University of Glasgow
School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine
I am a parasitologist and field epidemiologist who uses a wide range of techniques to address global health issues. I am a Professor at the University of Glasgow in the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine and the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology. My team’s research (@LambertonLab) is primarily motivated by how to improve the lives of those affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). My early focus was on utilising field epidemiological data, laboratory experiments, and population genetics to understand population structure, transmission dynamics, host-parasite-drug interactions and the effects of long-term mass drug administration on NTDs such as schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths and onchocerciasis. However, to address NTD challenges, my research is steadily becoming more interdisciplinary. I am currently working with some amazing anthropologists, economists, social scientists and engineers to ascertain how people manage their own risk of infection and disease transmission, what social and economic behaviours could be popular to change to reduce transmission, as well as what local sanitation solutions might help reduce community and individual level infections (www.PoppyLamberton.com).

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01. Living with parasites

USING CHOICE MODELLING TO IDENTIFY POPULAR AND AFFORDABLE ALTERNATIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN UGANDA (ID 249)

Session Type
01. Living with parasites
Date
08/25/2022
Session Time
10:45 - 12:15
Room
Hall B4.M7+8
Lecture Time
10:45 - 11:00
Onsite or Pre-Recorded
Onsite

Abstract

Introduction

We examined community preferences for interventions that would improve sanitation and access to safe water in rural Uganda, in the specific context of mitigating transmission of, and individual exposure to, Schistosoma mansoni. We collected choice data from households in three remote littoral villages in the Mayuge district of Uganda.

Methods

This study used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to investigate preferences for two types of WASH interventions. DCEs elicit community preferences by presenting participants with a series of hypothetical interventions and asking them to select their most preferred, from the discrete set of alternatives. Typical to these surveys, each intervention bundle comes at a cost to the individual. As such, we are able to elicit how respondents make trade-offs between the interventions’ presented benefits and the associated incurred cost. All respondents saw two sets of choice cards which related to 1) behaviours that put oneself at risk (RTS) and 2) behaviours that put others at risk (RTO). This enabled us to compare and contrast the value that local people put on improvements to these two different domains of risk and compare WTP and WTW for the two intervention types.

Results

Findings show that the most popular WASH-based interventions were those reducing RTS. This was followed by interventions aimed at reducing RTOs.

Conclusions

This is the first paper to explore preferences for two types of interventions to combat S. mansoni infection and transmission in rural Uganda. We find that respondents were keen for change and were willing to pay and work for new WASH interventions which would reduce health risks both to themselves (in the RTS scenarios) and to others (in the RTO scenarios).

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