Kevin Marsh (researcher)

Since 2014 Marsh has been senior adviser at the African Academy of sciences, based at their headquarters in Nairobi, where he worked with colleagues to develop the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA), a platform aiming to shift the centre of gravity of research to the African continent. He currently co leads the AAS Covid programme which has worked closely with AUDA NEPAD, Africa CDC and WHO Afro to develop COVID-19 research priorities for the continent.

Marsh chaired the WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee from 2012 till 2019 and is a member of numerous international committees relating to malaria and to global health research. He is a Fellow of St Cross College and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Academy of Medical Sciences, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, African Academy of Sciences and World Academy of Sciences.

Marsh initiated his research career at the Medical Research Council Unit in the Gambia, where he worked on the immunology of malaria. From 1985 till 1989, he was at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. In 1989, he, along with his colleagues, established a series of research projects on the immunology and clinical epidemiology of malaria at Kilifi on the coast of Kenya; these developed into an international programme, the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, which he directed until 2014. Marsh has been a Professor of Tropical Medicine in Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford since 1994 and is currently Director of Africa Oxford Initiative.

Marsh completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Degree in 1978 from Liverpool University. He received his post graduate diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1982 from Liverpool.