Kevin Baird.

Professor J. Kevin Baird

Director of OUCRU Indonesia

Professor Kevin Baird, BSc, MSc, PhD, FASTMH, is the Director of OUCRU Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Professor of Malariology at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

Expertise

Kevin served 22 years on active duty in the US Navy Medical Service Corps as a Microbiologist specializing in malaria prevention, control, treatment, epidemiology, and immunology research.

He has long focused on Plasmodium vivax malaria, in particular on the problems of G6PD deficiency and cytochrome P-450 2D6 pharmacogenetics regarding the toxicity and efficacy of primaquine therapy against relapse of that species. His laboratory undertakes clinical trials of therapies against relapse of P. vivax, principally in Indonesian soldiers but also in village settings, in addition to laboratory and field studies of G6PD deficiency biochemistry, diagnostics, and epidemiology. Kevin also leads randomized controlled trials of experimental vaccines for the prevention of malaria.

 

Timeline

Medals

  • Navy Humanitarian Service Medal (2004, 2005)
  • Navy Meritorious Service Medal (1999, 2003, 2005)
  • Navy Achievement Medal (1996)
  • Navy Commendation Medal (1996, 2005)
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal (1988)

2006

Honourable discharge from US Navy active duty, 1984-2006, with the rank of Captain, Medical Service Corps

2005

Bailey K. Ashford Medal for outstanding work in the field of tropical medicine by the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

1987

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Military Scientist of the Year

1986

Councillor to the Helminthological Society of Washington

1985

Vice President of the Tropical Medicine Association of Washington

1984

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Scientific Achievement Award

PhD

Medical Parasitology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

MSc.

Master of Science, Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

BSc.

Bachelor of Science, Microbiology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

Publications

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