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Dr R Matthew Chico

Associate Professor

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Over 25 years of global health experience in Latin America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions. His core expertise is in the design and conduct of impact evaluations and clinical trials aimed at improving maternal, reproductive, newborn and child health. He focuses on expanding packages of care where doing so is supported by local epidemiology and operational capacity to address co-morbidities and reduce social inequities through the lifecycle. This often involves deploying malaria chemoprevention strategies as a starting point for the provision of more holistic care.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Malaria Centre
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health

Research

Research Area
Chemotherapy
Child health
Clinical trials
Drug resistance
Maternal health
Parasites
Perinatal health
Reproductive health
Sexual health
Epidemiology
Immunology
Medicine
Molecular epidemiology
Parasitology
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
Syphilis
Tropical diseases
Sexually transmitted infections

Selected Publications

The effect and control of malaria in pregnancy and lactating women in the Asia-Pacific region
Unger, HW; Acharya, S; Arnold, L; Wu, C; Van Eijk, AM; GORE-LANGTON, GR; Ter Kuile, FO; Lufele, E; CHICO, RM; Price, RN; Moore, BR; Thriemer, K; Rogerson, SJ;
2023
The Lancet Global health
Estimating the impact of Plasmodium falciparum dhfr and dhps mutations on protective efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine: evidence from therapeutic efficacy studies and implications for malaria chemoprevention
MOUSA, A; Cuomo-Dannenburg, G; Thompson, HA; Bell, DJ; D’Alessandro, U; Nahum, A; Barnes, KI; Raman, J; GOSLING, R; Alifrangis, M; Hocke, EF; Hansson, HS; BESHIR, K; CHICO, RM; SUTHERLAND, CJ; Chopo-Pizzaro, A; Okell, LC; ROPER, C;
2023
72st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
STI care and treatment in antenatal clinics in Zambia and Papua New Guinea: a qualitative case study
Vallely, LM; Kapunga, K; Banda, H; Mengi, A; CHAPONDA, M; CHICO, RM; Riddell, M; Cignacco, E; Pomat, W; Vallely, A; Low, N; Kelly-Hanku, A;
2023
Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference
Global prevalence of gonorrhoea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis in female sex workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis from 2000 to 2022
Evans, J; Davies, EP; Tsuboi, M; Rowley, J; Korenromp, EL; CLAYTON, T; CHICO, RM;
2023
23rd IUSTI World Congress
Fetal growth and birth weight are independently reduced by malaria infection and curable sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections in Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi: A pregnancy cohort study.
Mtove, G; CHICO, RM; Madanitsa, M; Barsosio, HC; Msemo, OA; Saidi, Q; GORE-LANGTON, GR; Minja, DT R; Mukerebe, C; Gesase, S; Mwapasa, V; Phiri, KS; Hansson, H; Dodd, J; Magnussen, P; Kavishe, RA; Mosha, F; Kariuki, S; Lusingu, JP A; Gutman, JR; Alifrangis, M; Ter Kuile, FO; Schmiegelow, C;
2023
International journal of infectious diseases
What more can be done? Prioritizing the most promising antenatal interventions to improve birth weight.
Koivu, AM; Haapaniemi, T; Askari, S; Bhandari, N; Black, RE; CHICO, RM; Dewey, KG; Duggan, CP; Klein, N; Kumar, S; LAWN, JE; Manji, K; Näsänen-Gilmore, PK; Salasibew, M; Semrau, KE A; Ashorn, U; Ashorn, P; LBW prevention prioritization working group,;
2023
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Prevalence of and risk factors for microscopic and submicroscopic malaria infections in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Van Eijk, AM; Stepniewska, K; Hill, J; Taylor, SM; Rogerson, SJ; Cottrell, G; Chico, RM; Gutman, JR; Tinto, H; Unger, HW; Yanow, SK; Meshnick, SR; Ter Kuile, FO; Mayor, A; Subpatent Malaria in Pregnancy Group,;
2023
The Lancet Global health
Improving birth weight measurement and recording practices in Kenya and Tanzania: a prospective intervention study with historical controls.
K'Oloo, A; Godfrey, E; Koivu, AM; Barsosio, HC; Manji, K; Ndesangia, V; Omiti, F; Khery, MB; Ondieki, ED; Kariuki, S; Ter Kuile, FO; CHICO, RM; Klein, N; Heimonen, O; Ashorn, P; Ashorn, U; Näsänen-Gilmore, P;
2023
Population health metrics
Biological and pathological mechanisms leading to the birth of a small vulnerable newborn.
Hunter, PJ; Awoyemi, T; Ayede, AI; CHICO, RM; David, AL; Dewey, KG; Duggan, CP; Gravett, M; Prendergast, AJ; Ramakrishnan, U; Ashorn, P; Klein, N; Lancet Small Vulnerable Newborn Steering Committee,;
2023
The Lancet
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