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Professor R. Matthew Chico

Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases

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

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An infectious disease epidemiologist with over 30 years of global health experience in Latin America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions with particular interest in reducing the burden of curable sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections to improve pregnancy outcomes, and malaria chemoprevention among pregnant women and children.

Affiliations
Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Malaria Centre
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health

Teaching

Lecture in the following modules:

1. Malaria: from Science to Policy and Practice (3195) 

2. Applying Public Health Principles in Developing Countries (3198)

3. Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections (3192)

 

Supervise Summer Research Projects from the following MSc Courses:

1. MSc Public Health for Global Practice
2. MSc Clinical Infectious Diseases
3. MSc Tropical Medicine and International Health
4. MSc Epidemiology
5. MSc Medical Microbiology

 

 

 

Research

Research interest is focused 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.

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
Gonorrhoea
Chlamydia
Trichomoniasis
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
East Asia & Pacific (developing only)

Selected Publications
Prevalence and correlates of active syphilis diagnosed using serological assays and the molecular research-use-only Aptima Treponema pallidum assay among pregnant women in Zambia, 2023.
Shipitsyna, E; Sorano, S; Schröder, D; Chaponda, EB; Golparian, D; Chikwanda, E; Mwewa, V; Mulenga, JM; Chaponda, M; SMITH, C; Matsui, M; Mirandola, M; Blondeel, K; Toskin, I; CHICO, RM; Unemo, M;
2026
Frontiers in public health
[TEST RECORD] Effect of single-course malaria chemoprevention on clearance of and protection from Plasmodium falciparum infection in the presence of resistance-associated genotypes in Zambia (dataset)
CHICO, M; SUTHERLAND, CJ; Chaponda, M; ROPER, C; GOSLING, R; Martinez-Vega, R; Mousa, A; Beshir, K; Chopo-Pizarro, A; Alifrangis, M; Hansson, H; Filtenborg Hocke, E; Wellmann Thomsen, L; Gwasupika, J; Ephraim Chikwanda, E; Chaponda, E; Mwanza, S;
2026
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Diagnostic accuracy of an enzyme-based point-of-care test versus Nugent score for bacterial vaginosis among pregnant women attending routine antenatal care in Zambia.
Sorano, S; Chaponda, EB; Mirandola, M; Chikwanda, E; Mwewa, V; Mulenga, JM; Chaponda, M; Ghilardi, L; HARDING-ESCH, EM; SMITH, C; Matsui, M; CHANDRAMOHAN, D; Ali, MM; Blondeel, K; Unemo, M; Toskin, I; CHICO, RM;
2026
BMC Infectious Diseases
Parasite clearance and protection from Plasmodium falciparum infection (PCPI): a two-arm, parallel, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomised trial of presumptive sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine versus artesunate monotherapy among asymptomatic children 3-5 years of age in Zambia.
Martinez-Vega, R; Chaponda, M; MOUSA, A; Gwasupika, J; Chaponda, EB; Daka, V; Mwanza, S; Chipunga, M; Beshir, KB; Chopo-Pizarro, A; KAUR, H; Okell, L; Hansson, H; Hocke, EF; Alifrangis, M; GOSLING, R; ROPER, C; SUTHERLAND, C; CHICO, RM;
2025
BMC infectious diseases
Prevalence of Large-for-Gestational Age and Macrosomia Among Livebirths in 23 Low- and Middle-Income Countries Between 2000 and 2021: An Individual Participant Data Analysis.
Kirakoya-Samadoulougou, F; Ukwishaka, J; Ngwasiri, C; Subedi, S; Hazel, EA; Erchick, DJ; Wu, LS F; Grandi, C; Lachat, C; Toe, LC; Roberfroid, D; Huybregts, L; Labrique, AB; Rashid, M; Shaikh, S; Haque, R; Baqui, AH; Saha, SK; Khanam, R; Rahman, S; Silveira, MM F; Buffarini, R; Shapiro, RL; Zash, R; Zhu, Z; ... Subnational Collaborative Group for Vulnerable New,
2025
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Barriers to uptake and implementation of malaria chemoprevention in school-aged children: a stakeholder engagement meeting report
Morlino, C; BYRNE, I; Achan, J; Baraka, V; Barry, A; Bousema, T; Camara, A; Chacky, F; CHICO, RM; CLARKE, SE; Collins, KA; Dagnon, SJ-F; Diallo, O; Doumbia, S; Gerardin, J; Hein, D; Lusasi, AS; Maiteki-Sebuguzi, C; Makenga, G; Mokuolu, OA; Mwenyango, I; Nabakooza, J; Ogbulafor, N; Penny, MA; Sadou, A; ... Cohee, LM.
2025
Frontiers in tropical diseases
The impact of sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine resistance on the effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy in Africa: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
Van Eijk, AM; Stepniewska, K; Khairallah, C; Rodriguez, E; Ahn, J; Gutman, JR; Ter Kuile, FO; Accrombessi, M; Agyeman, YN; Ahn, J; Aklillu, E; Arinaitwe, E; Arnaldo, P; Asamoah, GD; Ashorn, P; Berkley, JA; Briand, V; Chaponda, EB; CHICO, RM; Chinkhumba, J; Cohee, L; Coulibaly, SO; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Desai, M; Dicko, A; ... Zola-Matuvanga, T.
2025
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Repurposing antimalarials: pyrimethamine exhibits superior in vitro activity to metronidazole against Gardnerella while sparing Lactobacillus.
Rosca, AS; Chaponda, EB; Beckers, T; De Koning, HP; CHICO, RM; Cools, P;
2025
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Prevalence and epidemiology of Mycoplasma genitalium and the absence of macrolide resistance in M. genitalium among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Zambia.
Schröder, D; Sorano, S; Shipitsyna, E; Chaponda, EB; Golparian, D; Chikwanda, E; Mwewa, V; Mulenga, JM; Chaponda, M; SMITH, C; Mitsuaki, M; Mirandola, M; Blondeel, K; Toskin, I; CHICO, RM; Unemo, M;
2025
Frontiers in public health
Impact of dhps mutations on sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine protective efficacy and implications for malaria chemoprevention.
MOUSA, A; Cuomo-Dannenburg, G; Thompson, HA; Bell, DJ; D'ALESSANDRO, U; GOSLING, R; Nahum, A; Barnes, KI; Raman, J; Workmann, L; Foo, YS; Flegg, JA; Hocke, EF; Hansson, H; Chopo-Pizarro, A; Beshir, KB; Alifrangis, M; CHICO, RM; SUTHERLAND, CJ; Okell, LC; ROPER, C;
2025
Nature communications
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R. Matthew Chico

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

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ORCID
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Pp1YFiEAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate
https://publons.com/a/1500024/