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Dr. Claire J Standley

Scientist

Claire J Standley is a scientist with HIGH. Her main faculty appointment is as an Associate Professor at Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security. Her current research focuses on multisectoral approaches to health systems strengthening, with an emphasis on prevention, diagnosis, and control of endemic and emerging infectious diseases. She is particularly interested in how implementation of One Health can improve disease surveillance, laboratory systems and public health emergency management, and collectively reduce the risk and impact of outbreaks. 

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University, USA (2010-2012)
  • PhD Genetics, University of Nottingham/Natural History Museum, UK (2007-2011)
  • MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, University of Oxford, UK (2006-2007)
  • BA (Hons) Natural Sciences (Zoology), University of Cambridge, UK (2003-2006)
     

Projects & Grants

DFG Initiation of International Collaboration Grant, "CoVec: Community-based Malaria Vector Control", 2022-2023

Publications

Implementation research to support global health security

  • Standley CJ et al. Leveraging partnerships to maximize global health security improvements in Guinea, 2015-2019. Health Security. 2020. 18(S1): S34-S42. doi.org/10.1089/hs.2019.0089
  • Attal-Juncqua A, Standley CJ et al. Legislative assessments as a tool for strengthening health security capacity: the example of Guinea post-2014 Ebola outbreak. Journal of Global Health Reports. 2019. 3: e2019060.
  • Standley CJ et al. Creating a national specimen referral system in Guinea: Lessons from initial development and implementation. Frontiers in Public Health. 2019. 7:83. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00083

Health security in fragile, conflict and violence settings

  • Dureab F, Ahmed K, Beiersmann C, Standley CJ, Alwaleedi A, Jahn A. Assessment of electronic early disease warning system for improved disease surveillance and outbreak response in Yemen. BMC Global Health. 2020. 20:1422 doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09460-4
  • Standley CJ et al. Data and cooperation required for Venezuela’s refugee crisis during COVID-19. Globalization and Health. 2020. 16:103. doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00635-7
  • Nair S…& Standley CJ. Assessing barriers, opportunities, and future directions in health information sharing in humanitarian contexts: A mixed-method study. BMJ Open. 2022. 12:e053042.  DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053042
  • Asi Y… Standley CJ, Vahedi L. Assessing Gender Responsiveness of COVID-19 Response Plans for Populations in Conflict-affected Humanitarian Emergencies. Conflict & Health. 2022. 16:4. doi.org/10.1186/s13031-022-00435-3  


One Health

  • Sorrell EM, El Azhari M, Maswdeh N, Kornbel S, Standley CJ et al. Frontiers in Public Health. 2015. 12;3:219. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00219
  • Standley CJ et al. Assessing health systems in Guinea for prevention and control of priority zoonotic diseases: A One Health approach. One Health. 2019. 7: doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100093
  • Hardy E, Standley CJ. Identifying intersectional feminist principles in the One Health framework. One Health. 2022. 15: doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100404


Integrated approaches to neglected tropical disease control

  • Standley CJ, Mugisha L, Verweij JJ, Adriko M, Arinaitwe M, Rowell C, Atuhaire A, Betson M, Hobbs E, van Tulleken CR, Kane RA, van Lieshout L, Ajarova L, Kabatereine NB, Stothard JR. Confirmed infection with intestinal schistosomiasis in semi-captive wild born chimpanzees on Ngamba Island, Uganda. Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 2011. 11 (2): 169-176. DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0156.
  • Standley CJ et al. Decision support for evidence-based integration of disease control: A proof of concept for malaria and schistosomiasis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2018. 12(4): e0006328. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006328
  • Standley CJ et al. Organization of oversight for integrated control of neglected tropical diseases within Ministries of Health. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2018. 12(11): e0006929. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006929
  • McKay S…& Standley CJ. Safely resuming neglected tropical disease control activities during COVID-19: Case studies from Nigeria and Guinea. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2021. 15(12):e0009904. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009904


Policy analysis to promote more effective investments in infectious disease prevention and control

  • Standley CJ et al. A New Framework for Global Public Health Emergency Reporting and Response. Science. 2015. 348:762-763.
  • Boyce MB, Sorrell EM, Standley CJ. An early analysis of the World Bank’s Pandemic Fund: a new fund for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. BMJ Global Health. 2023. 8:e011172.
  • Ung L, Stothard JR, Phalkey R, Azman AS, Chodosh J, *Hanage WP, *Standley CJ. Towards global control of parasitic diseases in the Covid-19 era: One Health and the future of multisectoral global health governance. Advances in Parasitology. 2021. 114(1): 1-26. doi: 10.1016/bs.apar.2021.08.007
     

Full list of PubMed citations available here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/claire.standley.2/bibliography/public/

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Contact Information

E-Mail: claire.standley(at)uni-heidelberg.de