|
|
 |
New Director for Africa Centre
UKZNdaba. August 2006. Republished with kind permission of UKZNdaba.
|
Newly appointed Director of the Africa Centre for Health and Populations Studies Professor Marie-Louise Newell is an international expert with a wealth of experience on methodological issues in epidemiological research, the epidemiology of paediatric HIV infections, mother-to-child transmission and interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission.
An expert in demographic and epidemiological research, Professor Newell is a collaborator in the role of exclusive breastfeeding and postnatal transmission of HIV studies at the Africa Centre. As co-ordinator of the European arm of the PACTG 316 trial she evaluated the addition of Nevirapine in reducing the risk of vertical trans-mission of HIV-1. In addition Professor Newell provides both formal and informal support to the MRC units in Uganda and Gambia.
She is the founding member and co-chair of the Ghent initiative which addresses research on issues relating to mother-to-child trans-mission of HIV, particularly in developing countries.
She serves as an expert on numerous international Advisory Groups that include WHO, CDC, UNICEF and the UK Department for International Development regarding prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection.
She obtained her medical degree in the country of birth ?– the Nether-lands, her MSc Medical Demography at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Medical Demography at the University of London. |
| Was this article helpful to you? |
 ?0%???? ?0%
|
|
Back
|
|
|
|
