Professor Lucy Platt
Lucy’s research focusses on the evaluation of complex interventions for marginalised populations including people who use drugs, sell sex or who are experiencing homelessness. She uses participatory approaches working closely with individuals, service users and services affected by the issue to formulate questions, design and implement the research, interpret findings and translate them into practice. Her interests are interdisciplinary, and she applies mixed methods but oriented towards epidemiological approaches, quasi-experimental study designs, evidence syntheses, surveys and use of existing data sets.
Examples of Lucy’s work include the evaluation of the Safe Inhalation Pipe Provision project that distributes smoking equipment and harm reduction advice to people who use crack. The Sex Worker Evaluate Reporting Violence (SWERV) project is a mixed method evaluation of community-based reporting system to prevent violence and support among people who sell sex. A priority area of her work is HIV and hepatitis C prevention among sex workers and people who inject drugs populations who remain most at risk to HIV infection despite achievements in reaching treatment coverage goals set by the WHO.
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