Professor Claudia Estcourt
Professor of Sexual Health and HIV
Department of Nursing and Community Health
Professor Claudia Estcourt is a clinical professor in Sexual Health and HIV at GCU (Sexual Health and BBV research group) and co-lead the Beyond Blood Borne Viruses Research Programme (https://www.gcu.ac.uk/research/beyond-blood-borne-viruses). Claudia is also Honorary Professor at University College London and a consultant physician in Glasgow, UK and Central and North West NHS Trust with over twenty years’ experience of specialist clinical academic practice. This includes substantive posts and multidisciplinary STI and HIV research experience in the UK, France, Australia, China, South Africa, and Canada.
Professor Estcourt research addresses three major public health priorities:
1) Self-managed, digital healthcare, focussing on development and evaluation of complex online clinical care pathways within sexual health and HIV medicine (SEQUENCEdigital,org,uk)
Key paper: Estcourt CS, Gibbs J, Sutcliffe LJ, Gkatzidou V, Tickle L, Hone K, Aicken C, Lowndes CM, Harding-Esch EM, Eaton S, Oakeshott P, Szczepura A, Ashcroft RE, Copas A, Nettleship A, Sadiq ST, Sonnenberg P. The eSexual Health Clinic System management, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: exploratory studies in people testing for Chlamydia trachomatis Lancet Public Health 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(17)30034-8
2) Preventing transmission of STIs and reducing undiagnosed HIV by increasing effectiveness of partner notification strategies by developing tailored interventions for those at highest risk (lustrum.org.uk),
Key paper: Estcourt CS, Oliver Stirrup, Andrew Copas, Nicola Low, Fiona Mapp, John Saunders, Catherine H Mercer, Paul Flowers, Tracy Roberts, Alison R Howarth, Melvina Woode Owusu, Merle Symonds, Rak Nandwani, Chidubem Ogwulu, Susannah Brice, Anne M Johnson, Christian L Althaus, Eleanor Williams, Alex Comer, Anna Tostevin, Jackie A Cassell. Accelerated partner therapy contact tracing for people with chlamydia: The LUSTRUM cluster cross-over randomised controlled trial. Lancet Public Health 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00204-3
3) HIV PrEP public health programmes, implementation, clinical service development, evaluation and monitoring.
Key paper: Estcourt CS, Yeung A, Nandwani R, Goldberg G, Cullen B, Steedman N, Wallace L, Hutchinson S. Population-level effectiveness of a national HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programme in men who have sex with men. AIDS 2021 AIDS: March 15, 2021 - Volume 35 - Issue 4 - p 665-673 doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002790
Claudia is an international coinvestigator for GetCheckedOnline (Canada) and Australia’s Sexual Health online programme.
She is also supervises PhD students at GCU and UCL, and several junior doctors within NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde on projects related to eSexual Health and developing an ePrEP clinic.
Key words: sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV, PrEP, Blood borne viruses, digital health, transmission