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  • 2012 - Chalmers Medal, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Overview

Stephen D. Lawn was affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focused on Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Surgery, Neurology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics of their research included:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Health Policy Implementation Science

Stephen D. Lawn contributed to several papers, including:

  • Systematic or Test-Guided Treatment for Tuberculosis in HIV-Infected Adults, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Determine TB-LAM point-of-care tuberculosis assay predicts poor outcomes in outpatients during their first year of antiretroviral therapy in South Africa, 2020, BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Determining the future role of clinical practice guidelines: The experience of Australia and New Zealand, 2024, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: case definitions for use in resource-limited settings, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Effect of parenchymal abnormalities on bioaerosol production by patients with TB, 2022, The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Frequent coauthors included:

  • F.-X. Blanc
  • Anani Badjé
  • Maryline Bonnet
  • Delphine Gabillard
  • Eugène Messou

Publication venues where Stephen D. Lawn frequently published were:

  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Stephen D. Lawn was awarded the Chalmers Medal by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: case definitions for use in resource-limited settings.

    Graeme Meintjes;Stephen D Lawn;Stephen D Lawn;Fabio Scano;Gary Maartens

  • Early mortality among adults accessing antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Stephen D Lawn;Anthony D Harries;Xavier Anglaret;Landon Myer

  • Immune reconstitution disease associated with mycobacterial infections in HIV-infected individuals receiving antiretrovirals

    Stephen D Lawn;Stephen D Lawn;Linda-Gail Bekker;Robert F Miller

  • HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa: an urgent need to escalate the public health response.

    Salim Safurdeen. Abdool Karim;Salim Safurdeen. Abdool Karim;Gavin J. Churchyard;Quarraisha. Abdool Karim;Quarraisha. Abdool Karim;Stephen D. Lawn

  • Xpert® MTB/RIF assay: development, evaluation and implementation of a new rapid molecular diagnostic for tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance

    Stephen D Lawn;Mark P Nicol;Mark P Nicol

  • Advances in tuberculosis diagnostics: the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and future prospects for a point-of-care test

    Stephen D Lawn;Peter Mwaba;Peter Mwaba;Matthew Bates;Amy Piatek

  • Development of a standardized screening rule for tuberculosis in people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings: individual participant data meta-analysis of observational studies.

    Haileyesus Getahun;Wanitchaya Kittikraisak;Charles M. Heilig;Elizabeth L. Corbett

  • Antiretroviral Therapy for Prevention of Tuberculosis in Adults with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Amitabh B. Suthar;Stephen D. Lawn;Stephen D. Lawn;Julia del Amo;Haileyesus Getahun

  • Tuberculosis among HIV-infected patients receiving HAART: long term incidence and risk factors in a South African cohort.

    Stephen D Lawn;Motasim Badri;Robin Wood

  • Burden of tuberculosis in an antiretroviral treatment programme in sub-Saharan Africa: impact on treatment outcomes and implications for tuberculosis control.

    Stephen D Lawn;Landon Myer;Linda-Gail Bekker;Robin Wood

  • Early mortality among adults accessing a community-based antiretroviral service in South Africa: implications for programme design.

    Stephen D Lawn;Landon Myer;Catherine Orrell;Linda-Gail Bekker

  • Contribution of Immune Activation to the Pathogenesis and Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection

    Stephen D. Lawn;Salvatore T. Butera;Thomas M. Folks

  • Tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution disease: incidence, risk factors and impact in an antiretroviral treatment service in South Africa.

    Stephen D Lawn;Landon Myer;Linda-Gail Bekker;Robin Wood

  • Soluble Forms of Toll-Like Receptor (TLR)2 Capable of Modulating TLR2 Signaling Are Present in Human Plasma and Breast Milk

    Emmanuel LeBouder;Julia E. Rey-Nores;Neil K. Rushmere;Martin Grigorov

  • Short-term and long-term risk of tuberculosis associated with CD4 cell recovery during antiretroviral therapy in South Africa

    Stephen D Lawn;Landon Myer;David Edwards;Linda-Gail Bekker

  • Screening for HIV-Associated Tuberculosis and Rifampicin Resistance before Antiretroviral Therapy Using the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay: A Prospective Study

    Stephen D. Lawn;Sophie V. Brooks;Katharina Kranzer;Katharina Kranzer;Mark P. Nicol;Mark P. Nicol

  • Diagnostic accuracy of a low-cost, urine antigen, point-of-care screening assay for HIV-associated pulmonary tuberculosis before antiretroviral therapy: a descriptive study

    Stephen D Lawn;Stephen D Lawn;Andrew D Kerkhoff;Andrew D Kerkhoff;Monica Vogt;Robin Wood

  • The HIV-associated tuberculosis epidemic--when will we act?

    Anthony D Harries;Anthony D Harries;Rony Zachariah;Elizabeth L Corbett;Elizabeth L Corbett;Stephen D Lawn;Stephen D Lawn

  • Prevalence of tuberculosis in post-mortem studies of HIV-infected adults and children in resource-limited settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Rishi K. Gupta;Sebastian B. Lucas;Katherine L. Fielding;Stephen D. Lawn

  • Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis

    Stephen D Lawn;Robert Wilkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin Wood
Robin Wood University of Cape Town
Linda-Gail Bekker
Linda-Gail Bekker University of Cape Town
Anthony D. Harries
Anthony D. Harries International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Graeme Meintjes
Graeme Meintjes University of Cape Town
Elizabeth L. Corbett
Elizabeth L. Corbett London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Landon Myer
Landon Myer University of Cape Town
Robert J. Wilkinson
Robert J. Wilkinson The Francis Crick Institute
Mark P. Nicol
Mark P. Nicol University of Western Australia
Clare Gilbert
Clare Gilbert London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Katherine Fielding
Katherine Fielding University of London

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