
Prof. Charles Newton
Principal Investigator
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Charles was born in Kenya, qualified in Cape Town, South Africa, with postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Manchester and London, United Kingdom. As a lecturer at University of Oxford, he returned to Kilifi Kenya in 1989, to help set up an unit to study severe malaria in African children. Thereafter he spent 2 years as a Post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, USA; studying mechanisms of brain damage in central nervous system infections. He completed his training in Paediatric Neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK. In 1998 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship at University College London, to return to Kilifi, to study CNS infections in children. He has published on a wide variety of subjects concerning sick children in tropical countries. In 2011 he took up a professorship in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford to concentrate of neurological and mental illness disorders in children living in Africa.
See moreCurrent Work
He conducts research on CNS infections in children; epidemiological studies of epilepsy and neurological impairment; tetanus, jaundice and sepsis in neonates. At present he is conducting studies of Autism and Epilepsy in Africa and working on sickle cell disease in Tanzania.
Recent publications
Economic evaluation of caregiver interventions for children with developmental disabilities: A scoping review.
Kairu, A., Dzoro, E., Angwenyi, V., Newton, C., Hanlon, C., Hoekstra, R. A., Abubakar, A., Barasa, E.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2025). 5:e0003928
High epilepsy prevalence and excess mortality in onchocerciasis-endemic counties of South Sudan: A call for integrated interventions.
Amaral, L. J., Jada, S. R., Carter, J. Y., Bol, Y. Y., Basáñez, M. G., Newton, C. R., Fodjo, J. N. S., Colebunders, R.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, (2025). 19:e0013244
Akwenda Intervention Program for cerebral palsy: Improving quality of life in rural Uganda.
Newton, C. R.
Dev Med Child Neurol, (2025). :
Socio-medical factors associated with neurodevelopmental disorders on the Kenyan coast.
Kipkemoi, P., Savage, J. E., Gona, J., Rimba, K., Kombe, M., Mwangi, P., Kipkoech, C., Chepkemoi, E., Ngombo, A., Mkubwa, B., Rehema, C., Kariuki, S. M., Posthuma, D., Donald, K. A., Robinson, E., Abubakar, A., Newton, C. R.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2025). 5:e0003806
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
Rautalin, I., Volovici, V., Stark, B. A., Johnson, C. O., Kaprio, J., Korja, M., Krishnamurthi, R. V., Nair, B. S., Ranta, A., Rinkel, G. J. E., Vergouwen, M. D. I., Abate, Y. H., Abbastabar, H., Abd-Allah, F., Abdelkader, A., Abdi, P., Abdollahi, A., Abdullahi, A., Abiodun, O. O., Aboagye, R. G., Abouzid, M., Abtahi, D., Abu Rumeileh, S., Abualhasan, A., Abualruz, H., Abukhadijah, H. J., Abu-Zaid, A., Adamu, L. H., Addo, I. Y., Adedoyin, R. A., Adegboye, O. A., Adra, S., Adzigbli, L. A., Agyemang-Duah, W., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, A., Ahmad, D., Ahmadzade, A. M., Ahmed, A., Ahmed, H., Ahmed, S. A., Aji, B., Akkaif, M. A., Al-Ajlouni, Y., Al-Aly, Z., Albashtawy, M., Ali, M. U., Alif, S. M., Alimohamadi, Y., Aljunid, S. M., Alomari, M. A., Alrawashdeh, A., Alsabri, M. A., Salman, R. A., Altaf, A., Al-Tammemi, A. B., Alvis-Guzman, N., Alwafi, H., Al-Wardat, M., Al-Worafi, Y. M., Aly, H., Alyahya, M. S. I., Alzoubi, K. H., Amani, R., Amin, T. T., Amindarolzarbi, A., Amusa, G. 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JAMA Neurol, (2025). :

Prof. Charles Newton
Principal Investigator
Biography
Charles was born in Kenya, qualified in Cape Town, South Africa, with postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Manchester and London, United Kingdom. As a lecturer at University of Oxford, he returned to Kilifi Kenya in 1989, to help set up an unit to study severe malaria in African children. Thereafter he spent 2 years as a Post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, USA; studying mechanisms of brain damage in central nervous system infections. He completed his training in Paediatric Neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK. In 1998 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship at University College London, to return to Kilifi, to study CNS infections in children. He has published on a wide variety of subjects concerning sick children in tropical countries. In 2011 he took up a professorship in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford to concentrate of neurological and mental illness disorders in children living in Africa.
See moreCurrent Work
He conducts research on CNS infections in children; epidemiological studies of epilepsy and neurological impairment; tetanus, jaundice and sepsis in neonates. At present he is conducting studies of Autism and Epilepsy in Africa and working on sickle cell disease in Tanzania.
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Economic evaluation of caregiver interventions for children with developmental disabilities: A scoping review.
Kairu, A., Dzoro, E., Angwenyi, V., Newton, C., Hanlon, C., Hoekstra, R. A., Abubakar, A., Barasa, E.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2025). 5:e0003928
High epilepsy prevalence and excess mortality in onchocerciasis-endemic counties of South Sudan: A call for integrated interventions.
Amaral, L. J., Jada, S. R., Carter, J. Y., Bol, Y. Y., Basáñez, M. G., Newton, C. R., Fodjo, J. N. S., Colebunders, R.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, (2025). 19:e0013244
Akwenda Intervention Program for cerebral palsy: Improving quality of life in rural Uganda.
Newton, C. R.
Dev Med Child Neurol, (2025). :
Socio-medical factors associated with neurodevelopmental disorders on the Kenyan coast.
Kipkemoi, P., Savage, J. E., Gona, J., Rimba, K., Kombe, M., Mwangi, P., Kipkoech, C., Chepkemoi, E., Ngombo, A., Mkubwa, B., Rehema, C., Kariuki, S. M., Posthuma, D., Donald, K. A., Robinson, E., Abubakar, A., Newton, C. R.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2025). 5:e0003806
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
Rautalin, I., Volovici, V., Stark, B. A., Johnson, C. O., Kaprio, J., Korja, M., Krishnamurthi, R. V., Nair, B. S., Ranta, A., Rinkel, G. J. E., Vergouwen, M. D. I., Abate, Y. H., Abbastabar, H., Abd-Allah, F., Abdelkader, A., Abdi, P., Abdollahi, A., Abdullahi, A., Abiodun, O. O., Aboagye, R. G., Abouzid, M., Abtahi, D., Abu Rumeileh, S., Abualhasan, A., Abualruz, H., Abukhadijah, H. J., Abu-Zaid, A., Adamu, L. H., Addo, I. Y., Adedoyin, R. A., Adegboye, O. A., Adra, S., Adzigbli, L. A., Agyemang-Duah, W., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, A., Ahmad, D., Ahmadzade, A. M., Ahmed, A., Ahmed, H., Ahmed, S. A., Aji, B., Akkaif, M. A., Al-Ajlouni, Y., Al-Aly, Z., Albashtawy, M., Ali, M. U., Alif, S. M., Alimohamadi, Y., Aljunid, S. M., Alomari, M. A., Alrawashdeh, A., Alsabri, M. A., Salman, R. A., Altaf, A., Al-Tammemi, A. B., Alvis-Guzman, N., Alwafi, H., Al-Wardat, M., Al-Worafi, Y. M., Aly, H., Alyahya, M. S. I., Alzoubi, K. H., Amani, R., Amin, T. T., Amindarolzarbi, A., Amusa, G. A., Anderlini, D., Angappan, D., Anil, A., Anuoluwa, B. S., Anwar, S., Anyasodor, A. E., Apostol, G. L. C., Arabloo, J., Areda, D., Ärnlöv, J., Artamonov, A. A., Artanti, K. D., Arumugam, A., Aryan, Z., Asghari-Jafarabadi, M., Ashemo, M. Y., Ashraf, T., Athar, M., Athari, S. S., Aujayeb, A., Awotidebe, A. W., Azadnajafabad, S., Aziz, S., Azzam, A. Y., Babu, G. R., Bagheri, N., Bahrami Taghanaki, P., Bahramian, S., Bai, R., Baig, A. A., Bako, A. T., Baltatu, O. C., Bam, K., Banach, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Banik, B., Bardhan, M., Barker-Collo, S. L., Bärnighausen, T. W., Barqawi, H. J., Barua, L., Bastan, M. M., Basu, S., Bell, S. L., Bensenor, I. M., Berhie, A. Y., Beyene, K. A., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhaskar, S., Bhat, A. N., Bhat, V., Bhatti, G. K., Bhatti, J. S., Bijani, A., Bikbov, B., Birhan, M. M., Birhanu, M. M., Bitra, V. R., Boloor, A., Borhany, H., Breitner, S., Brenner, H., Bugiardini, R., Bulamu, N. B., Butt, Z. A., Cabral, L. S., Caetano Dos Santos, F. 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JAMA Neurol, (2025). :

Prof. Charles Newton 9
Principal Investigator
Biography
Charles was born in Kenya, qualified in Cape Town, South Africa, with postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Manchester and London, United Kingdom. As a lecturer at University of Oxford, he returned to Kilifi Kenya in 1989, to help set up an unit to study severe malaria in African children. Thereafter he spent 2 years as a Post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, USA; studying mechanisms of brain damage in central nervous system infections. He completed his training in Paediatric Neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK. In 1998 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship at University College London, to return to Kilifi, to study CNS infections in children. He has published on a wide variety of subjects concerning sick children in tropical countries. In 2011 he took up a professorship in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford to concentrate of neurological and mental illness disorders in children living in Africa.