Lucy Carpenter: Annual Report 2003-2004

Lucy Carpenter (Faculty Fellow) continued her research studying the long-term health outcomes of members of the armed forces who took part in chemical warfare agent trials in the UK at Porton Down between the 1940s and the 1980s. This will involve comparing death rates (and cancer registrations) in around 20,000 members who took part in trials during this period with rates in 20,000 who did not. Data collection for this study is now well underway. Research published this year included methodological work relating to the design of randomized community intervention trials, and further findings from one such trial studying preventive measures for HIV in rural Uganda. While the latter study found the behavioural change programme to have no overall effect on rates of HIV infection, it did appear to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition in women who attended it. The main focus of her current HIV research involves studying relationships between infectious diseases (such as human papillomaviruses) and cancer, in adults and children in Uganda.

Publications

(with J Todd, X Li, J Nakiyingi, R Gray and R Hayes) 'The Effects of Alternative Study Designs On The Power Of Community Randomized Trials: Evidence from Three Studies of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention in East Africa', International Journal of Epidemiology, 32, 755-762, 2003.

(with M Quigley, A Kamali, J Kinsman, I Kamulegeya, J Nakiyingi, S Kiwuwa, J F Kengeya-Kayondo and J A G Whitworth) 'The Impact of Attending a Behavioural Intervention on HIV Incidence in Masaka, Uganda', AIDS, 18, 2055-2063, 2004.

(with R Newton, L Bousarghin, J Ziegler, D Casabonne, V Beral, E Mbidde, D M Parkin, H Wabinga, S Mbulaiteye, H Jaffe, A Touzé, P Coursaget and the Uganda Kaposi's Sarcoma Study Group). 'Human Papillomaviruses and Cancer in Uganda', European Journal of Cancer Prevention, 13, 113-118, 2004.