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The 25 of April is World Malaria Day - a good time to take stock of progress towards dealing with one of the great historical global scourges. Science blog by Kevin Marsh for the University of Oxford.
Charles Sande: Paediatric infection and immunity
Charles Sande investigates why some children in sub‑Saharan Africa survive infections while others do not. Using proteomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics and clinical data, his work identified immune differences linked to mortality. A recent multi-country study highlighted IL10 as a key marker of high-risk children, supporting more targeted care and personalised interventions.
Dorcas Kamuya: Voices of health research ethics in Kenya
Dorcas Kamuya leads research on the ethics of emerging technologies, collaborative science, and pandemic response. Her work explores ethical frameworks for biobanking and cell line generation in Africa, addressing social acceptability, cultural norms, and equity. She advocates for proactive, context-specific ethics to ensure research is inclusive, trustworthy, and impactful in African settings.
Noni Mumba: Cultivating trust between science and communities
Noni Mumba leads engagement efforts that connect communities, stakeholders, policymakers and media with research. Her work ensures public involvement in science, including youth and journalists, to build trust and understanding. Through projects like NEWRISK, she explores how community priorities can shape climate-resilient health systems and strengthen the uptake of scientific findings.
Dorothy Oluoch: Continuity of care for preterms
Dorothy Oluoch is a medical anthropologist researching maternal and newborn health. Her RESPECT study explored women’s experiences in hospital care for small and sick newborns, identifying gaps to improve quality of care. Her work amplifies mothers’ voices and informs policies to reduce neonatal mortality and promote respectful, patient-centred health systems.
Wirichada Pan ngum: Modeling for maximum impact on health research
Wirichada Pan ngum leads a modelling group using statistical and mathematical approaches to address regional health challenges. Her work on hepatitis C informed Thailand’s treatment and screening policies. Current priorities include integrating AI into modelling and addressing climate change and mental health. Her team also focuses on local capacity building for sustainable impact.
Leigh Jones: Developing future leaders across South-East Asia
Leigh Jones focuses on building research leadership in South and Southeast Asia. Through initiatives like the MODRA programme, she supports early to mid-career researchers with training, mentorship, and seed funding. Her work addresses regional challenges in research infrastructure and competitiveness, aiming to strengthen local leadership and improve long-term health outcomes.
Evelyne Kestelyn: Sustainable clinical trial models in LMICs
Evelyne leads clinical trial operations in regions with high infectious disease burdens, focusing on ethical, efficient, and locally driven research. Her work, including the Africa Asia Alliance for Clinical Trials (A3CT), aims to strengthen south-south collaborations, accelerate trial delivery, and expand access to new treatments for underrepresented populations through innovation and capacity building.
Maneerat Ekkapongpisit: Translating research into real-world impact
Maneerat Ekkapongpisit focuses on translational and implementation research, helping diagnostic innovations move from lab to real-world healthcare settings. Her work supports clinical validation, regulatory approval, and health policy integration in Thailand. She investigates how research systems can better enable impactful, patient-centred innovations and advocates for adaptive funding and research management frameworks.
Beryl Maritim: How we pay for healthcare
Beryl researches healthcare financing in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on protecting households from financial hardship due to medical costs. Her work examines equity in public health insurance programmes, and informs policy reforms to better target support. She addresses key challenges in achieving fair, sustainable universal health coverage in Kenya.
Emelda Okiro: Transforming birth and death registration
Emelda Okiro researches how to strengthen birth and death registration systems in Kenya by identifying barriers in both the health system and communities. Her work uses surveillance data, interviews and focus groups to co-design context-specific interventions, aiming to improve real-time data, accountability, and ultimately equitable access to services and policy planning.
Michuki Maina: Reducing infections in Kenyan neonatal units
Michuki Maina focuses on preventing hospital-acquired infections in neonatal and paediatric units in Kenya. His recent work tested the use of nurse assistants to support infection control tasks. By improving hygiene and reducing healthcare-associated infections, this research aims to protect vulnerable infants and combat antimicrobial resistance in resource-limited hospital settings.
Anthony Etyang: Unmasking hypertension - the silent killer
Anthony studies hypertension in Kenya and The Gambia, focusing on improving diagnosis, treatment, and blood pressure control. His research addresses low awareness and treatment gaps, aiming to prevent severe outcomes like stroke and heart failure. With over 25% of adults affected, his work targets a major cause of premature death in Africa.
Ni Ni Tun: HIV among key populations in Myanmar
Ni Ni Tun focuses on HIV prevention and treatment among vulnerable populations in Myanmar, including sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender women, and people who inject drugs. Her research addresses barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis access, links between drug use and mental health, and strategies to reduce high-risk behaviours, especially during conflict-related crises, to improve healthcare inclusion.
Kevin Marsh: Africa in partnership with Oxford
Kevin leads the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), promoting equitable research, education, and innovation partnerships between African researchers and the University of Oxford. His work focuses on strengthening collaborations, expanding graduate opportunities, and supporting Africa’s knowledge-driven future. Key challenges include defining equity in partnerships and adapting to shifting global research funding landscapes.
Moses Chapa Kiti: Securing our health amidst climate change
Moses Chapa Kiti explores how climate change impacts population health and health systems in Kenya. The multidisciplinary project examines policy gaps, facility readiness, vulnerability of populations, community perspectives, and economic costs, aiming to inform pragmatic, community-informed interventions that build resilient health systems in the face of climate adverse weather events.
Charles Agoti: Bug reinfection: why, when, how
Charles Agoti studies patterns of infections and reinfections in communities. Through weekly surveillance of 500 individuals, his research examines why repeat infections occur and how they influence virus transmission. These insights inform population-level interventions, vaccine strategies, and prevention policies for respiratory pathogens.
Marie Onyamboko: Advancing malaria research in DRC
Marie focuses on malaria in pregnant women and children. Her work includes the MIRANDA study, which demonstrates that using pregnant women for genomic surveillance effectively tracks drug-resistant malaria. Her research supports targeted treatment, improved diagnostics, and national strategies to combat antimalarial resistance in the DRC.
Germana Bancone: Red blood cells disorders in low-resource settings
Germana investigates red blood cell disorders and anaemia in low-resource settings, focusing on diagnostics, causes and treatment strategies. Projects include evaluating portable G6PD tests and studying iron supplementation’s impact on vaccine response in pregnant women. The goal is to improve targeted treatments and diagnostics for anaemia in vulnerable populations.
James Watson: Data driven definitions of severe malaria
James Watson studies severe malaria in African children, focusing on improving diagnostic accuracy. By analysing clinical data, he aims to distinguish malaria-related severe illness from other infections and estimate true mortality more reliably. His work supports faster diagnosis and treatment, ultimately reducing preventable child deaths in low-resource settings.
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