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Alison Talbert 9
Principal Investigator
Biography
Alison Talbert is a paediatrician with a Master’s degree in epidemiology. Research interests are malnutrition, infection, and infant and young child feeding. She moved to Kilifi in 2005 from Tanzania and has worked on malnutrition studies led by Professor Kath Maitland and Dr. Jay Berkley. She has been an investigator on a study of endotoxinaemia in malnutrition and malaria, and on clinical trials of an outpatient treatment strategy of ready to use supplementary food in moderate malnutrition (Modmal) and omega-3 PUFA enriched ready to use therapeutic food in treatment of severe acute malnutrition (NjuguPlus). She is a member of the Neonatal Nutrition Network (NeoNuNet), originally a collaboration of 2 Kenyan and 5 Nigerian newborn units with UK scientists from Liverpool and Newcastle, which has now expanded into 7 African countries.
Biography
Alison Talbert is a paediatrician with a Master’s degree in epidemiology. Research interests are malnutrition, infection, and infant and young child feeding. She moved to Kilifi in 2005 from Tanzania and has worked on malnutrition studies led by Professor Kath Maitland and Dr. Jay Berkley. She has been an investigator on a study of endotoxinaemia in malnutrition and malaria, and on clinical trials of an outpatient treatment strategy of ready to use supplementary food in moderate malnutrition (Modmal) and omega-3 PUFA enriched ready to use therapeutic food in treatment of severe acute malnutrition (NjuguPlus). She is a member of the Neonatal Nutrition Network (NeoNuNet), originally a collaboration of 2 Kenyan and 5 Nigerian newborn units with UK scientists from Liverpool and Newcastle, which has now expanded into 7 African countries.
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Time to full enteral feeds in hospitalised preterm and very low birth weight infants in Nigeria and Kenya.
Imam, Z. O., Nabwera, H. M., Tongo, O. O., Andang'o, P. E. A., Abdulkadir, I., Ezeaka, C. V., Ezenwa, B. N., Fajolu, I. B., Mwangome, M. K., Umoru, D. D., Akindolire, A. E., Otieno, W., Olwala, M., Nalwa, G. M., Talbert, A. W., Abubakar, I., Embleton, N. D., Allen, S. J.
PLoS One, (2024). 19:e0277847
Time to full enteral feeds in hospitalised preterm and very low birth weight infants in Nigeria and Kenya.
Imam, Z. O., Nabwera, H. M., Tongo, O. O., Andang'o, P. E. A., Abdulkadir, I., Ezeaka, C. V., Ezenwa, B. N., Fajolu, I. B., Mwangome, M. K., Umoru, D. D., Akindolire, A. E., Otieno, W., Olwala, M., Nalwa, G. M., Talbert, A. W., Abubakar, I., Embleton, N. D., Allen, S. J.
PLoS One, (2024). 19:e0277847
Derivation and external validation of a clinical prognostic model identifying children at risk of death following presentation for diarrheal care.
Ahmed, S. M., Brintz, B. J., Talbert, A., Ngari, M., Pavlinac, P. B., Platts-Mills, J. A., Levine, A. C., Nelson, E. J., Walson, J. L., Kotloff, K. L., Berkley, J. A., Leung, D. T.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2023). 3:e0001937
Trends in inpatient and post-discharge mortality among young infants admitted to Kilifi County Hospital, Kenya: a retrospective cohort study.
Talbert, A., Ngari, M., Obiero, C., Nyaguara, A., Mwangome, M., Mturi, N., Ouma, N., Otiende, M., Berkley, J.
BMJ Open, (2023). 13:e067482
Prospective observational study of the challenges in diagnosing common neonatal conditions in Nigeria and Kenya.
Staunton, A. P., Nabwera, H. M., Allen, S. J., Tongo, O. O., Akindolire, A. E., Abdulkadir, I., Ezeaka, C. V., Ezenwa, B. N., Fajolu, I. B., Imam, Z. O., Umoru, D. D., Otieno, W., Nalwa, G. M., Olwala, M., Talbert, A. W., Andang'o, P. E. A., Mwangome, M. K., Abubakar, I., Embleton, N. D.
BMJ Open, (2022). 12:e064575