Dr Olubukola T. Idoko is paediatrician, and works as a clinical scientist at the Unit. She has over 15 years of experience in clinical paediatrics, with a focus on infectious diseases and new-born care. She is a PhD candidate at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich Germany. In addition to her role at the Unit, […]
Penda is a social scientist within the discipline of medical anthropology at the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM. Her presentation will focus on the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus globally, sharing information on preventative methods. She attained an MSc in Medicine, Science and Society from the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy […]
Dr. Uduak Okomo will discuss how newborns get infection, the types of serious infections in newborns, and what we do when infection is suspected; and finally, how we can prevent newborns from getting infection. Her work focuses on better measurement of and reduction in the burden of maternal and newborn mortality in developing countries. Serious […]
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a major human pathogen with several virulence factors. An 11-Year period Retrospective Pilot Study led by Saffiatou Darboe showed that PVL-SA strains accounted for 61.4% (180/293) of S. aureus isolates. PVL prevalence was high in both Gambian bacteraemia and SSTIs S. aureus strains. Antimicrobial resistance was low and included chloramphenicol […]
Dr. Aida Badiane is one of the four new recipients of the Crick African Network’s African Accelerator Award Fellowships. The African Accelerator Awards are designed to help facilitate the transition from mid-career postdoctoral research scientists to research group leaders on the African continent. Spending at least six months at the Crick, the fellows will also […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, in partnership with the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford hosted the Vaccinology in Africa course from 29th April to 3rd May 2019, at the Ocean Bay Hotel and Resort. The host academic leaders for the course were Prof. Beate Kampmann, Theme Leader for Vaccines & Immunity […]
A group of biostatisticians and genomics researchers have completed a one-day workshop on ‘Introduction to parallel programming in R on the High Performance Computing platform (Mendy) at the Fajara campus of the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM. The workshop, organised by the IT and Statistics departments, was presented by Dr. David Jeffries, Lead Statistician […]
The Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council, Professor Fiona Watt visited the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM from the 23rd to 25th April 2019. Professor Watt is also the Director of the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King’s College London. During her visit, which also marked her first time in […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has concluded a series of Open Days on the PREgnancy Care Integrating Transitional Science, Everywhere (PRECISE) Study. The sessions, which sought to raise community awareness about the study, were held in Farefenni, Ngayen Sanjal, and Illiassa from 1st to […]
Dr Leopold Tientcheu Djomkam has won one of the 30 inaugural Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellowship Awards for early career African scientists. FLAIR is a programme of The African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) and the Royal Society, with support from the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). It is designed to […]
Global health research has previously been limited to the use of behavioural assessments to measure the effect of exposure to early socio-economic and health challenges. A team of developmental psychologists from Birkbeck is currently carrying out a project in The Gambia, which uses portable, low-invasive, low-cost brain imaging techniques to improve understanding of the impact […]
Findings could re-orientate global programmes to prevent iron deficiency anemia According to new research published in Science Advances, researchers in The Gambia have uncovered a hitherto unknown relationship between respiratory infections and iron deficiency in children living in poor environments. According to the latest global burden of disease estimates, iron deficiency (ID) and its consequent […]