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Dr R Matthew Chico

Associate Professor

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

Over 30 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

Diagnostic accuracy of an antigen-based point-of-care test versus nucleic acid amplification testing for genital trichomoniasis among pregnant women attending antenatal care facilities 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; Schröder, D; Golparian, D; Ali, MM; Blondeel, K; Unemo, M; Toskin, I; CHICO, RM;
2025
BMC infectious diseases
Emergence and spread of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (BA.1) variant across Africa: an observational study.
Fischer, C; Maponga, TG; Yadouleton, A; Abílio, N; Aboce, E; Adewumi, P; Afonso, P; Akorli, J; Andriamandimby, SF; Anga, L; Ashong, Y; Beloufa, MA; Bensalem, A; Birtles, R; Boumba, AL M; Bwanga, F; Chaponda, M; Chibukira, P; CHICO, RM; Chileshe, J; Choga, W; Chongwe, G; Cissé, A; Cissé, F; D'Alessandro, U; ... Drexler, JF.
2025
The Lancet Global Health
High prevalence of sexually transmitted and other reproductive tract infections(STIs/ RTIs)among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Nchelenge, Zambia
Sorano, S; Chaponda, EB; Mirandola, M; Chikwanda, E; Mwewa, V; Chaponda, M; Ghilardi, L; HARDING-ESCH, EM; SMITH, C; Mitsuaki, M; CHANDRAMOHAN, D; Schröder, D; Golparian, D; Mahmoud Ali, M; Blondeel, K; Unemo, M; Toskin, I; CHICO, RM;
2024
Joint Congress on Global Health 2024
Effect of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy on vaginal microbiota, host immune response and pregnancy outcomes: a case-control study from the ASPIRE trial in Zambia
Beleil, T; Bagabas, M; Hunter, P; Ng, S; Hair, J; Correia, G; Lee, YS; Chaponda, EB; Chikwanda, E; Chaponda, M; Klein, N; Sykes, L; Bruce, J; Ghilardi, L; Mayaud, P; Chandramohan, D; Bennett, PR; CHICO, RM; MacIntyre, DA;
2024
73st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Parasite clearance and protection from plasmodium falciparum infection: clinical results from a two-arm, parallel, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of presumptive sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine versus artesunate monotherapy among asymptomatic children 3-5 years of age in Zambia
Beltrame, A; Martinez-Vega, R; Mousa, A; Gwasupika, J; Chaponda, EB; Mwanza, S; Daka, V; Chipunga, M; Chopo-Pizarro, A; Filtenborg Hocke, E; Hansson, H; Alifrangis, M; Besir, KB; Stresman, G; Sutherland, CJ; Chaponda, M; CHICO, RM;
2024
73st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
The utility of qPCR estimation of parasite density in evaluating the effect of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as perennial malaria chemoprevention
Chopo-Pizarro, A; Ali, I; Menan, H; Martínez-Vega, R; Mosoff, J; Gross, M; Lal, S; Stresman, G; Filtenborg Hocke, E; Hansson, H; Alifrangis, M; Mousa, A; Roper, C; Sutherland, CJ; Assi, SB; Konate, A; Gnagne, P; Yavo, W; Jude, B; Nji, A; Mbacham, WF; CHICO, RM; Beshir, KB;
2024
73st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Bacterial vaginosis is associated with increased risk of placental malaria
Dela Cruz, EJ; Roh, ME; Kakuru, A; Madanitsa, M; Mukerebe, C; Dodd, J; Lee, J; Ramirez, L; Bakar, O; Adrama, H; Kizza, J; Olwoch, P; CHICO, RM; Ter Kuile, FO; Turnbaugh, PJ; Kamya, MR; Dorsey, G; Rosenthal, PJ;
2024
73st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
The effect of additional doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine administered as perennial malaria chemoprevention on hemoglobin levels among children in a malaria endemic area of Cameroon
Gross, M; Mosoff, JM; Lele, A; Monunde, MT; Sinsai, J; McGirr, A; Nfor, C; Lal, S; Gosling, R; Mbacham, WF; Nji, AM; CHICO, RM; Stresman, G;
2024
73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The impact of three additional doses of PMC administered through EPI schedules on vitamin a supplement uptake in Cameroon
Gross, M; Mosoff, JM; Lele, A; Monunde, MT; Sinsai, J; McGirr, A; Nfor, C; Lal, S; Gosling, R; Mbacham, WF; Nji, AM; CHICO, RM; Stresman, G;
2024
73st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
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