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Brenda Anna Kwambana-Adams is a Wellcome International Intermediate Fellow and Senior Lecturer (Academic Career Track) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme (Kamuzu University of Health Sciences). Brenda is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow within the Division of Infection and Immunity at University College London. Brenda’s research interests are to characterise the mechanisms that modulate transmission of respiratory pathogens using cutting-edge “omics”, with the aim to guide the development of more effective control strategies. As part of her Wellcome Fellowship, Brenda is using an innovative vaccine-probe study to investigate the role of under-fives in within-household transmission of the pneumococcus to infants.
In the process of doing this, Brenda is also developing tools for early, rapid, and accurate diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) that could improve case ascertainment in resource limited settings. Brenda also works with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Regional Reference Laboratories supporting surveillance of acute bacterial meningitis across Africa. Brenda contributed to the development of the current WHO guidelines on controlling pneumococcal outbreaks in the African “meningitis belt” and the WHO Defeating Meningitis 2030 Global Roadmap. Brenda has won numerous awards including the first prestigious MRC-LSHTM West Africa Global Health Research Fellowship.
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Microbial genomicsno. 6 (2024)
Charlotte Davison, Sam Tallman, Megan de Ste-Croix,Martin Antonio,Marco R. Oggioni,Brenda Kwambana-Adams,Fabian Freund,Sandra Beleza
PLOS geneticsno. 6 (2024): e1011317-e1011317
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseaseno. 413 (2023): 413-413
PloS oneno. 8 (2023): e0289557-e0289557
The Lancet Child & adolescent healthno. 5 (2023): 299-301
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