Professor ter Kuile is a clinical epidemiologist who trained in medicine at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam. He previously worked on the Thai-Burmese border (1988-1994), where he was based at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit as part of collaboration between the University of Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, and the Thai Mahidol University. This was followed by an 8-year period (1995-2003) with the Malaria Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), firstly the KEMRI-CDC field station in Kisumu, Western Kenya (1995-2001), then as a senior medical epidemiologist in Atlanta, GA, USA (2001-2003). He joined LSTM as senior clinical lecturer in 2003 and since 2008 is Professor of Tropical Epidemiology, heading the malaria epidemiology section in the department of Clinical Sciences and LSTM’s malaria research collaboration with KEMRI’s Centre for Global Health Research and CDC’s malaria branch in western Kenya.
Teaching
Lectures and small group teaching on malaria epidemiology on the postgraduate Masters and diploma courses at LSTM.
Research
His main research interest is the epidemiology of malaria and the evaluation of new interventions for the for the control of malaria in children and pregnant women. He currently also heads the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium, a network of 47 research institutions worldwide conducting research on the treatment and prevention of malaria in pregnancy.
Students
He currently supervises 6 Phd students and 2 MSc students
Other relevant expertise, professional memberships
• Member of several Data Safety Monitoring Boards;
• Regular ad hoc advisor to several of WHO’s Evidence Review Groups (ERG) for malaria
• Chair, Executive Committee, Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium;
• Chair management committee, IMPROVE Consortium malaria in pregnancy
Current Projects
EDCTP and DFID/MRC/Wellcome Trust
ter Kuile (PI) 2016-2020
Role: Chief Investigator
IPTp with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and azithromycin for malaria, sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections in pregnancy in high sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance areas in Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania (IMPROVE)
CDC Atlanta USA
ter Kuile (PI) 2010-2015
Role: Principal Investigator
Cooperative agreement with the Malaria Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA
Globvac, Research Council Norway
Roberstad (grant holder) 2015-2019
Role: Chief Investigator
Multi-site trial investigating post-discharge malaria chemoprevention trial for the post-discharge management of severe anaemia in children in Uganda and Kenya (PMC trial)
MACEPA, PATH, Seattle
ter Kuile (PI) 2011-2016
Role: Principal Investigator
Development of research on malaria transmission reduction and elimination in western Kenya
JGHT, DFID/MRC/Wellcome Trust
ter Kuile (PI) 2011-2017
Role: Chief Investigator
Intermittent screening and treatment or intermittent preventive therapy for control of malaria in pregnancy in Indonesia (STOPMIP Indonesia)