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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
The 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

Pf7: an open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 20,000 worldwide samples
MalariaGEN; Abdel Hamid MM; Abdelraheem MH; Acheampong DO; Ahouidi A; Ali M; Almagro-Garcia J; Amambua-Ngwa A; Amaratunga C; Amenga-Etego L
2023
Wellcome open research
Detecting temporal and spatial malaria patterns from first antenatal care visits.
Pujol A; Brokhattingen N; Matambisso G; Mbeve H; Cisteró P; Escoda A; Maculuve S; Cuna B; Melembe C; Ndimande N
2023
Res Sq
Antibodies to repeat-containing antigens in Plasmodium falciparum are exposure-dependent and short-lived in children in natural malaria infections.
Raghavan M; Kalantar KL; Duarte E; Teyssier N; Takahashi S; Kung AF; Rajan JV; Rek J; Tetteh KKA; Drakeley C
2023
eLife
Naturally acquired antibodies to gametocyte antigens are associated with reduced transmission of Plasmodium vivax gametocytes to Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes.
Tebeje SK; Chali W; Hailemeskel E; Ramjith J; Gashaw A; Ashine T; Nebret D; Esayas E; Emiru T; Tsegaye T
2023
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
Gravidity and malaria trends interact to modify P. falciparum densities and detectability in pregnancy: a 3-year prospective multi-site observational study.
Matambisso G; Brokhattingen N; Maculuve S; Cisteró P; Mbeve H; Escoda A; Miguel J; Buetas E; de Jong I; Cuna B
2022
BMC medicine
Persistence of Plasmodium falciparum HRP-2 antigenaemia after artemisinin combination therapy is not associated with gametocytes
Oulton T; Mahamar A; Sanogo K; Diallo M; Youssouf A; Niambele SM; Samaké S; Keita S; Sinaba Y; Sacko A
2022
Malaria Journal
Entomological impact of mass administration of ivermectin and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in The Gambia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Soumare HM; Dabira ED; Camara MM; Jadama L; Gaye PM; Kanteh S; Jawara EA; Njie AK; Sanneh F; Ndiath MO
2022
Parasites & vectors
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