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Professor

Jayne Webster

Professor of International Health and Evaluation

Disease Control

Orcid identifier0000-0002-0498-8883
  • Professor of International Health and Evaluation
    Disease Control

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests centre on understanding how health interventions and policies are implemented, adapted, and sustained within complex health systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Key areas include:

 

Malaria and infectious disease control
Implementation, delivery, and integration of preventive and treatment interventions, including chemoprevention, vaccines, diagnostics, and vector control, with a focus on coverage, equity, and system integration.

Immunisation, family planning, and nutrition programmes
How routine services and vertical programmes interact, how delivery platforms shape access and uptake, and how co-delivery and integration influence programme performance and user experience.

Health systems, organisations, and institutions
How governance arrangements, decision space, supervision, and accountability influence behaviour, engagement, and decision-making across different levels of the health system.

Learning, adaptation, and quality improvement
How health systems learn from data and experience, why improvement efforts often remain short-lived, and under what conditions learning becomes embedded in routine practice.

Realist and theory-driven approaches
Use and adaptation of realist evaluation, theory of change, and mixed-methods designs to explain how and why interventions work differently across contexts, and to extend these approaches into new areas of global health policy and practice.

Across these themes, my work seeks to generate explanations that travel across disease areas and programmes, contributing to broader debates on implementation, learning, and institutional change in global health.

GRANTS

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  • CURRENT RESEARCH GRANT
    [OPTiMIX Study] - Enhancing effective and equitable routine Implementation of Malaria Vaccine and Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention in Cameroon and C�te dIvoire (PMC Plus Project MVac extension study)
    Medical Research Council1 Jul 2025 - 31 Dec 2028
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    The impact of a combination of the RTSS/AS01E malaria vaccine and perennial chemoprevention of malaria in Ghanaian children
    PATH1 Apr 2023 - 30 Jun 2025
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    PMI Insights (PATH) - Madagascar Supervision Evaluation
    PATH1 Oct 2022 - 30 Sep 2023
  • OTHER LSHTM GRANT
    1 Aug 2021 - 31 Jul 2025
    People funded by this grant: Roper C, Gosling R, Clarke S, Sutherland C, Chico M
    Plus Project
  • CURRENT RESEARCH GRANT
    Population Services International1 Aug 2021 - 31 Jul 2025
    The Plus Project is a 4.25-year Unitaid-funded project that will co-design, pilot, and evaluate country-adapted models of Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) – the recent WHO recommendation which includes what was previously called Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in four focus countries: Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, and Mozambique.
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    MICA: Seasonal vaccination with the RTSS/AS01 malaria vaccine given with or without seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC): an extension study
    Medical Research Council1 Jul 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Strengthening community engagement to support the R21/Matrix-M phase III seasonal vaccine trial in Bougouni Mali
    University of Oxford1 Mar 2021 - 31 Aug 2023
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    PMI-INSIGHTS
    Program for Appropriate Technology in Health7 Oct 2020 - 30 Jun 2025
    Consortium OR prioritisation + supportive supervision evaluation
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Tracey Smythe NIHR Global HPSR
    National Institute for Health Research1 Mar 2020 - 31 May 2021
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Set Up In Error Grant Now Closed
    Oxford Policy Management (UK)2 Jan 2019 - 30 Dec 2022
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Immunity Charm - Sponsorship for Phase 2: India Pilot Program
    McCann-Erickson USA Inc d/b/a McCann Global Health1 Jun 2018 - 30 Jun 2021
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Phase 2 Integration of family planning and immunization
    The Pfizer Foundation1 May 2018 - 30 Nov 2021
  • OTHER LSHTM GRANT
    Phase 2 Integration of family planning and immunization
    1 May 2018 - 30 Nov 2021
    People funded by this grant: Krishnaratne S, Hamon J, Webster J, Paintain L, Bruce J
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Dynamics of Health Care Utilization Strategies in the Context of RTSS/AS01 Vaccine Introduction
    Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine1 Apr 2018 - 31 Dec 2021
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Evaluation of intergrated delivery of immunisation and family planning in Benin Ethiopia Kenya Malawi and Uganda
    The Pfizer Foundation1 May 2017 - 31 Oct 2018
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    IMPROVE Trial - Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and azithromycin in high sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance areas of Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania
    Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine1 Dec 2016 - 31 May 2021
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    [EDCTP2] IMPP-ACT - Maximising the public health impact of interventions to control malaria in pregnancy through the translation of EDCTP-funded evidence-based global policies to country level policies and plans
    Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2018
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Uganda impact evaluation
    International Rescue Committee1 Jan 2016 - 30 Apr 2018
    People funded by this grant: Webster J, Bruce J
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Data For Decision Making
    Dept for International Development1 Oct 2014 - 30 Sep 2018
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    SToP MiP Kenya
    Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)1 Jul 2014 - 30 Jun 2015
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Tackling Visceral Leishmania in South Asia and Africa
    Mott MacDonald23 Apr 2014 - 31 Oct 2018
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Scale-Up of Malaria in Pregnancy Interventions
    Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine1 Dec 2011 - 31 Jan 2013
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Screening ANC reduce burden malaria in E Indonesia
    Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine1 Oct 2011 - 31 Dec 2016
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Support to the National Malaria Control Programme
    Malaria Consortium1 Apr 2009 - 31 Mar 2016
  • COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANT
    Effects of restricting the use of Artesunate
    Internal Gates ITGB5010 etc1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2013