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Department of Pathology

 

Caroline is the Director for Cambridge-Africa and a Professor of Global Health at the University of Cambridge.

She is an infectious disease epidemiologist focusing on vaccine-preventable diseases and bacterial meningitis in particular.  She is a member of the WHO Technical Taskforce for Defeating Meningitis by 2030, chair of the Meningitis Research Foundation Scientific Advisory Panel and member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination & Immunisation (JCVI). In addition to her work in Cambridge, she is a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Director of the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium at Imperial College. 

 

 
 
 

Publications

Key publications: 

 

Procter SR, Gonçalves BP, Paul P, Chandna J, Seedat F, Koukounari A, Hutubessy R, Trotter C, Lawn JE, Jit M. Maternal immunisation against Group B Streptococcus: A global analysis of health impact and cost-effectiveness. PLoS Med. 2023 Mar 14;20(3):e1004068. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004068. PMID: 36917564; PMCID: PMC10013922.

 

Gaythorpe KA, Abbas K, Huber J, Karachaliou A, Thakkar N, Woodruff K, Li X, Echeverria-Londono S; VIMC Working Group on COVID-19 Impact on Vaccine Preventable Disease; Ferrari M, Jackson ML, McCarthy K, Perkins TA, Trotter C, Jit M. Impact of COVID-19-related disruptions to measles, meningococcal A, and yellow fever vaccination in 10 countries. Elife. 2021 Jun 24;10:e67023. doi: 10.7554/eLife.67023. PMID: 34165077; PMCID: PMC8263060.

 

Li X, Mukandavire C, Cucunubá ZM, Echeverria Londono S, Abbas K, Clapham HE, Jit M, Johnson HL, Papadopoulos T, Vynnycky E, Brisson M, Carter ED, Clark A, de Villiers MJ, Eilertson K, Ferrari MJ, Gamkrelidze I, Gaythorpe KAM, Grassly NC, Hallett TB, Hinsley W, Jackson ML, Jean K, Karachaliou A, Klepac P, Lessler J, Li X, Moore SM, Nayagam S, Nguyen DM, Razavi H, Razavi-Shearer D, Resch S, Sanderson C, Sweet S, Sy S, Tam Y, Tanvir H, Tran QM, Trotter CL, Truelove S, van Zandvoort K, Verguet S, Walker N, Winter A, Woodruff K, Ferguson NM, Garske T; Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium. Estimating the health impact of vaccination against ten pathogens in 98 low-income and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2030: a modelling study. Lancet. 2021 Jan 30;397(10272):398-408. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32657-X. Erratum in: Lancet. 2021 Feb 20;397(10275):670. PMID: 33516338; PMCID: PMC7846814.

 

Marshall HS, McMillan M, Koehler AP, Lawrence A, Sullivan TR, MacLennan JM, Maiden MCJ, Ladhani SN, Ramsay ME, Trotter C, Borrow R, Finn A, Kahler CM, Whelan J, Vadivelu K, Richmond P. Meningococcal B Vaccine and Meningococcal Carriage in Adolescents in Australia. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jan 23;382(4):318-327. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1900236. PMID: 31971677.

 

Cooper LV, Ronveaux O, Fernandez K, Lingani C, Goumbi K, Ihekweazu C, Preziosi MP, Durupt A, Trotter CL. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Serogroup C Meningococcal Meningitis Spread in Niger and Nigeria and Implications for Epidemic Response. J Infect Dis. 2019 Oct 31;220(220 Suppl 4):S244-S252. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz343. PMID: 31671446; PMCID: PMC6822969.

Director of Cambridge Africa
Dr Caroline  Trotter

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