UCL Institute for Global Health
Lecturer, Co-Director Global Health and Development MSc
The UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH) is a world-leading centre of research and teaching excellence in global health. We believe there is no single solution to the world’s health problems. A cross-disciplinary approach is at the heart of our research and teaching, and we draw on the expertise of over 200 staff from across UCL.
DB Peru
Medical Director (to 2019)
Working with local leaders, DB Peru works to improve access to healthcare and education in the most remote villages along the lower Napo River in the Peruvian Amazon. The mission of DB Peru is to partner with local communities to facilitate sustainable access to healthcare and education for the people of the Amazon.
Altro Foundation
Board Member
Established in 2016, the Altro Foundation is dedicated to transforming healthcare spaces to help some of the most vulnerable communities around the world. Our vision is to improve the quality of life for the more vulnerable communities around the world with innovative spaces that transform their experience of healthcare.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Shannon G, Muraya K, Zeinali Z, et al. Not just a question of identity: global intersectional insights on racism and health. The Lancet. 2020 (thematic series, in publication)
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Oseni Z, Shannon G. The relationship between Indigenous and allopathic health practitioners in Africa and its implications for collaboration: a qualitative synthesis.2020. Accepted for publication, Global Health Action.
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Palmer T, Jennings H, Shannon G, Salustri F, Grewal G, Chelagat W, et al. Improving Access to Diabetes Care for Children: An Evaluation of Novo Nordisk’s Changing Diabetes in Children project in Kenya and Bangladesh. 2020. In publication, Global Health Action
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Wu D, Shannon G, Jha P. Implications of household tobacco and alcohol use on child health and women’s welfare in six low and middle-income countries: An analysis from a gender perspective. 2020. In publication, Tobacco Control
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Minckas N, Shannon G, Mannell J. The role of participation and community mobilisation in preventing violence against women and girls: a programme review and critique. Global Health Action. 2020; 13 (1):1775061
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D Devakumar, S Selvarajah, G Shannon, K Muraya, S Lasoye, S Corona, et al. Racism, the public health crisis we can no longer ignore. Lancet. 2020; 395(10242): e112–e113.
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Shannon G, Minckas N, Tan D, Batura N, Hagparast-Bidgoli H, Mannell J. Feminization of the health workforce and wage conditions of health professions: an exploratory analysis. Human Resources for Health. 2019;17(72): doi:10.1186/s12960-019-0406-0
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Shannon G, Jansen M, Williams K, Caceres C, Motta A, Odihambo A, Eleveld A, Mannell J. Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter? (commissioned article for the Lancet theme issue of Women in Medicine, Science and Global Health) Lancet. 2019;393:560-569
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Quilty S, Shannon G, Scrimejour S, Roberts J, Maloney M, Lawton P. Reducing hospital presentations by addressing profound Indigenous disadvantage: a collaborative community response in remote Northern Australia. (Accepted for publication Oct 2019: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
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Collins J, Bowie D, Shannon G. A Descriptive Analysis of Health Practices, Barriers to Healthcare and the Unmet Need for Cervical Cancer Screening in the Lower Napo River Region of the Peruvian Amazon. (Accepted for publication Oct 2019: Women’s Health)
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Shannon G, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Chelagat W, Kibachio J, Skordis-Worrall J. Innovating to increase access to diabetes care in Kenya: evaluation of Novo Nordisk’s base of the pyramid project. Global Health Action. 2019; 12:1
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Ochieng C, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Batura N, Odhiambo A, Shannon G, et al. Conditional cash transfers to retain rural Kenyan women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2019;20:152
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Shannon G, Motta A, Caceres C, Skordis-Worrall J, Bowie D, Prost A. Somos Iguales? Using a structural violence framework to understand gender and health inequities from an intersectional perspective in the Peruvian Amazon. Global Health Action. 2017;10(sup2):1330458
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Quilty S, Shannon G, Sargent W, Banner J, Yao A. Factors Associated with Frequent Emergency Department Attendance at Katherine Hospital. MJA. 2016; 204(3):111e1-7
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Shannon G, Alberg C, Nacul L, Pashayan N. Preconception Healthcare and Congenital Disorders: Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Preconception Care Programs in the Prevention of Congenital Disorders. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2014; 18(6):1354-1379
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Shannon G, Alberg C, Nacul L, Pashayan N. Preconception Healthcare Delivery at a Population Level: Construction of Public Health Models of Preconception Care. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2014; 18(6):1512-1531
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Shannon G, Alberg C, Nacul L, Pashayan N. Preconception health care and congenital disorders: mathematical modelling of the impact of a preconception care programme on congenital disorders. BJOG. 2013;120(5):555-66
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Shannon G, Katzlenick L, Im D, Franco O. Millennium Development Goal Three: Evaluating gender equity in South Asia. Women Health. 2013;53(3):217-43
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Shannon G, Pashayan N, Franco O. Cervical Cancer in Indigenous women: the case of Australia. Maturitas. 2011: 70(3);234-245
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Lopez AB, Shannon G, Franco O. Is there a role for vitamin D on prevention of diabetes and metabolic syndrome? Practical Diabetes International. 2011:28(2);54-55
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G Shannon, R Sekar, R Kimble. Septic shock following cervical cerclage for advanced cervical dilation. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2011:51(5);469-470
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Shannon G, Holden P. Community Health Workers: The heart of the Lower Napo River. PLoS Global Health Blog. 2018.
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Shannon G, Collins J. The ABCs of cervical cancer prevention in remote locations. PLoS Global Health Blog. 2017.
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Shannon G. Refugees in their own land: how Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia. The Conversation UK. 2016.
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Shannon G. Why climate change is very bad for your health. The Conversation UK. 2014.
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Shannon G. Homeless fall between healthcare cracks, but fresh approaches can help them. The Conversation UK. 2014.
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Shannon G. Women worse off when it comes to natural disasters. The Conversation UK. 2014.
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G Shannon, D Baartz. Anterior Sacral meningocele masking as ovarian pathology in a patient with Marfan Syndrome. Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, 2010
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G Shannon, B Ng. Improving clinical outcomes in non-elective caesarean sections: an audit of the decision to delivery interval and the effectiveness of the re-classification of caesarean sections. Audit performed at Nambour General Hospital Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, Queensland, 2000