Professor Elizabeth Brickley
Professor of Epidemiology and Planetary Health
United Kingdom
Elizabeth Brickley is a Professor of Epidemiology & Planetary Health at the app of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM, London, UK). Within the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & International Health, Elizabeth directs the Health Equity Action Lab (), an interdisciplinary team conducting policy-relevant community-engaged research that critically examines the links between human health, poverty, and the environment. Elizabeth’s primary research aim is to better understand and eliminate infectious diseases, and her work has informed public health interventions targeting polio, Zika, leprosy, malaria, and COVID-19. In close collaboration with partners from Brazil’s Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, she is currently contributing to the development of CIDACS-Clima (), a large-scale linked data platform for studying the social and environmental determinants of health resilience to climate change. Elizabeth is committed to fostering an inclusive academic culture that embraces diversity and serves as a Decolonising the Curriculum Facilitator, an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Co-Lead of the LSHTM Press Steering Group (), and an EDI Co-Lead of the Medical Research Council (MRC) London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership ().
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
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Centre for Epidemic Preparedness and Response
Malaria Centre
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Vaccine Centre
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health
Research
Research Area
Epidemiology
Planetary health
Vaccinology
Disease and Health Conditions
Zika
Polio
Leprosy
Malaria
COVID-19
Country
Brazil
United States of America
United Kingdom
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
North America
Selected Publications
2025
EClinicalMedicine
2025
The Lancet Microbe
2025
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2025
Vaccine
2025
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
2025
JAMA network open
2024
Int J Hyg Environ Health
2024
The Lancet. Infectious diseases
2024
The Journal of infectious diseases
2024
Annals of work exposures and health