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0845 196 4199
leonie.prasad@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• PhD Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• FFPH (Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health)
• MSc Public Health
• MRCGP (Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners)
• MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)

• Member of the British Medical Association
• Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health

Courses

• MSc Public Health
• BSc Public Health

Outline of career

Leonie worked in clinical general practice for some years before entering public health. She has worked in Public Health, both in the UK and abroad, in both practice as well as in research and academia.

Research Interest

Communicable diseases, particularly hepatitis and HIV in drug users.

Selected Publications

Prasad, L., Spoerri, A., Gebhardt, M.D., Egger, M., Low, N., Zwahlen, M., 2009. The changing epidemiology of HIV: analysis of data from five anonymous testing sites in Switzerland for 1996-2006. Swiss Medical Weekly, 139(17-18), pp.256-263.

Prasad, L., Masserey Spicher, V., Negro, F., Rickenbach, M., Zwahlen, M., and the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Group, 2009. Lack of excess all-cause mortality in non-cirrhotic hepatitis C virus-infected individuals in the absence of selected risk factors. Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 16(9), pp.644-649.

Prasad, L., Masserey Spicher, V., Zwahlen, M., Rickenbach, M., Helbling, B., Negro, F., and the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Group, 2007. Cohort Profile: The Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study (SCCS). International Journal of Epidemiology;36, pp.731-737.

Prasad, L., Masserey, V., Koch, D., Kammerlander, R., Zwahlen, M., 2007. Seroprevalence of hepatitis C in a sample of pregnant women in Switzerland: seroprevalence and sociodemographic factors. Swiss Medical Weekly, 137, pp.27-32.

Sloane D, Ramsay M, Prasad L, Gelb C, Teo C-G. Prevention of perinatal transmission of hepatitis B to babies at high risk: an evaluation. Vaccine 2005; 23(48-49):5500-8.