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Professor Umberto D'Alessandro

MRC - Unit Director

Medical Research Council The Gambia Unit
Atlantic Boulevard
Fajara
Gambia

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Prof. Umberto D'Alessandro graduated in Medicine & Surgery at the University of Pisa, Italy, and then obtained both his MSc and PhD at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, in 1990 and 1996 respectively. He worked as a clinician in Benin and Kenya. In 1990, he joined the MRC Unit The Gambia as clinical epidemiologist and carried out the evaluation of the Gambian National Program on insecticide-treated bed nets that showed the intervention decreased mortality among children by 25%. In 1996, he joined the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, where he developed a research program around three themes: antimalarial treatment, including drug resistance, malaria prevention, and the P. vivax in vitro cycle, implemented in several malaria endemic countries, e.g. Uganda, Burkina Faso, Benin, Vietnam, Peru, etc. In 2011, he joined the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia (MRCG) as the leader of the Disease Control & Elimination Theme. In January 2014, he was appointed Director of the Unit and Professor of Epidemiology at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research program on malaria is built around questions related to malaria elimination/eradication.

Affiliations
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM

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Vaccine Centre
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Teaching
I taught for several years in the MSc Disease Control at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. I was also member of the management team of this MSc course. I was also course organizer for several years of the International course on Planning and Management of Tropical Diseases Control Programmes (10 weeks) at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. I have also taught in other courses in Italy and The Netherlands. I have supervised 24 PhD students who completed their degree. I am currently supervising 5 PhD students. I was also the supervisor of 34 MSc students. I am currently teaching in the introductory course of epidemiology and medical statistics at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Research
My main research interest has been and continue to be on malaria, although I have been involved in research on hepatitis B, bacterial diseases, and more recently COVID-19. For malaria, I have investigated malaria transmission in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America, and evaluated preventive interventions such as insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor residual spraying, mass drug administration, and malaria vaccines. I have also evaluated new antimalarial treatments and drug resistance, and new tools for the diagnosis of malaria, both for patients with suspected clinical malaria and for asymptomatic carriers.

Selected Publications
Guery, M-A; Ceesay, S; Drammeh, S; Jaiteh, FK; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Bousema, T; Conway, DJ; Claessens, A;
2025
eLife
Guery, M-A; Ceesay, S; Drammeh, S; Jaiteh, FK; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Bousema, T; Conway, DJ; Claessens, A;
2025
eLife
Soumare, HM; Blanken, SL; Ahmad, A; Ooko, M; Gaye, PM; Jadama, L; Camara, MM; Jawara, EA; Lanke, K; Njie, AK; Mendy, M; Etoketim, B; Camara, L; NDIATH, MO; Conteh, B; Muhammed, N; SOREMEKUN, S; Nyassi, A; ERHART, A; DRAKELEY, C; Bousema, T; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Moreno, M;
2025
Journal of Infection
Ndow, G; Bangura, R; Vo-Quang, E; Touray, F; Jatta, A; Barry, J; Mahmoud, I; Bah, S; Nyassi, FB; Ceesay, A; Bola-Lawal, Q; Touray, AB; Drammeh, S; Cham, H; Bojang, L; Cloherty, G; Lo, G; Bittaye, M; Badjie, S; Toure-Kane, C; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Shimakawa, Y; Lemoine, M;
2025
The Journal of infectious diseases
Kinshella, M-LW; Dama, S; Wanje, O; Pires, R; Boene, H; Jagne, P; Jah, H; Koech, A; Mwashigadi, G; Naanyu, V; IDRIS, Y; Kongira, F; Diallo, BA; Ceesay, O; Volvert, M-L; Mistry, HD; Temmerman, M; Sevene, E; ROCA, A; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Vidler, M; Magee, LA; Von Dadelszen, P; Moore, SE; Elango, R; ... PRECISE Network,
2025
PLOS global public health
AMAMBUA-NGWA, A; Diop, MF; DRAKELEY, C; D’Alessandro, U; Kwiatkowski, D; CONWAY, D;
2025
bioRxiv
OSEI, I; Schmidt-Chanasit, J; Licciardi, PV; Secka, O; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Salaudeen, R; Sarwar, G; CLARKE, E; MOHAMMED, NI; Nguyen, C; GREENWOOD, B; Jansen, S; MACKENZIE, GA;
2025
Vaccine
NDOW, G; Shimakawa, Y; Leith, D; Bah, S; Bangura, R; Mahmoud, I; Bojang, L; Ceesay, A; Drammeh, S; Bola-Lawal, Q; Lambert, G; Hardy, P; Ingiliz, P; Haddadin, Y; Vo-Quang, E; Chevaliez, S; Cloherty, G; Bittaye, SO; Lo, G; Toure-Kane, C; Mendy, M; Njie, R; Chemin, I; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Thursz, M; ... Lemoine, M.
2024
The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
HUTCHINS, H; Pretorius, E; BRADLEY, J; Teixeira da Silva, E; Vasileva, H; NDIATH, MO; JONES, RT; Soumare, HD M; Nyang, H; Prom, A; Sambou, S; Ceesay, F; Ceesay, S; MOSS, S; Mabey, D; Djata, P; Nante, JE; Martins, C; LOGAN, JG; Slater, H; Tetteh, K; DRAKELEY, C; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Rodrigues, A; LAST, A;
2024
The Lancet. Infectious diseases
Rodriguez-Manzano, J; Subramaniam, S; Uchea, C; Szostak-Lipowicz, KM; Freeman, J; Rauch, M; Tinto, H; Zar, HJ; D'ALESSANDRO, U; Holmes, AH; Awandare, GA;
2024
The Lancet. Digital health
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Atlantic Boulevard
Fajara
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