List of works by Chris Whitty

"Even if the test result is negative, they should be able to tell us what is wrong with us": a qualitative study of patient expectations of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria

scientific article published on 22 July 2013

"No sex please--we're on TB treatment".

scientific article published in May 2000

A 32-year-old Woman from Nigeria with Jaundice and Confusion

A 62-year-old Woman from Ethiopia with Difficulty Eating

scholarly article published 2015

A comparison of prospective and retrospective diary methods of assessing alcohol use among university undergraduates

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

A mixed methods study of a health worker training intervention to increase syndromic referral for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in South Sudan.

scientific article

A quantitative analysis of the microvascular sequestration of malaria parasites in the human brain

scientific article published on August 1999

A randomised trial of an eight-week, once weekly primaquine regimen to prevent relapse of plasmodium vivax in Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan

scientific article

Adult bacterial meningitis in malawi: a randomised controlled trail of steroid adjuvant therapy and a comparison of intravenous and intramuscular ceftriaxone

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Advising on travel during pregnancy

scientific article published on 28 April 2011

Amodiaquine alone, amodiaquine+sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, amodiaquine+artesunate, and artemether-lumefantrine for outpatient treatment of malaria in Tanzanian children: a four-arm randomised effectiveness trial

scientific article published on April 2005

Amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine select distinct alleles of the Plasmodium falciparum mdr1 gene in Tanzanian children treated for uncomplicated malaria.

scientific article published on 28 December 2006

An economic evaluation of home management of malaria in Uganda: an interactive Markov model

scientific article

An interactive model for the assessment of the economic costs and benefits of different rapid diagnostic tests for malaria

scientific article

Antimalarial treatment with artemisinin combination therapy in Africa

scientific article published on October 2005

Antiprotozoal drugs

Artemisinin-based combination treatment for malaria in Africa: no perfect solutions

scientific article

Artesunate, artemether or quinine in severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria?

scientific article published on April 2007

Assessing the severity of malaria.

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Assessment of children for acute respiratory infections in hospital outpatients in Tanzania: what drives good practice?

scientific article

Averting a malaria disaster in Africa--where does the buck stop?

scientific article published on May 2004

Azithromycin plus artesunate versus artemether-lumefantrine for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Tanzanian children: a randomized, controlled trial.

scientific article published on October 2009

Biotechnology: Africa and Asia need a rational debate on GM crops.

scientific article published in May 2013

Burkholderia pseudomallei infection, or melioidosis, and nephrotic syndrome

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Caesarean section in Malawi: prospective study of early maternal and perinatal mortality

scientific article published in September 2003

Clinical presentation and diagnostic sensitivity of laboratory tests for Strongyloides stercoralis in travellers compared with immigrants in a non-endemic country.

scientific article

Clinical, geographical, and temporal risk factors associated with presentation and outcome of vivax malaria imported into the United Kingdom over 27 years: observational study

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Cochrane column.

scientific article published on 8 July 2014

Confusion or reduced level of consciousness in the returned traveller

Correction: Manslaughter by Fake Artesunate in Asia—Will Africa Be Next?

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Corticosteroids for bacterial meningitis in adults in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on December 2007

Cost-effectiveness analysis of introducing RDTs for malaria diagnosis as compared to microscopy and presumptive diagnosis in central and peripheral public health facilities in Ghana

scientific article published on 26 August 2013

Cost-effectiveness of malaria diagnosis using rapid diagnostic tests compared to microscopy or clinical symptoms alone in Afghanistan

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Cost-effectiveness of malaria diagnostic methods in sub-Saharan Africa in an era of combination therapy.

scientific article

Cost-effectiveness study of three antimalarial drug combinations in Tanzania

scientific article

Deployment of ACT antimalarials for treatment of malaria: challenges and opportunities

scientific article published on 11 December 2008

Diagnosing human African trypanosomiasis in Angola using a card agglutination test: observational study of active and passive case finding strategies

scientific article

Diagnosis of malaria in children's outpatient departments in Abuja, Nigeria.

scientific article

Differences in biological risk factors for cardiovascular disease between three ethnic groups in the Whitehall II study

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Differences in willingness to pay for artemisinin-based combinations or monotherapy: experiences from the United Republic of Tanzania

scientific article

Ebola virus disease: emergence, outbreak and future directions.

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Effect of ivermectin on Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes fed on humans: the potential of oral insecticides in malaria control

scientific article

Effect of removing direct payment for health care on utilisation and health outcomes in Ghanaian children:

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Electrocardiographic and biochemical adverse effects of sodium stibogluconate during treatment of cutaneous and mucosal leishmaniasis among returned travellers

scientific article published on 9 November 2005

Empiric albendazole therapy and eosinophilia recommendations – a cautionary note

scholarly article by Anna M. Checkley et al published May 2010 in Journal of Infection

Eosinophilia in returning travellers and migrants from the tropics: UK recommendations for investigation and initial management

scientific article published in January 2010

Erasmus, syphilis, and the abuse of stigma.

scientific article published in December 1999

Factors influencing choice of care-seeking for acute fever comparing private chemical shops with health centres and hospitals in Ghana: a study using case-control methodology

scientific article (publication date: 25 May 2016)

Falciparum malaria as a cause of fever in adult travellers returning to the United Kingdom: observational study of risk by geographical area.

scientific article

Fever in returned travellers presenting in the United Kingdom: recommendations for investigation and initial management

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

Field trial of three different Plasmodium vivax-detecting rapid diagnostic tests with and without evaporative cool box storage in Afghanistan

scientific article

Foreword: Lesson learning about getting research into policy and practice

scientific article

Four principles to make evidence synthesis more useful for policy

scientific article published in Nature

Geographic, symptomatic and laboratory predictors of parasitic and bacterial causes of diarrhoea in travellers.

scientific article published on 20 July 2012

Geographical and temporal trends and seasonal relapse in Plasmodium ovale spp. and Plasmodium malariae infections imported to the UK between 1987 and 2015

Geographical and temporal trends in imported infections from the tropics requiring inpatient care at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London - a 15 year study

scientific article

Global health partnerships

scientific article published on March 2007

Guidelines and mindlines: why do clinical staff over-diagnose malaria in Tanzania? A qualitative study.

scientific article published on 2 April 2008

Guidelines for field surveys of the quality of medicines: a proposal

scientific article

High mortality rates in tuberculosis patients in Zomba Hospital, Malawi, during 32 months of follow-up.

scientific article published in May 2000

Home management of malaria with artemether-lumefantrine compared with standard care in urban Ugandan children: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 9 April 2009

How can malaria rapid diagnostic tests achieve their potential? A qualitative study of a trial at health facilities in Ghana

scientific article

If I could set the medical research agenda for the next ten years

Impact of introduction of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria on antibiotic prescribing: analysis of observational and randomised studies in public and private healthcare settings

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Impact of rapid screening tests on acquisition of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: cluster randomised crossover trial

scientific article published on 16 April 2008

Implications of attempts to eliminate malaria for front-line clinicians

scientific article published in January 2008

Imported malaria and high risk groups: observational study using UK surveillance data 1987-2006

scientific article

Improving prescribing practices with rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs): synthesis of 10 studies to explore reasons for variation in malaria RDT uptake and adherence

scientific article published on 08 March 2017

In Tanzania, hemolysis after a single dose of primaquine coadministered with an artemisinin is not restricted to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient (G6PD A-) individuals

scientific article

Infectious disease: tough choices to reduce Ebola transmission

scientific article published on November 2014

Intensive care admissions for children with imported malaria in the United kingdom.

scientific article published in December 2010

Interaction of malaria and HIV in Africa

scientific article published on 3 June 2009

Interpreting tests for iron deficiency among adults in a high HIV prevalence African setting: routine tests may lead to misdiagnosis.

scientific article

Introducing malaria rapid diagnostic tests in private medicine retail outlets: A systematic literature review

scientific article

Introduction

Investigating individual subjects and screening populations for asymptomatic carotid stenosis can be harmful.

scientific article

Investigation and treatment of imported malaria in non-endemic countries

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Investigation of tropical eosinophilia; assessing a strategy based on geographical area.

scientific article published on April 2003

Knowledge and practices for preventing severe malaria in Yemen: the importance of gender in planning policy.

scientific article published on 2 September 2009

Leprosy--new perspectives on an old disease.

scientific article

Likely health outcomes for untreated acute febrile illness in the tropics in decision and economic models; a Delphi survey

scientific article

Malaria

scientific article published in 2005 in The Lancet

Malaria

scholarly article by Walker, Nadjm, and Whitty

Malaria

scholarly article by Naomi F. Walker et al published February 2014 in Medicine

Malaria at Christmas: risks of prophylaxis versus risks of malaria.

scientific article

Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality

scientific article published on 25 July 2015

Malaria in pregnancy

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Malaria prophylaxis for the 1990s and beyond.

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Malaria: an update on treatment of adults in non-endemic countries.

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Management of malaria and other severe infections in rural Africa and Asia

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Manslaughter by fake artesunate in Asia--will Africa be next?

scientific article

Milroy Lecture: eradication of disease: hype, hope and reality.

scientific article

Modelling the impact of artemisinin combination therapy and long-acting treatments on malaria transmission intensity

scientific article published on 25 November 2008

Mortality rates and recurrent rates of tuberculosis in patients with smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculous pleural effusion who have completed treatment.

scientific article published in October 2000

Motivation, money and respect: a mixed-method study of Tanzanian non-physician clinicians.

scientific article

New therapies and changing patterns of treatment for malaria.

scientific article published on December 1999

New tools to fight disease should be celebrated, but we also need the systems and the people to deliver them

scientific article published in October 2006

Overdiagnosis and mistreatment of malaria among febrile patients at primary healthcare level in Afghanistan: observational study.

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Overdiagnosis of malaria in patients with severe febrile illness in Tanzania: a prospective study

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Physical accessibility and utilization of health services in Yemen.

scientific article published on 21 July 2010

Plasmodium falciparum cross resistance

scientific article published in January 2002

Pneumococcal disease in HIV-infected Malawian adults: acute mortality and long-term survival

scientific article published on July 2002

Political, social and technical risks in the last stages of disease eradication campaigns.

scientific article published on September 2015

Prospective, national clinical and epidemiologic study on imported childhood malaria in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

scientific article published in May 2010

Providing incentives to share data early in health emergencies: the role of journal editors

scientific article

Quinine levels revisited: the value of routine drug level monitoring for those on parenteral therapy

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Randomized trial of artesunate+amodiaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine+amodiaquine, chlorproguanal-dapsone and SP for malaria in pregnancy in Tanzania

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Rapid diagnostic tests compared with malaria microscopy for guiding outpatient treatment of febrile illness in Tanzania: randomised trial

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Rapid diagnostic tests to improve treatment of malaria and other febrile illnesses: patient randomised effectiveness trial in primary care clinics in Afghanistan

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Rapid testing for malaria in settings where microscopy is available and peripheral clinics where only presumptive treatment is available: a randomised controlled trial in Ghana.

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Requests for malaria prevention advice to Public Health England, Malaria Reference Laboratory: a retrospective observational study

scientific article published on 2 June 2013

Risk factors for mortality from imported falciparum malaria in the United Kingdom over 20 years: an observational study

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2012)

Role of healthcare workers in early epidemic spread of Ebola: policy implications of prophylactic compared to reactive vaccination policy in outbreak prevention and control

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Scale-up of services and research priorities for diagnosis, management, and control of tuberculosis: a call to action

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Schistosomiasis in non-endemic countries.

scientific article published on February 2015

Schistosomiasis presenting in travellers: a 15 year observational study at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London.

scientific article published on 08 January 2015

Science, medicine, and the future: Malaria

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Self-use of rapid tests for malaria diagnosis

scientific article published in The Lancet

Serological speciation of human schistosome infections by ELISA with a panel of three antigens.

scientific article published on November 2004

Severe febrile illness in adult hospital admissions in Tanzania: a prospective study in an area of high malaria transmission.

scientific article published on 28 September 2012

Severe imported falciparum malaria among adults requiring intensive care: a retrospective study at the hospital for tropical diseases, London

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Severe malaria in children in Yemen: two site observational study

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Socioeconomic and environmental factors important for acquiring non-severe malaria in children in Yemen: a case-control study

scientific article published on 23 October 2008

Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, chlorproguanil-dapsone, or chloroquine for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Afghanistan and Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on May 2007

Syndromic algorithms for detection of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in South Sudan

scientific article

Tackling emerging infections: clinical and public health lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak, 2014-2015.

scientific article published on October 2015

Tackling emerging infections: clinical and public health lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak, 2014-2015.

scientific article published in December 2015

The Impact of Introducing Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests on Fever Case Management: A Synthesis of Ten Studies from the ACT Consortium

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

The RTS,S malaria vaccine.

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

The changing aetiology of eosinophilia in migrants and returning travellers in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London 2002-2015: An observational study

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

The contribution of biological, mathematical, clinical, engineering and social sciences to combatting the West African Ebola epidemic

scientific article (publication date: 26 May 2017)

The cost-effectiveness of parasitologic diagnosis for malaria-suspected patients in an era of combination therapy.

scientific article published on December 2007

The debate over combination drug policy for malaria: it may not just be the patients' temperatures which need to be brought down.

scientific article published in July 2004

The impact of phenotypic and genotypic G6PD deficiency on risk of plasmodium vivax infection: a case-control study amongst Afghan refugees in Pakistan

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The impact of providing rapid diagnostic malaria tests on fever management in the private retail sector in Ghana: a cluster randomized trial. ⬇️

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The impact of response to the results of diagnostic tests for malaria: cost-benefit analysis

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The importance of context in malaria diagnosis and treatment decisions - a quantitative analysis of observed clinical encounters in Tanzania.

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Treatable factors associated with severe anaemia in adults admitted to medical wards in Blantyre, Malawi, an area of high HIV seroprevalence

scientific article published in August 2005

Treating severe malaria

scientific article published on February 2005

Treatment guided by rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in Tanzanian children: safety and alternative bacterial diagnoses

scientific article published on 6 October 2011

Trend analysis of imported malaria in London; observational study 2000 to 2014.

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UK malaria treatment guidelines

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UK malaria treatment guidelines 2016.

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Urban/rural differences in prevalence and risk factors for intestinal helminth infection in southern Malawi.

scientific article published on June 2000

Use of BCG vaccination

scientific article published in The Lancet

Use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests by community health workers in Afghanistan: cluster randomised trial

scientific article

WHO guidelines for antimicrobial treatment in children admitted to hospital in an area of intense Plasmodium falciparum transmission: prospective study

scientific article (publication date: 30 March 2010)

What makes an academic paper useful for health policy?

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Who benefits from free healthcare? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

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Who develops severe malaria? Impact of access to healthcare, socio-economic and environmental factors on children in Yemen: a case-control study.

scientific article published on 10 April 2008

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