Sam Newton BSc MSc MBChB PhD
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Dr Sam Newton is a Clinical Research Fellow currently working at the Kintampo Health Research Centre on a WHO sponsored newborn vitamin A supplementation study with other sites in India and Tanzania.
He completed his medical education with a BSc in Human Biology and MBChB in Medicine and Surgery in 1993 in Ghana. He joined the Kintampo Health Research Centre in June 1996 as a clinician. In 2000 he was awarded a fellowship by the Nestle Foundation to undertake an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and completed in 2001.
In 2004 he was admitted to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to do a PhD in Epidemiology, as the School’s first distance learning PhD student in Epidemiology completing in 2007.
Affiliation
Teaching
He is involved with the distance learning teaching programme in Epidemiology and specifically in EP101 Fundamentals in EPI and EP201 Study design.
Research
He has carried out numerous field trials in malaria, iron and vitamin A as well as vaccine trials mainly in the area of polio, tetanus, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b. Dr Sam Newton has published extensively in international peer review journals mainly in the area of micronutrients, vaccines and research ethics.
Research areas
- Child health
- Micronutrients
- Vaccines
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- Medicine
- Nutrition
Other interests
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Selected publications
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Seroprotection associated with infant vitamin A supplementation given with vaccines is not related to antibody affinity to Hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines.
Newton, S.; Filteau, S.; Owusu-Agyei, S.; Ampofo, W.; Kirkwood, B.R.;
Vaccine, 2010;
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Drawing blood from young children: lessons learned from a trial in Ghana
Newton, S.; Doku, V.; Geissler, W.; Asante, K.P.; Cousens, S.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2009; 103(5):497-499
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Vitamin A supplements are well tolerated with the pentavalent vaccine.
Newton, S.; Owusu-Agyei, S.; Filteau, S.; Gyan, T.; Kirkwood, B.R.;
Vaccine, 2008; 26(51):6608-13
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Vitamin A supplementation enhances infants' immune responses to hepatitis B vaccine but does not affect responses to Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine.
Newton, S.; Owusu-Agyei, S.; Ampofo, W.; Zandoh, C.; Adjuik, M.; Adjei, G.; Tchum, S.; Filteau, S.; Kirkwood, B.R.;
J Nutr, 2007; 137(5):1272-7
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Is there any monitoring of the quality of vitamin A capsules used in supplementation programs?
Newton, S.; Owusu-Agyei, S.; Kirkwood, B.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007; 86(4):1254-1254
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Demonstrating zinc and iron bioavailability from intrinsically labeled microencapsulated ferrous fumarate and zinc gluconate Sprinkles in young children.
Zlotkin, S.H.; Schauer, C.; Owusu Agyei, S.; Wolfson, J.; Tondeur, M.C.; Asante, K.P.; Newton, S.; Serfass, R.E.; Sharieff, W.;
J Nutr, 2006; 136(4):920-5
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Evaluation of vitamin A supplementation regimens in Ghanaian postpartum mothers with the use of the modified-relative-dose-response test.
Tchum, S.K.; Tanumihardjo, S.A.; Newton, S.; de Benoist, B.; Owusu-Agyei, S.; Arthur, F.K.; Tetteh, A.;
Am J Clin Nutr, 2006; 84(6):1344-9
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Vitamin a supplementation does not affect infants' immune responses to polio and tetanus vaccines.
Newton, S.; Cousens, S.; Owusu-Agyei, S.; Filteau, S.; Stanley, C.; Linsell, L.; Kirkwood, B.;
J Nutr, 2005; 135(11):2669-73
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