earlier menarche is associated with a higher prevalence of Herpes simplex type-2 (HSV-2) in young women in rural Malawi | eLife Lens". lens.elifesciences.org. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  13. ^ "Ebola in Context: Understanding Transmission, Response and Control | LSHTM". LSHTM. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  14. ^ "Girls' Schooling and Early Marriage in Northern Nigeria — The Bloomsbury Colleges". www.bloomsbury.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  15. ^ "The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team: Research Progress and working with the RST | LSHTM". LSHTM. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  16. ^ Glynn, Judith R; Bower, Hilary; Johnson, Sembia; Houlihan, Catherine F; Montesano, Carla; Scott, Janet T; Semple, Malcolm G; Bangura, Mohammed S; Kamara, Alie Joshua (June 2017). "Asymptomatic infection and unrecognised Ebola virus disease in Ebola-affected households in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study using a new non-invasive assay for antibodies to Ebola virus". The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 17 (6): 645–653. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30111-1. ISSN 1473-3099. PMC 6520246. PMID 28256310.
  17. ^ Glynn, Judith R.; Sunny, Bindu S.; DeStavola, Bianca; Dube, Albert; Chihana, Menard; Price, Alison J.; Crampin, Amelia C. (2018-05-14). "Early school failure predicts teenage pregnancy and marriage: A large population-based cohort study in northern Malawi". PLOS ONE. 13 (5): e0196041. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1396041G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0196041. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5951561. PMID 29758040.
  18. ^ a b "Judith Glynn, sculptor and epidemiologist, talks about her artworks". Bloomsbury Festival. 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  19. ^ "Exhibitions". Zenfolio | Judith Glynn Sculpture. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  20. ^ "Sculpture Doctor | Cambridge TV". Cambridge TV. 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
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