Alison Krentel
MSc, PhD
Senior Investigator
Associate Professor
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Chair
Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases
Senior Research Fellow
WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation, Technology Assessment for Health Equity
Member
Bruyère Research Institute Centre for Equity and Effectiveness
About:
Alison Krentel, PhD has been a researcher and consultant in public health working in over 14 countries across Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Western Pacific. Her research interests include facilitating community engagement, the use of implementation research to support health systems and the translation of research results into programmatic action.
Her research program largely focuses on issues related to neglected tropical diseases, equity, and effectiveness. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa and a Senior Investigator with the Bruyère Research Institute. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation, Technology Assessment for Health Equity, holds an honorary fellowship with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and is an Adjunct Professor at the Pattimura University in Indonesia.
She received both her Masters of Science in Public Health (1999) and her PhD (2008) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). She has worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF, The Task Force for Global Health and the German Development program (GIZ). She is co-founder and current chair of the Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases. She is the principal investigator of the Threads Lab.
Research Interests:
Health equity and effectiveness, global public health, implementation research, infectious disease control programs, community engagement, health systems strengthening.
Select Publications:
Krentel A, Gyapong M, McFarland DA, Ogundahunsi O, Titaley CR, Addiss DG. (2020). Keeping communities at the centre of efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis: Learning from the past to reach a future free of lymphatic filariasis. International Health.
Krentel A, Basker N, Beau de Rochars M, Bogus J, Dilliott D, Direny AN, Dubray C, Fischer PU, Ga AL, Goss CW, Hardy M, Howard C, Jambulingam P, King CL, Laman M, Lemoine JF, Mallya S, Robinson LJ, Samuela J, Schechtman KB, Steer AC, Supali T, Tavul L, Weil GJ. (2021). A multicenter, community-based, mixed methods assessment of the acceptability of a triple drug regimen for elimination of lymphatic filariasis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
King JD, Jacobson J, Krentel A. (2022). Accelerating the uptake of WHO recommendations for mass drug administration using ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine, and albendazole. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Dilliott D, Addiss D, Thickstun C, Djima AM, Comoe E, Thompson, L, Neema S, Amuyunzu-Nyamongo M, Wung-Buh A, McFarland D, Gyapong M, Krentel A. (2022). A mixed-methods exploration into the resilience of community drug distributors conducting mass drug administration for preventive chemotherapy of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis in Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda. PLOS Global Public Health.
Vlassoff C, Arogundade K, Patel K, Jacobson J, Gyapong M, Krentel A. (2022) Improving the response to female genital schistosomiasis in endemic countries through a gender sensitive human rights-based framework. Diseases.
Contact:
akrentel@bruyere.org
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