Lena Acolatse is a nutritionist involved in early childhood development programs, with a keen interest in behavioural assessments and how their use can be improved in developing countries. She is interested in the different pathways – agriculture-nutrition linkages, parenting and care influences etc – by which children can develop successfully, and how the different actors […]
Dr Julia Mwesigwa is a clinically-qualified malaria epidemiologist from Uganda. She joined the MRCG at LSHTM in 2012 to implement a five-year cohort study aimed at understanding the transmission dynamics of malaria at village level in the five administrative regions of The Gambia. Working under the supervision of Prof Umberto D’Alessandro, she has led several […]
Isatou Jagne joined the Unit in 2007 as a laboratory technician, rising through the post of a trainee Scientific Officer, to her current position as a Higher Scientific Officer on the PregnAnZI-2 trial, coordinating all laboratory activities and leading a team of three scientific officers. She has been involved in several studies at the Unit, […]
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 […]