Rate My Professor Hugo Turner

Tuner completed his PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Health Economics at Imperial College London between 2010 and 2014, with a thesis on the impact and cost of ivermectin mass drug administration programmes on soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Vietnam. He also holds an MSc in Modern Epidemiology (Merit) from Imperial College London (2009-2010). His professional career includes serving as an Economist at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from August 2016 to January 2020, and as Research Stream Leader for Health Economics at the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research from December 2013 to July 2016. Turner co-leads the health economics module in Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health programme and teaches on the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine.

Key publications by Turner include 'An Introduction to the Main Types of Economic Evaluations Used in Infectious Disease Transmission Dynamic Modelling' (Frontiers in Public Health, 2021), 'Economic evaluations of human schistosomiasis interventions: current evidence and research needs' (Wellcome Open Research, 2020), 'An Updated Economic Assessment of Moxidectin Treatment for Onchocerciasis' (Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2024), 'Cost-effectiveness of scaling up mass drug administration for soil-transmitted helminths: an opportunity to reach the London Declaration goals' (The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016), and 'Reaching the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases goals: an exploration of hard-to-reach communities' (PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014). His research contributes to evidence-based policymaking for infectious disease control programmes globally.