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Dr Vasso Anagnostopoulou

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Dr Vasso Anagnostopoulou

Research Fellow in Medical Statistics
E: V.Anagnostopoulou@bsms.ac.uk
Location: Watson Building, Dept. of Primary Care & Public Health, University of Brighton Falmer Campus, BN1 9PH

Areas of expertise: Medical statistics, clinical trials methodology, mathematics (dynamical systems)

Research areas: Global Health, Hepatology, Cardiology

Biography

Vasso is a Research Fellow in Medical Statistics at the Brighton & Sussex Medical School. She completed her PhD in Mathematics (Dynamical Systems) at Queen Mary, University of London and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at TU Dresden in Germany, Imperial College London (as a Marie Curie Intra-European-Fellow) and Queen Mary, University of London.

Vasso joined BSMS in 2019, supporting the research activities of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and in 2023, she completed her MSc in Medical Statistics at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is currently working as a statistician and data manager at the NIHR Global Health Research Unit for NTDs and the NIHR 5S Foundation, and as a statistician at the Brighton & Sussex Clinical Trials Unit (REDUCe 2 trial and Chelsea II trial).

Selected publications

L.D. Sharples, V. Anagnostopoulou, A. Pouncey, C. Freeman, A. McCarthy, J. Gray, P. McMeekin, P. Sastry, L. Vale, C. Bicknell, S. Large. Analysis of longitudinal health-related quality of life data from the ETTAA observational cohort study of people with chronic thoracic aortic aneurysms British Journal of Surgery, Volume 111, Issue 9, September 2024. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znae228

Y. Haddadin, V. Anagnostopoulou, S. Bremner, H. Harder, R. Starkings, D. Lambert, A. Porges, N. Perry, A. Arbon, H. Gage, M. Clover, L. Macken, M. Johnston, B. Ganai, D. Joshi, B. Hudson, C. Butler, A. Richardson, M. Wright, W. Prentice, A. O’Brien, J. Bedlington, S. Steer, T. Gaskin, S. Verma. Palliative Long-term Abdominal Drains vs. Large Volume Paracentesis for Refractory Ascites Secondary to Cirrhosis: Study Protocol for a Multicentre Randomised Controlled trial. BMC Trials, 2024. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5836531

K. Engdawork, G. Tadele, V. Anagnostopoulou, P. Nahar, G. Davey, S. Zaman. Improving health behaviours and attitudes around podoconiosis in Northern Western Ethiopia: Implementation and intervention effectiveness. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 18(9): e0012507, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012507

A. Oumer, A. Mihretu, N. Hounsome, V. Anagnostopoulou, S.A. Bremner, M. Kinfe, A. Mengiste, M. Semrau, A. Fekadu, G. Davey. Impact and cost-effectiveness of an integrated holistic care package on persons affected by podoconiosis, lymphatic filariasis and leprosy and community members in north-western Ethiopia: an implementation research study, BMC Medicine volume 23, Article number: 284, 2025. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-04108-9

Tora A, Bremner S, Ali O, Kinfe M, Mengiste A, Anagnostopoulou V, Fekadu A, Davey G, Semrau M. The role of a community conversation intervention in reducing stigma related to lower limb lymphoedema in Northern Ethiopia. BMC Health Services Research. 2024 Mar 19;24(1):353. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10864-w

Anagnostopoulou V, Pötzsche C, Rasmussen M. Nonautonomous Bifurcation Theory: Concepts and Tools. Springer Nature; 2023 May 31. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-29842-4

Anagnostopoulou, V. (2019). Stochastic dominance for shift-invariant measures. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems 39(2):667-682. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019027

Anagnostopoulou V., Jaeger T., Keller G. (2015). A model for the nonautonomous Hopf bifurcation, Nonlinearity 28(7):2587-2616. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/28/7/2587

Anagnostopoulou V., Jaeger T. (2012). Nonautonomous saddle-node bifurcations: Random and deterministic forcing. Journal of Differential Equations 253(2):379-399. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2012.03.016

V. Anagnostopoulou, O. Jenkinson. Which beta-shifts have a largest invariant measure? Journal of the London Mathematical Society 79 (2009), pp. 445–464. doi: 10.1112/jlms/jdn070

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