Professor Kevin Marsh
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Kevin Marsh
Professor of Tropical Medicine
Kevin Marsh is a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford and senior advisor at the African Academy of Sciences. He qualified in medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1978 and began his research career at the MRC Unit in the Gambia working on the immunology of malaria. In 1989 he established with colleagues a series of research projects on malaria in Kilifi on the Kenyan coast. These have subsequently developed into an international programme working on all aspects of health in east Africa (the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme) involving around 800 staff working across a number of countries in east Africa of which he was director until August 2014.
Kevin Marsh has a particular interest in developing and strengthening research capacity and scientific leadership in Africa and has sponsored or supervised over 40 research fellows and doctoral students which have included four winners of the Royal Society Pfizer prize for research in Africa. He is currently supporting the development of a new platform for the acceleration of science in Africa through the African Academy of Sciences and at Oxford University he is the Director of Africa Oxford Initiative. He is fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Prince Mahidol prize for medicine in 2010 and the Al Sumait prize for development in Africa in 2016.
Key publications
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Osier FH. et al, (2014), Science Translational Medicine, 6, 247ra102 - 247ra102
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Ndungu FM. et al, (2012), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 8247 - 8252
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Scott JAG. et al, (2011), The Lancet, 378, 1316 - 1323
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Mackinnon MJ. and Marsh K., (2010), Science, 328, 866 - 871
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O'Meara WP. et al, (2008), The Lancet, 372, 1555 - 1562
Recent publications
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Erber AC. et al, (2020), PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 14
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Aniweh Y. et al, (2020), Frontiers in immunology, 11
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Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network None., (2019), Nature communications, 10
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(2019), Malaria Journal, 18
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Njuguna P. et al, (2019), BMC Medicine, 17