Feiko ter Kuile

Feiko ter Kuile is Professor of Tropical Epidemiology within the Department of Clinic Sciences at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) where he heads the malaria epidemiology unit since 2003. He is trained in medicine at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam. He previously worked at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit on the Thai-Burmese border (1988-1994) as part of collaboration between the University of Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, and the Thai Mahidol University, followed by an 8-year period (1995-2003) with the Malaria Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Kisumu, Western Kenya (1995-2001) and as senior medical epidemiologist in Atlanta, GA, USA (2001-2003). His main research interest is the epidemiology of malaria and the evaluation of new interventions for the control of malaria in children and pregnant women. He was the head of the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium, from 2007-2017, a network of 40 research institutions worldwide conducting research on the treatment and prevention of malaria in pregnancy. As part of his current work at LSTM he is based part-time in Kenya as part of a collaboration between LSTM, CDC and the Kenyan Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kisumu, western Kenya.