Kevin Marsh
Representative of the Executive Director, African
immunology
Immunobiology Ltd
American Samoa
Biography
Kevin Marsh is a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford and senior advisor at the African Academy of Sciences. He qualified in medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1978. After undertaking specialist training as a physician he began his research career at the Medical Research Council Unit in the Gambia working on the immunology of malaria. From 1985â€89 he was at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford and in 1989 established with colleagues a series of research projects on the clinical epidemiology and immunology of malaria in Kilifi on the Kenyan coast.
Research Interest
These have subsequently developed into an international programme (the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme) involving around 800 staff working across a number of countries in East Africa of which he was director until August 2014
