Elizabeth Corbett, Ph.D.

Dr. Corbett is a Clinical Epidemiologist, trained as a specialist Infectious Diseases in the UK. She has been in full time research at LSHTM since a fellowship in 1996, with a short break to complete clinical training in 2000.

She has been funded by two successive Wellcome Trust Grants to work full time in Zimbabwe since 2001, having also spent 3 years in South Africa for her PhD. She currently holds a Wellcome Trust career Post in Clinical Tropical Medicine and is working towards building up the capacity of her Clinical Unit within her host institution, Biomedical Research and Training Institute in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Dr. Corbett has a main research interest in improving TB control in high HIV populations, with a special focus on exploring novel public health strategies with potential to increase access to TB diagnosis and treatment. She has an ongoing cluster-randomised trial of intensified TB case-finding in Harare. Collaborative work includes a TB drug trial (RIFAQUIN) run from St George's and MRC Clinical Trials Unit; TB diagnostics research with Ruth Mcnerney (LSHTM) and Colin Pilinger and Taff Morgan of the Planetary Space Science Institute of the Open University; and other diagnostic research with Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), and with Ajit Lalvani (Imperial).

For more information and a list of Dr. Corbett's publications, click here.