Lesley Drake

Imperial College London — United Kingdom

Nursing · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Child Nutrition and Water Access(60), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare(29), Parasites and Host Interactions(24), Global Maternal and Child Health(19), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet(12)

Publications114 total

The power of peer review and the wonderful partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology: we must keep them together
Fertility and Sterility·2025
Exploring smallholder farmers’ access and participation in the Home Grown School Feeding Programme in selected counties of Kenya
Frontiers in Public Health·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The SABER School Feeding policy tool: a 10-year analysis of its use by countries in developing policies for their national school meals programs
Frontiers in Public Health·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
The double burden of malnutrition in individuals: Identifying key challenges and re‐thinking research focus
Nutrition Bulletin·2024· 25 citedOpen Access
Investigating the effect of a school-based WASH intervention on soil-transmitted helminth and schistosome infections and nutritional status of school children in Ethiopia: a quasi-experimental study
Parasites & Vectors·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Contextual factors affecting integration of eye health into school health programme in Zanzibar: a qualitative health system research
BMC Health Services Research·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
A positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the counterfactual experience of school closures is accelerating a multisectoral response to the treatment of neglected tropical diseases
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Nigerian National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme Sourcebook
WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks·2023
Editorial: COVID-19: School and community feeding programs for children and young people
Frontiers in Public Health·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Does an integrated school eye health delivery model perform better than a vertical model in a real-world setting? A non-randomised interventional comparative implementation study in Zanzibar
British Journal of Ophthalmology·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Stakeholders’ perception of possible integration pathways for eye health into school health programme in Zanzibar: a qualitative health system research
2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Is an integrated model of school eye health delivery more cost-effective than a vertical model? An implementation research in Zanzibar
BMJ Open Ophthalmology·2021· 15 citedOpen Access
The Broader Economic Value of School Feeding Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Estimating the Multi-Sectoral Returns to Public Health, Human Capital, Social Protection, and the Local Economy
Frontiers in Public Health·2020· 47 citedOpen Access
Establishing Global School Feeding Program Targets: How Many Poor Children Globally Should Be Prioritized, and What Would Be the Cost of Implementation?
Frontiers in Public Health·2020· 28 citedOpen Access
The Role of Health in Education and Human Capital: Why an Integrated Approach to School Health Could Make a Difference in the Futures of Schoolchildren in Low-Income Countries
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene·2020· 12 citedOpen Access
National mapping of soil-transmitted helminth and schistosome infections in Ethiopia
Parasites & Vectors·2020· 113 citedOpen Access
National mapping of soil-transmitted helminth and schistosome infections in Ethiopia
Research Square (Research Square)·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
National mapping of soil-transmitted helminth and schistosome infections in Ethiopia
2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: governments must balance the uncertainty and risks of reopening schools against the clear harms associated with prolonged closure
Archives of Disease in Childhood·2020· 173 citedOpen Access
Is an integrated model of school eye health delivery more cost effective than a vertical model? An implementation research in Zanzibar
2020· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Donald A. P. Bundy(25), Carmen Burbano(9), Aulo Gelli(9), Matthew Jukes(8), Elisabetta Aurino(7), Meena Fernandes(7), Louise Banham(5), Josephine Kiamba(5), Bachir Sarr(5), Nilanthi de Silva(4), Linda Schultz(4), Harold Alderman(4), Laura J. Appleby(4), Peter Colenso(4), Mai Lu(4), Arlene Mitchell(4), Jack E. T. Grimes(4), Iain Gardiner(4), Elodie Yard(4), Ramanan Laxminarayan(3)