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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

Prevalence and risk factors of curable sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections and malaria co-infection among pregnant women at antenatal care booking in Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania: a cross-sectional study of randomised controlled trial data
GORE-LANGTON, GR; Madanitsa, M; Barsosio, HC; Minja, DT R; Mosha, J; Kavishe, RA; Mtove, G; Gesase, S; Msemo, OA; Kariuki, S; Otieno, K; Phiri, KS; Lusingu, JP A; Mukerebe, C; Manjurano, A; Ikigo, P; Saidi, Q; Onyango, ED; Schmiegelow, C; Dodd, J; Hill, J; Hansson, H; Alifrangis, M; Gutman, J; Hunter, PJ; ... CHICO, RM.
2024
BMJ Public Health
Effectiveness of malaria chemoprevention in the first two years of life in Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire compared to standard of care: study protocol for a population-based prospective cohort impact evaluation study.
Stresman, G; LAL, S; BRUCE, J; Nji, A; Serge-Brice, A; MOSOFF, J; McGirr, A; GORE-LANGTON, G; McGuire, M; Sinsai, J; Lele, A; Tah-Monunde, M; Kouadio, Z-B; Anatole, M; Konate-Toure, A; CLARKE, SE; GOSLING, R; Mbacham, WF; Yavo, W; CHICO, RM;
2024
BMC Public Health
The prioritisation of curable sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women in Zambia and Papua New Guinea: Qualitative insights.
Vallely, LM; Kapungu, K; Mengi, A; CHAPONDA, M; CHICO, RM; Riddell, MA; Vallely, AJ; Pomat, W; Cignacco, E; Low, N; Kelly-Hanku, A;
2024
PLOS global public health
Measuring protective efficacy and quantifying the impact of drug resistance: A novel malaria chemoprevention trial design and methodology.
MOUSA, A; Cuomo-Dannenburg, G; Thompson, HA; CHICO, RM; BESHIR, KB; Sutherland, CJ; SCHELLENBERG, D; GOSLING, R; Alifrangis, M; Hocke, EF; Hansson, H; Chopo-Pizarro, A; Mbacham, WF; Ali, IM; CHAPONDA, M; ROPER, C; Okell, LC;
2024
PLoS medicine
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
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
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