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Charlotte Helen Watts, CMG, FMedSci (born 1962) is a British mathematician, epidemiologist, and academic. Since 2006, she has been Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was also the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department for International Development from 2015 to 2020. Her research interests include HIV and gender-based violence.

Early life and education

Born in Farnborough, Kent, England in 1962, she was educated at Falmouth School, a state school in Cornwall.[2] She studied mathematics and pure mathematics at university.[3][4] She graduated from Exeter College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1984, and from Marlboro College (in Vermont, US) with a Master of Science (MSc) degree in 1986.[2] She then attended the University of Warwick, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in mathematics in 1990:[5] her doctoral thesis concerned the "stochastic stability of diffeomorphisms".[4][6]

Career

Watts was a Royal Society Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 1991 to 1993.[5] She then moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) as a lecturer in 1994. She was a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe from 1994 to 1997, before returning to LSHTM.[2][7][3][4] She has been Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) since 2006.[5] She was Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for International Development from 2015 to 2020.[8]

Watts founded the Gender Violence Research Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[9] This team collaborated in 2012 with Liz Kelly and colleagues at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University and Nicole Westmarland and her research team at Durham University's Crime, Violence and Abuse group to assess the impact of community domestic violence perpetrator programmes on women and children's safety, as well as investigating related questions such as which specific factors enable violent men to change their behaviour.[10] The research was supported by Respect, the UK's umbrella organisation for domestic violence perpetrator programmes.[11]

Watts has done field work on gender based violence at the Musasa Project in Zimbabwe. The project is a women's NGO working to address the widespread violence against women in Zimbabwe.[12] Her former doctoral students include Cathy Zimmerman.[1]

Other activities

Personal life

Watts is married and has two sons.[2]

Honours and awards

In 2015, Watts was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[15] In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) "for services to global health and international development".[16]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b Zimmerman, Cathy (2007). Trafficking in women. The health of women in post-trafficking services in Europe who were trafficked into prostitution or sexually abused as domestic labourers. lshtm.ac.uk (PhD thesis). London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. doi:10.17037/PUBS.01343272. OCLC 1006139318. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.498767.
  2. ^ a b c d "Watts, Prof. Charlotte Helen". Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286527. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Charlotte Watts". STRIVE. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Watts, Geoff (30 January 2016). "Charlotte Watts: from pure maths to HIV and gender-based violence" (PDF). The Lancet. 387 (10017): 425. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00180-X. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 26869560. S2CID 1622519. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "Watts, Prof. Charlotte Helen, (born 5 Oct. 1962), Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, since 2006; Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for International Development, since 2015". Who's Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286527.
  6. ^ Watts, Charlotte Helen (1990). Stochastic stability of diffeomorphisms. Warwick Library (Thesis). University of Warwick. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Professor Charlotte Watts PhD FMedSci". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  8. ^ "DFID Chief Scientific Adviser: Professor Charlotte Watts". GOV.UK. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Professor Charlotte Watts and Catherine Page receive honours". Exeter College. 18 July 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  10. ^ "Multi site research into perpetrator programme outcomes". Respect. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  11. ^ Charity Commission (2012). "Charity Commission overview: 1083968-Respect". Retrieved 22 September 2012.
  12. ^ Njovana, Eunice; Watts, Charlotte (1 May 1996). "Gender violence in Zimbabwe: A need for collaborative action". Reproductive Health Matters. 4 (7): 46–55. doi:10.1016/S0968-8080(96)90005-1. ISSN 0968-8080.
  13. ^ Board Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
  14. ^ Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research Archived 11 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR).
  15. ^ "Professor Charlotte Watts". The Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  16. ^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B3.
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