Since October 2012 Claudia Turner has been working in Cambodia at the Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit (COMRU). COMRU works in collaboration with the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) and is committed to conducting clinically important research on major paediatric issues.
Claudia heads the clinical research program and supervises six Cambodian junior researchers. The three main themes of clinical research at COMRU are neonatal health care, childhood pneumonia and technology enhancement.
Claudia works in close collaboration with the neonatal department at AHC. In addition to conducting research Claudia’s work includes clinical teaching and infrastructure development. Research projects to date include a study on neonatal colonisation with multidrug resistant Gram negative organisms, development of a clinical neonatal mortality score and a qualitative study examining the beliefs and interpretations of illness and death in neonates that are held by a cross section of the community in rural Cambodia. The neonatal research program has recently started work in the community with a survey of all 306 villages in one health district to provide an estimate of neonatal and infant mortality.
Currently Claudia is a member of the World Health Organisation investigator group for pneumonia diagnosis and the RSV Global Estimation Network working group.