Dr Teteh Champion
PhD Student
Teteh completed her PhD in 2022 and is now working in policy and research implementation at Cancer Research UK. Her PhD research was focused on investigating soil contamination by human faeces. She developed an environmental DNA (eDNA)-qPCR-based method to detect S. mansoni in soil samples. She field-tested this assay using soils from a community in Uganda with a high schistosomiasis endemicity and low coverage of safely managed sanitation. In addition to specifically detecting S. mansoni, she also used faecal indicator bacteria as a proxy for the presence of S. mansoni in soils.
She can be contacted via her LinkedIn.