Kevin Baird.
Kevin Baird.

Professor J. Kevin Baird

Interim-Director of OUCRU Programme

Professor Kevin Baird, BSc, MSc, PhD, FASTMH, is the Interim-Director of OUCRU Programme. He was the former Director 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.

 

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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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FocaL mass drug Administration for Plasmodium vivax Malaria Elimination (FLAME): study protocol for an open-label cluster randomized controlled trial in Peru
Sydney Fine, Astrid Altamirano Quiroz, Veronica Soto Calle, Paulo Manrique, Hugo Rodriguez, Gabriel Carrasco, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Adam Bennett, Sarah Auburn, Ric Price, Bryan Greenhouse, J Kevin Baird, Gonzalo Domingo, Michelle Roh, Angel Rosas, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Michelle Hsiang
Research Square
April 17, 2025
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-025-09112-1
Primaquine for uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in children younger than 15 years: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis
Commons RJ, Rajasekhar M, Allen EN, Yilma D, Chotsiri P, Abreha T, Adam I, Awab GR, Barber BE, Brasil LW, Chu CS, Cui L, Edler P, Gomes MDSM, Gonzalez-Ceron L, Grigg MJ, Hamid MMA, Hwang J, Karunajeewa H, Lacerda MVG, Ladeia-Andrade S, Leslie T, Longley RJ, Monteiro WM, Pasaribu AP, Poespoprodjo JR, Richmond CL, Rijal KR, Taylor WRJ, Thanh PV, Thriemer K, Vieira JLF, White NJ, Zuluaga-Idarraga LM, Workman LJ, Tarning J, Stepniewska K, Guerin PJ, Simpson JA, Barnes KI, Price RN; WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network Paediatric Primaquine Vivax Study Group (Baird JK, Inge Sutanto)
Lancet Child Adolesc Health
September 24, 2024
DOI: 10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00210-4
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