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.
Courses
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GLHLTH 705
Biostatistics and Epidemiology for Global Health
Projects
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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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SHARE Child: Impact of perinatal depression treatment on child developmental
outcomes
Pakistan
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INvestigating Febrile Deaths In Tanzania (INDITe)
Tanzania
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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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Reducing stigma among healthcare providers to improve mental health services (RESHAPE)
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
Publications
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Maffioli EM, Prudhomme O’Meara W, Turner EL, Mohanan M. Can individuals’ beliefs help us understand nonadherence to malaria test results? Evidence from rural Kenya. Review of Development Economics. 2021 Feb 1;25(1):163–82.
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Bennett GG, Steinberg D, Bolton J, Gallis JA, Treadway C, Askew S, et al. Optimizing an Obesity Treatment Using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy Framework: Protocol for a Randomized Factorial Trial. Jmir Res Protoc. 2021 Jan 18;10(1):e19506.
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Cohee LM, Opondo C, Clarke SE, Halliday KE, Cano J, Shipper AG, et al. Preventive malaria treatment among school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analyses. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 Dec;8(12):e1499–511.
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Hagaman AK, Baranov V, Chung E, LeMasters K, Andrabi N, Bates LM, et al. Association of maternal depression and home adversities with infant hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis biomarkers in rural Pakistan. J Affect Disord. 2020 Nov 1;276:592–9.
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