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Dr Claire Norcross

A head and shoulders photo of Claire Norcross in a blue dress in front of a cream wall

Dr Claire Norcross (MBBS MRCP MSc BSc DipHIV DipGUM DFSRH)

Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow
E: C.Norcross1@uni.bsms.ac.uk

Research areas: HIV drug resistance, HIV treatment

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Biography

Claire is a physician and clinical researcher in HIV and Sexual Health. She obtained her medical degree from King’s College London in 2014, and subsequently trained in general internal medicine in the Southeast. She has undertaken specialist training in Sexual Health and HIV in London and Brighton and has experience conducting clinical research in the UK and East Africa. She holds an MSc in Reproductive & Sexual Health Research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is currently undertaking a Wellcome Trust-funded clinical PhD fellowship in Uganda, examining HIV drug resistance in the context of long-acting injectable antiretroviral agents as treatment and prevention, with the aim of contributing to their safe use and implementation.

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Research

Claire’s research interests include access to testing and linkage to HIV and sexual healthcare in lower and middle-income settings, novel antiretroviral therapy strategies, HIV transmission prevention, and complex comorbidities in HIV.

Selected publications

C. Norcross, L. Achieng Ombajo, S. Kassim et al (2023): Long-acting antiretrovirals: research and implementation considerations in Africa. The Lancet HIV DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(23)00134-0

I. Mambule, C. Norcross, L. Achieng Ombajo et al (2024): Two-drug regimens for the treatment of HIV in Africa. The Lancet HIV DOI: 10.1016/ S2352-3018(24)00061-4

L. Cechin, C. Norcross, A. Oliveira et al (2022): Editorial Review: Obesity and diabetes in people of African ancestry with HIV. HIV Medicine DOI: 10.1111/hiv.13413

K. Childs, F. A. Post, C. Norcross et al (2020): Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 and Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Case Series. Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa657 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa657

C. Norcross, C. Fitzpatrick, D Richardson (2022): HIV Transmission and previous PrEP awareness and use in men who have sex with men in Brighton, UK. Sex Transm Infect DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2022-055456.