Lois grew up in rural Victoria and began her working life as a nurse. Later she completed a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University, Townsville. Since then Lois has worked in the areas of tuberculosis and infection control in resource poor settings, and has been involved in building research capacity for rural health workers in North India. She has also developed a special interest in the area of snakebite and snakebite prevention.
Snakebite envenoming is now on World Health Organisations’s Neglected Tropical Diseases list;
Academic Publications
Armstrong LJ , Cynthia S, George M, Zachariah A. Comparing community and hospital data of snakebite in North Bihar: a community incidence survey and a parallel hospital-based clinical study. Tropical Doctor. 2019 Jul 27:49475519865036. doi: 10.1177/0049475519865036.
Armstrong LJ. Health, rights and culture: Some reflections on the meanings of the word “rights” from a cross-cultural health worker. Christian Journal for Global Health. May 2019; 6(1):64-69. https://doi.org/10.15566/cjgh.v6i1.269
Sinha RS, Cynthia DS, Kumar PV, Armstrong LJ, Bose A, George K. Admissions to a Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) in North Bihar – Reasons and outcomes. IJPH 2019 63(2):128-132.
Longkumer T, Armstrong LJ, Finny P. Outcomes determinants of snakebites in North Bihar, India: a prospective hospital-based study. J Venom Res. June 28 2017. 8:14-18.
Armstrong L, and Finny P. Building research capacity in resource poor settings – triumphs and challenges. National Medical Journal of India Sept/Oct 2016 (5): 295-6.
HaanshuusCG, Chandy S, Manoharan A, Vivek R, Mathai D, Xena D, SinghA, Langeland N, Blomberg B, Vasanthan G, SitaramU, Appasamy J, Nesaraj J, Henry A, Patil S, Alvarez-Uria G, Armstrong L, Mørch K. A High Malaria Prevalence Identified by PCR among Patients with Acute Undifferentiated Fever in India. PLoS One July 7, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158816
Longkumer T, Armstrong L, Santra V and Finny P. Human, snake, and environmental factors in human – snake conflict in North Bihar – a one-year descriptive study. Christian Journal for Global Health, 2016, 3(1): 36-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.15566/cjgh.v3i1.77
Nair S, Armstrong LJ, Finny P. Family Conflict – The major underlying influence in suicide attempts in Northern Bihar, India. Christian Journal for Global Health. 2015, 2(1):23-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15566/cjgh.v2i1.52
Masih S, Stephen SC, Armstrong LJ, Finny P.Use and Misuse of Glucocorticoids in the community of Raxaul Block, North Bihar. Tropical Doctor 2015, Vol. 45(2) 68–72 DOI: 10.1177/0049475514567756
Kumar V, Armstrong L, Seshadri MS and Finny P. Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis in rural northern India – most have secondary causes. Tropical Doctor 2014, Vol 44(1) 33–35. DOI: 10.1177/0049475513512643
Nalli C, Armstrong L, Finny L, Thomas N. Glucocorticoid misuse in a rural and semi urban community in Northern Bihar – A pilot study. Tropical Doctor 2012; 42:168-170. DOI:10.1258/td 2012.120139.
Christopher
DJ, James P, Daley P, Armstrong L, Isaac BTJ, Thangakunam B, Premkumar B,
Zwerling A, Pai M. Annual high risk of tuberculosis infection among nursing
students in South India: A cohort study.
PLoS ONE 2011 6(10):e26199
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026199
Christopher DJ, Daley P, Armstrong L, James P, Gupta R, Premkumar B, Michael JS, Vedha R, Zwerling A, Schiller I, Dendakuri N, Pai M. Tuberculosis infection among Young Nursing Trainees in South India. PLoS One 2010 5(4): e10408 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010408
Grandin W, Dev AV, Latha A, Armstrong L, Mathai D, John KR, Daley P. Detection of Human Immunodeficiency virus infection in the sputum of tuberculosis patients in South India. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2010 Oct 14(10): 1288-94.