Fellows in Public Health & Tropical Medicine

The Trust provides support for researchers in low- and middle-income countries in public health and tropical medicine, at all stages of their careers. Below are details of fellows awarded Training, Intermediate and Senior Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Fellows' names are listed alphabetically by surname.

Training Fellows in Public Health & Tropical Medicine

Dr Camila Luz Corvalan Aguilar
University of Chile, Chile
Developmental origins of fatness and physical maturation in seven-year old Chilean children

Dr Felix Kembe Assah
University of Yaounde I, Cameroon
Development of a pragmatic model for public health intervention to promote physical activity in Cameroon

Dr Jeremiah Chikovore
College of Medicine, University of Malawi
Kuteerera muviri? Engaging men in TB control interventions

Dr Salako L Djogbenou
Institut Regional de Sante Publique, Benin
Study of carbamate and organophosphate resistance in Anopheles gambiae, the main malaria vector in West Africa

Dr Diane Gray
University of Cape Town
Early life determinants of infant lung function and chronic respiratory illness in children

Dr Elizabeth Kimani-Murage
African Population and Health Research Centre, Kenya
Effectiveness of personalised home-based nutritional counselling on infant feeding practices in urban informal settlements, Nairobi, Kenya

Dr Suzaan Marais
University of Capetown, South Africa
Host and bacillary factors in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis meningitis

Dr Eunice Nduati
Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
B cell responses in infants at risk of maternal HIV transmission

Mr Kija Ng'habi
Ifakara Health and Research Development Centre, Tanzania
Evolutionary and ecological response of African malaria vectors to insecticide-treated nets: vector population replacement?

Dr Thuong Nguyen
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Vietnam
Influence of host genetics and Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain variation on macrophage function and TB clinical outcome

Dr Emelda Aluoch Okiro
Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
Measuring changes in paediatric malaria hospitalisation in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia 2000-2010

Dr Grant Theron
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Bacterial and host determinants of infectiousness in patients with drug-sensitive, multi- and extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis

Dr George M Warimwe
International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya
Development of effective rift valley fever vaccines for use in sheep and humans

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Intermediate Fellows in Public Health & Tropical Medicine

Dr Wendy Anne Burgers
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Immune activation in HIV infection: investigating mediators and mechanisms

Dr Narisara Chantratita
Mahidol University, Thailand
Associations between genetic polymorphisms, innate immune responses and outcomes from sepsis in Thai patients with melioidosis and S. aureus infection

Dr James Edinam Futse
University of Ghana
Anaplasmosis vaccine development for West Africa: genetic and immunologic analysis of endemic strains

Dr Malika Imwong
Mahidol University, Thailand
Molecular characterisation of drug resistance in the human malarias

Dr Ghattu Krishnaveni
Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore, India
Developmental programming of stress responses in Indian children and their association with cardiovascular risk and cognitive function

Dr Julie Makani
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
The role of anaemia and foetal haemoglobin in sickle cell disease: clinical epidemiology to establish the evidence base for interventional trials of blood transfusion and hydroxyurea

Professor Graeme Ayton Meintjes
University of Cape Town
Defining interventions to reduce mortality in severe HIV-associated tuberculosis

Dr Penelope L Moore
National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa
Autologous neutralizing antibody specificities in HIV-1 subtype C: characterising the targets and defining the mechanisms of escape

Professor Mark P Nicol
University of Cape Town, South Africa
The use of modern molecular tools to understand and intervene in the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in rural South Africa

Dr Christophe Antonio Nkondjio
OCEAC, Cameroon
Impact of urbanisation on malaria vectors population dynamic in two major cities of Cameroon

Dr Abdisalan Noor
Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
Mapping the risks of plasmodium falciparum infections in areas of low transmission intensity

Dr Vandana Thathy
Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
Non-var-encoded variant antigen families in plasmodium falciparum as targets for naturally acquired immunity to malaria

Dr Dorothy K Yeboah-Manu
University of Ghana
Understanding the genetic diversity between Mycobacterium africanum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Senior Fellows in Public Health & Tropical Medicine

Professor Hector Garcia
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Definition and characterisation of the contribution of neurocysticercosis to seizure burden in endemic areas

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