Elizabeth Turner
Director, DGHI Research Design and Analysis Core
Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Global Health
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Elizabeth Turner
Director, DGHI Research Design and Analysis Core
Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Global Health
Liz joined the Duke Global Health Institute and the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in March 2012 to collaborate with, and provide biostatistical support to DGHI faculty and affiliates. With a PhD in statistics from McGill University, Canada, followed by four years working as a collaborative biostatistician in the Department of Medical Statistics, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Liz has extensive experience working in both epidemiological studies and randomized trials across a range of substantive areas in developed world and resource poor settings.
Thanks to her participation in multi-disciplinary projects, she has a great appreciation for the importance of good study design and data collection and is well aware that no fancy statistical analyses can save researchers from the scourge of bad data. Through those experiences and her teaching in different settings, including the UK, Canada, France and Tanzania, she is aware that statisticians and their collaborators sometimes "speak a different language". As a result, her approach is very much one of translation, pragmatism and collaboration. Her current substantive interests include malaria, disability and disease burden with an emphasis on eye diseases, cardiovascular disease and mental health, together with child health and education.
Starting in fall 2013, Liz will teach the MSc-GH core course Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods for Global Health Science I.
Projects
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Reducing stigma among healthcare providers to improve mental health services (RESHAPE)
United States
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Effectiveness of focused psychosocial support to improve the psychosocial well-being and functioning of adults affected by humanitarian crisis in Nepal
United States
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SHARE Child Pakistan
United States
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System-Integrated Technology-Enabled Model of Care Aiming to Improve the Health of Stroke Patients in Poorly Resourced Settings in China
United States
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SHARE Child: Impact of perinatal depression treatment on child developmental
outcomes
Pakistan
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Innovative Partnership to Target antimalarial Subsidies in the Retail Sector
Kenya
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Innovative partnership to target antimalarial subsidies in the retail sector
Kenya
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INvestigating Febrile Deaths In Tanzania (INDITe)
Tanzania
Publications
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Li F, Yu H, Rathouz PJ, Turner EL, Preisser JS. Marginal modeling of cluster-period means and intraclass correlations in stepped wedge designs with binary outcomes. Biostatistics. 2022 Jul 18;23(3):772–88.Emmett SD, Platt A, Turner EL, Gallo JJ, Labrique AB, Inglis SM, et al. Mobile health school screening and telemedicine referral to improve access to specialty care in rural Alaska: a cluster- randomised controlled trial. Lancet Glob Health. 2022 Jul;10(7):e1023–33.Cutting ER, Simmons RA, Madut DB, Maze MJ, Kalengo NH, Carugati M, et al. Facility-based disease surveillance and Bayesian hierarchical modeling to estimate endemic typhoid fever incidence, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania, 2007-2018. Plos Negl Trop Dis. 2022 Jul;16(7):e0010516.Kohrt BA, Turner EL, Gurung D, Wang X, Neupane M, Luitel NP, et al. Implementation strategy in collaboration with people with lived experience of mental illness to reduce stigma among primary care providers in Nepal (RESHAPE): protocol for a type 3 hybrid implementation effectiveness cluster randomized controlled trial. Implement Sci. 2022 Jun 16;17(1):39.
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