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Professor Chris Drakeley

PhD

Professor
of Infection & Immunity

Room
238b

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
020 7927 2289

Chris Drakeley is a Professor of Infection & Immunity at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has more than 30 years experience of working on malaria with much of his time spent working overseas in a variety of African countries including Tanzania & The Gambia. His research centres on developing a better understanding of malaria transmission of parasites in different settings. This includes studies aimed at understanding the fundamentals of malaria transmission dynamics including risks factors for transmission in endemic populations and defining the infectious reservoir of malaria. His group is involved in the comparison and optimisation of approaches to measure transmission with a focus on serological markers for exposure to infection. These components are linked together by the evaluation of strategies designed to reduce and block transmission including transmission blocking vaccines and drugs.

Affiliations

Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Department of Infection Biology

Centres

Malaria Centre
Vaccine Centre

Research

Research Area
Diagnostics
Infectious disease policy
Surveillance
Disease control
Protozoa
Spatial analysis
Discipline
Immunoepidemiology
Epidemiology
Immunology
Parasitology
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
Emerging Infectious Disease
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Zoonotic disease
Country
Burkina Faso
Botswana
Cape Verde
Dominican Republic
Ethiopia
United Kingdom
Ghana
Gambia
Equatorial Guinea
Haiti
Cambodia
Myanmar (Burma)
Mozambique
Philippines
Sierra Leone
Uganda
United States of America
South Africa
Region
Caribbean small states
East Asia & Pacific (developing only)
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
Middle East & North Africa (developing only)
Pacific island small states
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Serological evaluation of risk factors for exposure to malaria in a pre-elimination setting in Malaysian Borneo.
Byrne I; William T; Chua TH; Patterson C; Hall T; Tan M; Chitnis C; Adams J; Singh SK; Grignard L
2023
Scientific reports
Zoonotic malaria requires new policy approaches to malaria elimination.
Fornace KM; Drakeley CJ; Lindblade KA; Jelip J; Ahmed K
2023
Nature communications
Assessing the impact of the \"malaria supporters project\" intervention to malaria control in the Brazilian Amazon: an interrupted time-series analysis.
Garcia KKS; Soremekun S; Bottomley C; Abrahão AA; de Miranda CB; Drakeley C; Ramalho WM; Siqueira AM
2023
Malaria Journal
The Effect of Previous Exposure to Malaria Infection and Clinical Malaria Episodes on the Immune Response to the Two-Dose Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo Ebola Vaccine Regimen.
Manno D; Patterson C; Drammeh A; Tetteh K; Kroma MT; Otieno GT; Lawal BJ; Soremekun S; Ayieko P; Gaddah A
2023
Vaccines
High throughput human genotyping for variants associated with malarial disease outcomes using custom targeted amplicon sequencing.
Osborne A; Phelan JE; Vanheer LN; Manjurano A; Gitaka J; Drakeley CJ; Kaneko A; Kita K; Campino S; Clark TG
2023
Scientific reports
Household-level effects of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Gambia
Soremekun S; Conteh B; Nyassi A; Soumare H; Etoketim B; Ndiath M; Bradley J; D'Alessandro U; Bousema T; Erhart A
2023
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