Home| Reader in Sexual Health & HIV Medicine |
Contact details:
| Tel: | +44 20 7882 2316 |
| Fax: | +44 20 7882 2181 |
| Email: | c.s.estcourt@qmul.ac.uk |
| Address: | Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, |
Biography:
Dr Claudia Estcourt is Reader in Sexual Health & HIV Medicine. She is an Honorary Consultant at Barts and the London NHS Trust within Infection & Immunity where her clinical work centres on HIV outpatients, especially for French-speaking African patients, and complex female STI & sexual health problems. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Primary Care and Population Science, University College London. Her group's research interests focus on: health services research for sexual health & HIV; public health interventions to reduce the transmission of STIs; and evaluations of educational interventions to improve STI & HIV outcomes in primary care. Claudia has a long-standing collaboration with clinical teams in Southern China with research projects on risk reduction in men who have sex with men, and clinical training programs in China for clinicians in sexual health. Claudia leads on Sexual Health teaching in the Queen Mary medical undergraduate curriculum.
Research Activity
Our expanding group of sexual health researchers benefits from our close links with Barts and the London Sexual Health & HIV services locally and sits within a strong network of research collaborations with UCL, Imperial, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Birmingham, St George’s Medical School, Public Health England and the National Chlamydia Screening Program. Our main interests include: 1) a five year NIHR program of research to improve sexual health outcomes in young UK men, targeting young men for better sexual health: The BALLSEYE Program 2) an HTA funded Randomised controlled trial of partner notification in primary care. Partner Notification Study: led by Brighton & Sussex Medical School; and 3) ‘The eSTI2 Consortium: enabling and translating advances in diagnostic and communication technologies to reduce the burden of STIs’ for which we are a consortium partner, led by St George’s Medical School.
Key Publications
• Golden MR, Estcourt CS. Barriers to the Implementation of Expedited Partner Therapy. Sex Transm Infect (in press)
• Hutchinson J, Evans DE, Sutcliffe LJ, MacQueen R-A, Davies J, Estcourt CS. STIFCompetency: Development and Evaluation of a New Clinical Training and Assessment Program in Sexual Health for Primary Care Health Professionals. Int J STD AIDS 2010 (submitted)
• Aicken CRH, Cassell JA, Estcourt CS, Keane F, Brook G, Rait G, Mercer CH. Rationale, development and implementation of a survey tool for describing and auditing the composition of, and flows between, specialised and community clinical services for sexually transmitted infections. BMC Public Health (in press)
• Shackleton T, Sutcliffe LJ, Estcourt CS. Is Accelerated Partner Therapy (APT) Partner Notification for STIs acceptable and feasible in general practice? A qualitative study. Sexual Health (in press)
• Mercer CH, Aicken CRH, Estcourt CS, Brook B, Cassell JA. Estimating the likely public health impact of partner notification for a clinical service: an evidence-based algorithm. Am J Pub Health (in press)
• Saunders JM, Hart G, Estcourt CS. Is asymptomatic non-chlamydial non-gonococcal urethritis associated with significant clinical consequences in men and their sexual partners? A systematic review. Int J STD AIDS 2010 (in press)
• Estcourt CS, Sutcliffe LJ, Cassell JA, Mercer C, Copas A, James L, Low NM, Horner P, Clarke M, Symonds M, Roberts TE, Tsourapas A, Johnson AM. Can we improve partner notification rates through expedited partner therapy in the UK? Findings from an exploratory trial of Accelerated Partner Therapy (APT). Sex Transm Infect (in press)
• Roberts TE, Tsourapas A, Sutcliffe LJ, Estcourt CS. Is Accelerated Partner Therapy (APT) a Cost-Effective Alternative to Routine Patient Referral Partner Notification in the UK? Economic Evaluation of an Exploratory Trial. Sex Transm Infect (in press)
