Dr. Elena SchmidtHaving been first trained in education and later on in public health and policy analysis, Dr Schmidt has over 15 years of experience in public health, health education and international development. Throughout her career she has worked for government authorities, international agencies, academic institutions and community-organisations. She has a wide range of national and overseas experience through the programmes in Western and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa. She has worked for and with the UK Department for International Development, World Health Organisation, United Nations Children’s Fund, and the European Commission. She has an extensive experience in a wide range of public health issues, including maternal and child health, family planning, prevention of non-communicable disease, sustainable development and control of HIV/AIDS. Between 2003 and 2006 she worked at Imperial College London, where she was Scientific Coordinator and later the acting Scientific Director of the DFID-funded programme "Knowledge for action in HIV/AIDS".
In March 2006, she joined the University of East London first as a senior lecturer and the head of the MSc programmes in public health and health promotion. In November 2008 she was appointed as the Director for Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Health and Human Development. During her time at UEL she worked for a number of research projects focusing on the impact of structural determinants on health in deprived communities in London. She is also the head of the team delivering a population survey in 20 deprived areas under the Well London programme.
Chalmers B, Samarskaya M, Tkatchenko E*., Wallington T. (1998) Women’s experiences of birth in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Journal of reproductive and Infant Psychology, 16: 243-258.
Chalmers B., Muggah H., Samarskaya M, Tkatchenko E. (1998) The WHO- Canada- St. Petersburg Maternal Child health Programme: The healthy Cities Project Journal of Society of obstetricians and gynaecologists of Canada, 20: 43-51.
Chalmers B., Muggah H., Samarskaya M, Tkatchenko E. (1998) Women’s experiences of birth in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation following a Maternal Child health intervention program. Birth. Issues in Prenatal Care, 25(2): 107- 116.
Chalmers B., Sand M., Muggah H., Oblivanova L, Almazova N., Tkatchenko E. (1998) Contraceptive knowledge , attitudes and use among women attending health clinics in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The Canadian Journal of Health Sexuality, 7 (2): 129- 137.
Tkatchenko E., McKee M., Tsouros A.D. (2000) Public health in Russia: the view from inside.
Health Policy and Planning 15(2): 164-169.
Wall M., Tkatchenko-Schmidt E*. and Renton (2006) A. Sexual Behaviour in Russia: Who exhibits a higher risk. International Journal of STD and AIDS
Tkatchenko-Schmidt E., Renron A., Gevorgyan R., Davydenko L and Atun R. (2007) Prevention of HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users in Russia: opportunities and barriers to scaling- up of harm reduction programmes. Health Policy 85: 162-71
Tobi P, George G., Schmidt E., Renton A.(2008) Antiretroviral treatment and the health workforce in South Africa: how have ART workers been affected by scaling up? Tropical Medicine & International Health 13(12): 1452-8.
Wall M, Hayes, R., Moore D, Petticrew M., Clow A, Schmidt E., Draper A., Lock K., Lynch R., Renton A. (2009) Evaluation of community level interventions to address social and structural determinants of health: a cluster randomised controlled trial BMC Public Health 9: 207, available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/207
Schmidt E., Atun R., Wall M., Tobi P., Schmidt J., Renton A. (2009) Why do health systems matter? Exploring links between HIV/AIDS and wider health systems. Health policy and planning (accepted, in print)
George G . Atujuna M, Gentile J, Quinlan T, Schmidt E, Tobi P, Renton A (2009) The impact of ART scale up on health workers: evidence from two South African districts. AIDS Care (reviewed, minor revisions requested)
Wall M, Schmidt E, Sarang A., Renton A, Atun R. (2009) HIV, sex, drugs and economic behaviour in Russia: socio-economic characteristics of high risk populations. International Journal of Drug Policy (reviewed, revisions requested)
* Early publications were under the name Tkatchenko or Tkatchenko-Schmidt.
Tkatchenko E*. “Public health reforms in Russia: a view from inside”, EU/WHO International Conference on health and sustainable development in Europe, Turku, September 1998.
Tkatchenko E. “Assessment of health needs and strategic health planning: lessons learnt from Healthy cities project in St. Petersburg, Alma-Aty, March 1999.
Tkatchenko E. “Developing policies in health: experience of the health promotion policy in Vologda region”, WHO International course in health systems management for CIS countries, Moscow, June 2000.
Tkatchenko E. and Aarva P. “Implementation and results of the EU/Tacis Preventive Health Care Project”, EU International Conference on health promotion and disease prevention Moscow, June 2001.
Tkatchenko E. and Renton A. “Knowledge for action in HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation”, World Bank Public health Seminar, April 2003.
Tkatchenko E. and Renton A. “Key results of the Knowledge for action in HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation”, Russian Intersectoral Committee on AIDS meeting, Moscow, June 2005
Tkatchenko E. et al. “Perception of HIV/AIDS epidemic and response in Russia”, UN Extended Thematic Group on AIDS meeting, Moscow, September 2005.
Tkatchenko E., Gevorgyan R., Filippov A., Sultanov A., Gorshkova N., Demjanenko E. Renton A “Opportunities and barriers to implementation of HIV interventions in Russia”, Russian Annual AIDS Conference, Suzdal, October 2005.
Tkatchenko E. “ Knowledge for action in HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation: Key findings”, 1st Annual Conferences on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, Moscow, May 2006
Tkatchenko E.. “Attitudes to HIV/AIDS among Russian public and policy-makers”: qualitative research, DFID Knowledge for Action Policy Seminar, January 2006
Tkatchenko E. “ Barriers to effective HIV prevention among vulnerable populations”, DFID Knowledge for Action Policy Seminar, January 2006
* Early presentations were under the name Tkatchenko or Tkatchenko-Schmidt.
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