Peter MacPherson

Biographic Data

ID5653266
NAMEPeter MacPherson
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEMacPherson
SIGNATUREMACPHERSON P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Liverpool
ORCID0000-0002-0329-9613
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1881
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Tuberculosis comorbidities, multimorbidity and mortality amongst adults in South Africa

    Open AccessGreta K Wood, Rachel L Byrne et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Tuberculosis (TB) comorbidities and multimorbidity - the presence of two or more concurrent diseases or health conditions - are major contributors to TB incidence and mortality. We investigated the prevalence and associated mortality of TB comorbidities and multimorbidity in South Africa. We conducted a prospective cohort study of adults ≥15 years with bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary TB, nested within a trial in two provinces of South Afric…

  • Perceived gender equitable norms and previous tuberculosis testing in Malawi

    Open AccessElizabeth Di Giacomo, Emily S Nightingale et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Substantial evidence demonstrates that men have a higher prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) and decreased use of TB services compared to women. Gender roles and norms contribute to these disparities by influencing social and structural determinants, as well as individual behaviours. In this analysis, we investigated attitudes towards gender equitable norms and TB testing behaviours amongst Malawian men and women participating in a prevalence survey …

  • Distribution and transmission of M. tuberculosis in a high-HIV prevalence city in Malawi

    Open AccessMelanie H Chitwood, Elizabeth L Corbett et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Delays in identifying and treating individuals with infectious tuberculosis (TB) contribute to poor health outcomes and allow ongoing community transmission of M. tuberculosis ( Mtb ). Current recommendations for screening for tuberculosis specify community characteristics (e.g., areas with high local tuberculosis prevalence) that can be used to target screening within the general population. However, areas of higher tuberculosis burden are not n…

  • The prevalence of gestational syphilis in Malawi between 2014 and 2022

    Open AccessJames Chirombo, Annielisa Majamanda et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: Mother-to-child transmission of syphilis remains high especially in the WHO AFRO region with a prevalence of 1.62%, resulting in a congenital syphilis rate of 1,119 per 100,000 live births. Elimination efforts can be supported by an understanding of the spatial and temporal changes in disease over time, which can identify priority areas for targeted interventions aimed at reducing transmission. Methods: We collated routine surveillanc…

  • Respiratory symptoms after TB treatment completion

    Open AccessJamilah Meghji, Wezi Msukwa-Panje et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) survivors experience a high burden of residual and recurrent respiratory symptoms after TB treatment completion. However, guidelines for the investigation and care of symptomatic TB-survivors are limited. We used qualitative methods to explore patient and provider understandings, experience and practice around respiratory symptoms in the post-TB period. We conducted in-depth interviews with PTB-survivors who had exper…

  • Treatment preferences among people at risk of developing tuberculosis

    Open AccessWala Kamchedzera, Matthew Quaife et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Diagnosing and treating people with bacteriologically-negative but radiologically-apparent tuberculosis (TB) may contribute to more effective TB care and reduce transmission. However, optimal treatment approaches for this group are unknown. It is important to understand peoples’ preferences of treatment options for effective programmatic implementation of people-centred treatment approaches. We designed and implemented a discrete choice experimen…

  • Household antibiotic use in Malawi

    Open AccessEleanor E Macpherson, John Mankhomwa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant threat to public health. Use of antibiotics, particularly in contexts where weaker regulatory frameworks make informal access easier, has been identified as an important driver of AMR. However, knowledge is limited about the ways antibiotics are used in communities in Malawi and sub-Saharan Africa. Between April and July 2021, we undertook a cross-sectional survey of community antibiotic use practic…

  • Impact of active case-finding for tuberculosis on case-notifications in Blantyre, Malawi

    Open AccessHelena R A Feasey, McEwen Khundi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Active case-finding (ACF) for tuberculosis can help find the “missing millions” with undiagnosed tuberculosis. In a cluster-randomised trial, we investigated impact of ACF on case-notifications in Blantyre, Malawi, where ACF has been intensively implemented following 2014 estimates of ~1,000 per 100,000 adults with undiagnosed TB. Following a pre-intervention prevalence survey (May 2019 to March 2020), constrained randomisation allocated neighbou…

  • Interventions to reduce deaths in people living with HIV admitted to hospital in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessRachael M Burke, Hussein H Twabi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    People living with HIV (PLHIV) admitted to hospital have a high risk of death. We systematically appraised evidence for interventions to reduce mortality among hospitalised PLHIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Using a broad search strategy with terms for HIV, hospitals, and clinical trials, we searched for reports published between 1 Jan 2003 and 23 August 2021. Studies of interventions among adult HIV positive inpatients in LMICs w…

  • Prevalence of bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in urban Blantyre, Malawi 2019–20

    Open AccessHelena R A Feasey, McEwen Khundi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Recent evidence shows rapidly changing tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology in Southern and Eastern Africa, with need for subdistrict prevalence estimates to guide targeted interventions. We conducted a pulmonary TB prevalence survey to estimate current TB burden in Blantyre city, Malawi. From May 2019 to March 2020, 115 households in middle/high-density residential Blantyre, were randomly-selected from each of 72 clusters. Consenting eligible particip…

  • Accuracy of computer-aided chest X-ray in community-based tuberculosis screening

    Open AccessBrenda Mungai, Jane Rahedi Ong’ang’o et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Community-based screening for tuberculosis (TB) could improve detection but is resource intensive. We set out to evaluate the accuracy of computer-aided TB screening using digital chest X-ray (CXR) to determine if this approach met target product profiles (TPP) for community-based screening. CXR images from participants in the 2016 Kenya National TB Prevalence Survey were evaluated using CAD4TBv6 (Delft Imaging), giving a probabilistic score for …

  • Know your tuberculosis epidemic–Is it time to add Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunoreactivity back into global surveillance

    Open AccessHannah M Rickman, Wala Kamchedzera et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Tuberculosis (TB) still causes 1.5 million deaths globally each year. Over recent decades, slow and uneven declines in TB incidence have resulted in a falling prevalence of TB disease, which increasingly concentrates in vulnerable populations. Falling prevalence, while welcome, poses new challenges for TB surveillance. Cross-sectional disease surveys require very large sample sizes to accurately estimate disease burden, and even more participants…

  • Do community-based active case-finding interventions have indirect impacts on wider TB case detection and determinants of subsequent TB testing behaviour? A systematic review

    Open AccessHelena R A Feasey, Rachael M Burke et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2021

    Community-based active case-finding (ACF) may have important impacts on routine TB case-detection and subsequent patient-initiated diagnosis pathways, contributing “indirectly” to infectious diseases prevention and care. We investigated the impact of ACF beyond directly diagnosed patients for TB, using routine case-notification rate (CNR) ratios as a measure of indirect effect. We systematically searched for publications 01-Jan-1980 to 13-Apr-202…

  • Use and awareness of and willingness to self-test for HIV

    Open AccessCheryl Johnson, Melissa Neuman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    In 2015-16, many Malawian and Zimbabwean men had never tested for HIV. Despite low awareness and minimal HIVST experience, willingness to self-test was high among Zimbabwean men, especially older men with moderate-to-high HIV-related sexual risk. These data provide a valuable baseline against which to investigate population-level uptake of HIVST as programmes scale up. Programmes introducing, or planning to introduce, HIVST should consider includ…

  • Quantifying the need for enhanced case management for TB patients as part of TB cohort audit in the North West of England

    Open AccessAngela Tucker, Jeniffer Mithoo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Use of TBCA to quantify different levels of need for ECM is feasible and has demonstrated that social and clinical complexity is common in the region. Results will inform regional workforce planning and assist development of innovative methods to improve treatment outcomes in these vulnerable groups

  • Uptake, Accuracy, Safety, and Linkage into Care over Two Years of Promoting Annual Self-Testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi

    Open AccessAugustine Choko, Augustine T Choko et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2015

    BACKGROUND: Home-based HIV testing and counselling (HTC) achieves high uptake, but is difficult and expensive to implement and sustain. We investigated a novel alternative based on HIV self-testing (HIVST). The aim was to evaluate the uptake of testing, accuracy, linkage into care, and health outcomes when highly convenient and flexible but supported access to HIVST kits was provided to a well-defined and closely monitored population. METHODS AND…

  • Evidence of improving antiretroviral therapy treatment delays

    Open AccessDerek J Sloan, Joep J van Oosterhout et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Continued improvements in treatment delays provide evidence that universal access to ART can be achieved using the public health approach adopted by Malawi However, the longer delays for women and patients diagnosed at outlying sites emphasises the need for targeted interventions to support equitable access for these groups

  • Feasibility and acceptability of point of care HIV testing in community outreach and GUM drop-in services in the North West of England

    Open AccessPeter MacPherson, Anu Chawla et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Community and GUM clinic-based POCT for HIV was feasible and acceptable to clients and service providers in a low prevalence setting. It successfully reached target groups, many of whom would not have otherwise tested. We recommend POCT be considered among strategies to increase the uptake of HIV testing among groups who are currently underserved

  • Is This Where We Want to Go

    Peter MacPhersonARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1997

    Las Vegas is a microcosm for what a community loses when, the market controls health care. As curious as it sounds, a lot of communities in America wish they looked like Las Vegas. As garish a place as it has become, Las Vegas is doing what people expect from America. A city in the desert that didn't exist at the turn of the century, Las Vegas is alive with opportunity. It has 90,000 hotel rooms and more are being built every day. More than 50 pe…

  • Astronomy of the Australian Aborigines

    Open AccessPeter MacPhersonARTICLEJournal and proceedings of the…1881Cited by: 9