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Jo Middleton
Summary
Dr Jo Middleton is a Research Fellow at University of Sussex, jointly appointed in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, and the Department of Global Health and Infection (Brighton and Sussex Medical School) and the Department of Ecology & Evolution (School of Life Sciences).
Presently, they are mainly improving scabies outbreak control in Britain & Ethiopia, and integrating medicine and conservation in Papua New Guinea. More broadly, their research and teaching concerns medical parasitology (especially regarding mites and ticks), neglected tropical skin diseases, and planetary health (safeguarding human health & its underpinning natural systems). Before joining the University as a researcher in 2014, Jo worked in emergency care and taught courses for Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust staff and those travelling to remote areas. They have a long term commitment to conservation, particularly forest preservation & indigenous health in Oceania (>25 years).
CURRENT RESEARCH [2025]
* Principle Investigator: Controlling scabies outbreaks and understanding dermatoses of public health concern in residential care for the elderly, refugee/migrant settings and other semi-closed institutions. Funder: NIHR ARC KSS
* Principle Investigator: Novel diagnostic tests, infection control, and vaccination regimes for infectious diseases in residential and home care for the elderly. Funder: NIHR ARC KSS
* PhD Supervisor and Research Fellow: NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Neglected Tropical Diseases at BSMS. Funder: NIHR Global.
* Co-applicant and lead author: Integrating action and policy on health, biodiversity, and climate in Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, and across Melanesia. Funder: Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP).
* Applicant: Ecology of Lyme disease. Funders: British Ecological Society; Royal Society of Biology; British Deer Society, Nineveh Charitable Trust
PAST RESEARCH
* Co-Investigator and lead author: Supporting integration of conservation and public health in the upland forests of Bougainville and the lowlands forests of Sepu, Papua New Guinea. Funder: SSRP.
* Co-Investigator: Epidemic modelling and statistical support for policy: sub-populations, forecasting, and long-term planning. Funder: UKRI
* Co-Investigator and lead author (50% intellectual share of 4 Co-Is): Integrating conservation and health in PNG's vulnerable rainforests. Funder: DEFRA
* Co-Investigator: Improving food security and protecting rainforest biodiversity and carbon stocks in indigenous communities recovering from COVID-19 in PNG. Funder: SSRP.
* Co-Investigator and lead author: Mapping COVID-19 impacts on PNG conservation and building a collaboration between ecology, arts, and the humanities to help preserve forests and indigenous land rights. Funder: GCRF.
* Co-Investigator and lead author: Surfaces: an interdisciplinary project to understand and enhance health in the vulnerable rainforests of PNG. Funder: SSRP
* Scabies Outbreaks in Residential Care. Funders: Public Health England; British Skin Foundation; ESRC.
Conservation Biology Ecology Epidemiology Infectious Diseases
