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Harpham, Trudy

Research interests

Urban health in developing countries, environmental health, health services research, mental health and the social determinants of health. Recent projects include: an intervention study in Cali, Colombia to strengthen social capital in order to reduce violence and improve the mental health of low-income youth; and a longitudinal cohort study of child poverty in Peru, Ethiopia, Vietnam and India.

Selected publications

Harpham, T. (2009) Urban health in developing countries: What do we know and where do we go? Health and Place 15:107-116.

Harpham, T., Huttly, S., and Wilson, I. (2005) Measuring international child poverty. Chapter in N Hamdi (ed) Urban Futures. London:ITDG.

Harpham, T., Huttly, S., De Silva, M., Abramsky, T. (2005) Maternal mental health and child nutritional status in four developing countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 59(12):1060-1064.

Harpham T. (2003) Mortality and morbidity: Is city life good for your health? In M Montgomery, R Stren, B Cohen and H Reed (eds) Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World. National Academies Press: Washington DC.

Harpham T. and Grant E. (2002) Health, health services and environmental health. In Rakodi C. (ed) Urban Livelihoods: A People Centred Approach to Reducing Poverty Earthscan: London.

Affiliation

London South Bank University, Faculty of Health and Social Care

The Faculty of Health and Social Care is the largest of the University's four faculties with over 7,000 students and 350 teaching and research staff. It is the UK's second largest provider of nurse education and trains one in four of London's nurses and health and social care...

Co-authors

De Silva, Mary

Mary De Silva is a Lecturer in Epidemiology working in global mental health. She read Biological...

Huttly, Sharon

I became the School's Dean of Studies in January 2006, having played an active role in the...

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