Professor Claudia Estcourt
Professor of Sexual Health and HIV
Department of Nursing, Community and Public HealthProfessor Claudia Estcourt is a clinical professor in Sexual Health and HIV at GCU (Sexual Health and BBV research group) and co-lead the Beyond Blood Borne Viruses Research Programme.
Claudia is also Honorary Professor at University College London and a consultant physician in Glasgow, UK and Central and North West NHS Trust with over 20 years’ experience of specialist clinical academic practice. This includes substantive posts and multidisciplinary STI and HIV research experience in the UK, France, Australia, China, South Africa, and Canada.
Professor Estcourt research addresses three major public health priorities:
- Self-managed, digital healthcare, focussing on development and evaluation of complex online clinical care pathways within sexual health and HIV medicine (SEQUENCEdigital,org,uk)
- Preventing transmission of STIs and reducing undiagnosed HIV by increasing effectiveness of partner notification strategies by developing tailored interventions for those at highest risk (lustrum.org.uk),
- HIV PrEP public health programmes, implementation, clinical service development, evaluation and monitoring.
Claudia is an international coinvestigator for GetCheckedOnline (Canada) and Australia’s Sexual Health online programme.
She is also supervises PhD students at GCU and UCL, and several junior doctors within NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde on projects related to eSexual Health and developing an ePrEP clinic.