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 ofP. 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
Parinaz Mehdipour, Megha Rajasekhar, Saber Dini, Sophie Zaloumis, Tesfay Abreha, Ishag Adam, Ghulam Rahim Awab, J Kevin Baird, Larissa W Brasil, Cindy S Chu, Liwang Cui, Andre Daher, Margarete do Socorro M Gomes, Lilia Gonzalez-Ceron, Jimee Hwang, Harin Karunajeewa, Marcus V G Lacerda, Simone Ladeia-Andrade, Toby Leslie, Benedikt Ley, Kartini Lidia, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Rhea J Longley, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Dhelio B Pereira, Komal Raj Rijal, Kavitha Saravu, Inge Sutanto, Walter R J Taylor, Pham Vinh Thanh, Kamala Thriemer, Jose Luiz F Vieira, Nicholas J White, Lina M Zuluaga-Idarraga, Philippe J Guerin, Ric N Price, Julie A Simpson, Robert J Commons; WWARN Vivax Adherence Study Group
