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Mr Hugo Legge

Research Fellow

app of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel street, London
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am an environmental health researcher with an interest in neglected tropical diseases and water, sanitation and hygiene. I graduated from LSHTM with an MSc in Public Health (Environment and Health Stream) in 2016. Following this I worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at SEED Madagascar from 2017-2018, where I designed and coordinated the evaluation of a rural water supply intervention. I joined LSHTM in 2018 as the Clinical Trials Operations Coordinator for the DeWorm3 Project, a multi-country cluster randomised trial testing the feasibility of interrupting transmission of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in selected sites in Benin, Malawi and India. In October 2020 I undertook a new role within LSHTM as the Trial Coordinator for the SABABU project, a cluster randomised trial investigating the contribution of household flooring to enteric and parasitic infections in two rural settings in Kenya.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Teaching

Module facilitator – Designing Disease Control Programmes (2018 – 2021)
Module facilitator – Analysis and Design of Research Studies (2018 – present)
Module facilitator – Spatial Epidemiology (2021 - present)
Lecturer – Introduction to Disease Agents and their Control (2022 – present)
MSc tutor – Control of Infectious Diseases (2019 – 2020)

Research

I have a broad range of research interests that cover programme evaluation, neglected tropical diseases, environmental health in low income settings and more specifically water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). I am particularly interested in issues of sustainability of access to WASH and exploring the behavioral outcomes associated with environmental health interventions.
Research Area
Behaviour change
Child health
Clinical trials
Disease control
Environmental Health
Evaluation
Helminths
Hygiene
Impact evaluation
Sanitation
Water
Epidemiology
Operational research
Implementation science
Randomised controlled trials
GIS/Spatial analysis
Disease and Health Conditions
Diarrhoeal diseases
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Tropical diseases
Infectious diseases
Skin diseases
Country
Congo
India
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
West Bank and Gaza
Region
Arab World
Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

HALLIDAY, KE; Kepha, S; LEGGE, H; ALLEN, E; DREIBELBIS, R; Elson, L; Kakoi, BK; Mcharo, C; Muli, S; Mwongeli, J; Njomo, D; Njoroge, MM; Ochwal, V; Oswald, WE; Rono, M; Safari, TK; Filinger, U; Kaluli, JW; Mwandawiro, CS; PULLAN, RL;
2025
BMJ open
Aruldas, K; Ramesh, RM; Prasad, S; Israel, GJ; LEGGE, H; Walson, JL; Means, AR; Ajjampur, SS R;
2025
PLOS Global Public Health
Kepha, S; LEGGE, H; HALLIDAY, KE; Ochwal, V; Elson, L; Mwongeli, J; Oswald, WE; Kakoi, B; Wambua, J; Mwandawiro, C; Fillinger, U; PULLAN, R; Njomo, D;
2025
BMC public health
Means, AR; Ásbjörnsdóttir, KH; Sharrock, KC; Galagan, SR; Aruldas, K; Avokpaho, E; Chabi, F; HALLIDAY, KE; Houngbegnon, P; Israel, GJ; Kaliappan, SP; Kennedy, D; LEGGE, H; Oswald, WE; Palanisamy, G; Rogers, E; TIMOTHY, J; Pearman, E; Ramesh, RM; Simwanza, J; Sheik-Abdullah, JF; Sheikh, M; Togbevi, CI; Witek-McManus, S; PULLAN, RL; ... Walson, JL.
2024
Infectious diseases of poverty
WITEK-MCMANUS, S; Simwanza, J; Msiska, R; Mangawah, H; Oswald, W; TIMOTHY, J; Galagan, S; Pearman, E; Shaikh, M; LEGGE, H; Walson, J; Juziwelo, L; Davey, C; PULLAN, R; BAILEY, RL; Kalua, K; KUPER, H;
2024
BMJ open
LEGGE, H; Kazungo, K; Muli, S; Elson, L; Mwongeli, J; HALLIDAY, KE; Ochwal, V; Oswald, W; DREIBELBIS, R; Njomo, D; Mwandawiro, C; Fillinger, U; PULLAN, R; Kepha, S;
2024
Environmental health insights
Saxena, M; Roll, A; Walson, JL; Pearman, E; LEGGE, H; Nindi, P; Chirambo, CM; Titus, A; Johnson, J; Bélou, EA; Togbevi, CI; Chabi, F; Avokpaho, E; Kalua, K; Ajjampur, SS R; Ibikounlé, M; Aruldas, K; Means, AR;
2024
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
LEGGE, H; PULLAN, RL; Sartorius, B;
2023
PLOS global public health
Ramesh, RM; Oswald, WE; Israel, GJ; Aruldas, K; Galagan, S; LEGGE, H; Puthupalayam Kaliappan, S; Walson, J; HALLIDAY, KE; Ajjampur, SS R;
2023
BMJ open
Kelly, J; Tsilahatsy, M; Carnot, T; Fidelos, RW; Randriamanampy, G; Charlier, AZ; Kowalczewski, E; Hasoavana, L; Andriatsihosena, M; Chaplin, H; LEGGE, H;
2023
PLOS Water