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Professor Lars Ake Persson

Professor of Public Health Evaluation

United Kingdom

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Lars Åke Persson MD PhD. Professor of Public Health Evaluation at LSHTM since 2016. Research and teaching in collaborative projects in Ethiopia. Main focus on evaluation of maternal and child health interventions combined with research capacity development. Previously professor of International Child Health at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Director of Public Health Sciences, icddrb, Bangladesh Paediatrician, epidemiologist with 40 year’s experience of global child health including longer periods of work in Tanzania, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ethiopia.

Affiliations
Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

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Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health

Teaching
Extensive teaching experiences on all academic levels in paediatrics and child health, epidemiology, implementation research and community-based trials.

Research
Has organized bilateral research collaboration including PhD training with institutions in Somalia, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, where doctoral students develop their own project within larger, high-quality research program. Experience of initiating Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) in Nicaragua and Vietnam, and responsible for HDSS in Matlab, Bangladesh during a 4-year period. Focus in research on community-based interventions for improved infant and child survival and nutrition interventions for improved maternal and child health and survival. Some 260 peer-reviewed publications.

Selected Publications
Alemu, K; Berhanu, D; Bergström, A; Hoa, DP; Swartling Peterson, S; Phoummalaysith, B; Tomson, G; Wanyenze, RK; Persson, LÅ;
2025
BMJ Global Health
Denu, Z; Defar, A; PERSSON, L; Lemma, S; BERHANU, D; Getachew, T; Shiferaw, S; Tariku, A; Guadu, T; Zelalem, M; Taye, G; SCHELLENBERG, J; MARCHANT, T; Alemu, K;
2025
BMC health services research
Delele, TG; Persson, LÃ…; SCHELLENBERG, J; BERHANU, D; Lemma, S; Defar, A; Zemedu, TG; Taye, G; Shiferaw, S; Denu, ZA; Tariku, A; Zelalem, M; Gelaye, KA;
2025
BMC pediatrics
MARCHANT, T; Alemayehu, S; Asfaw, E; Daba, AK; Defar, A; OPONDO, C; PERSSON, LA; SCHELLENBERG, J; Taye, G; Tesfa, A; Tessema, B; Zenebe, K; Tessema, M;
2025
BMJ open
Berhanu, AT; Defar, A; Taye, G; Daba, AK; Alemayehu, S; Tessema, B; Zenebe, K; OPONDO, C; Tollera, G; Hailu, M; SCHELLENBERG, J; PERSSON, LA; MARCHANT, T; Tessema, M;
2025
Maternal & child nutrition
Tariku, A; Alemu, K; SCHELLENBERG, J; MARCHANT, T; BERHANU, D; Lemma, S; Defar, A; Getachew, T; Abdissa, Z; Guadu, T; Shiferaw, S; Taye, G; Zelalem, M; Persson, LÃ…;
2025
Maternal & child nutrition
Tariku, A; PERSSON, L; SCHELLENBERG, J; MARCHANT, T; BERHANU, D; Lemma, S; Defar, A; Zemedu, TG; Denu, ZA; Delele, TG; Shiferaw, S; Zeleke, GT; Zelalem, M; Gelaye, KA;
2025
BMJ open
Nu, UT; Pervin, J; Rahman, M; Kamal, KT B; Aktar, S; Huda, FA; Ganguly, S; El Arifeen, S; Persson, LÃ…; Rahman, A;
2024
Journal of global health
Malin Igra, A; Trask, M; Rahman, SM; Dreij, K; Lindh, C; Krais, AM; PERSSON, L-Ã…; Rahman, A; Kippler, M;
2024
Environment international
Asefa, YA; Persson, LÃ…; Seale, AC; ASSEFA, N;
2024
Gates Open Research
Lars Ake Persson

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United Kingdom