← back to search

Umberto D’Alessandro

MRC Unit the Gambia · GB
Area of research
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · Parasitology
Research interest
Research interests include Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Parasites and Host Interactions, and Global Maternal and Child Health.
h-index
79
citations
23,707
works
732
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Emergence and spread of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (BA.1) variant across Africa: an observational study
The Lancet Global Health 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
Impact of dhps mutations on sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine protective efficacy and implications for malaria chemoprevention
Nature Communications 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
PREgnancy Care Integrating translational Science, Everywhere (PRECISE): a prospective cohort study of African pregnant and non-pregnant women to investigate placental disorders – cohort profile
BMJ Open 2025cited by 6position: middledoi
Asymptomatic school children and adults are important for the human infectious reservoir for Plasmodium falciparum malaria in an area of low endemicity in The Gambia
Journal of Infection 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Sensitive near point-of-care detection of asymptomatic and submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections in African endemic countries
Nature Communications 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Characterisation of between-cluster heterogeneity in malaria cluster randomised trials to inform future sample size calculations
Nature Communications 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
Cohort Profile: Basse Health and Demographic Surveillance System, the Gambia
International Journal of Epidemiology 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
A survey of indoor and outdoor Anopheles density, species composition and circumsporozoite rate of malaria vectors on the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
Malaria Journal 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
Cohort Profile: PRECISE-DYAD: a prospective cohort study linking maternal and infant health trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa
medRxiv 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Immunogenicity of yellow fever vaccine co-administered with 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in rural Gambia: A cluster-randomised trial
Vaccine 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Household clustering and seasonal genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum at the community-level in The Gambia
eLife 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Household clustering and seasonal genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum at the community-level in The Gambia
eLife 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum carriage at the end of the dry season is associated with subsequent infection and clinical malaria in Eastern Gambia
Malaria Journal 2024cited by 21position: middledoi
Adjunctive ivermectin mass drug administration for malaria control on the Bijagos Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau (MATAMAL): a quadruple-blinded, cluster-randomised, placebo-controlled trial
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2024cited by 15position: middledoi
Household-level effects of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Gambia
Communications Medicine 2024cited by 12position: middledoi
Tobacco smoking clusters in households affected by tuberculosis in an individual participant data meta-analysis of national tuberculosis prevalence surveys: Time for household-wide interventions?
PLOS Global Public Health 2024cited by 9position: middledoi
Impact of Intrapartum Azithromycin on the Carriage and Antibiotic Resistance of <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> in Mothers and Their Newborns: A Substudy of a Randomized, Double-Blind Trial Conducted in The Gambia and Burkina Faso
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2024cited by 9position: middledoi
The PRECISE-DYAD protocol: linking maternal and infant health trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa
Wellcome Open Research 2024cited by 5position: middledoi
Identification of complex Plasmodium falciparum genetic backgrounds circulating in Africa: a multicountry genomic epidemiology analysis
The Lancet Microbe 2024cited by 5position: middledoi
Household clustering and seasonal genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum at the community-level in The Gambia
eLife 2024cited by 4position: middledoi
Household clustering and seasonal genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum at the community-level in The Gambia
eLife 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
The effect of physical barriers under a raised house on mosquito entry: an experimental study in rural Gambia
Malaria Journal 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
Pf7: an open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 20,000 worldwide samples
Wellcome Open Research 2023cited by 145position: middledoi
Chloroquine resistance evolution in Plasmodium falciparum is mediated by the putative amino acid transporter AAT1
Nature Microbiology 2023cited by 92position: middledoi
Effect of Intrapartum Azithromycin vs Placebo on Neonatal Sepsis and Death
JAMA 2023cited by 52position: middledoi
Prevalence of and risk factors for microscopic and submicroscopic malaria infections in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The Lancet Global Health 2023cited by 31position: middledoi
Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum carriage and clinical disease: a 5-year community-based longitudinal study in The Gambia
Malaria Journal 2023cited by 24position: lastdoi
Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infections in The Gambia: an analysis of routinely collected surveillance data between March, 2020, and January, 2022
The Lancet Global Health 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
Protocol for a cluster randomised placebo-controlled trial of adjunctive ivermectin mass drug administration for malaria control on the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau: the MATAMAL trial
BMJ Open 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
Association of diabetes, smoking, and alcohol use with subclinical-to-symptomatic spectrum of tuberculosis in 16 countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis of national tuberculosis prevalence surveys
EClinicalMedicine 2023cited by 16position: middledoi

Grants

No grants ingested yet.

Frequent collaborators

Chris Drakeley · Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit28 papers (2013–2025)John Bradley · Partners for Health and Development in Africa27 papers (2017–2024)Teun Bousema · Armauer Hansen Research Institute25 papers (2014–2025)Joseph Okebe · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine25 papers (2013–2023)Anna Roca · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine24 papers (2014–2025)Muna Affara · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine22 papers (2013–2023)Steve W. Lindsay · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine21 papers (2012–2024)Christian Bottomley · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine20 papers (2014–2022)Musa Jawara · University of Antwerp20 papers (2012–2024)Jane Achan · Malaria Consortium19 papers (2015–2023) · 19 papers (2013–2021)Jean‐Pierre Van Geertruyden · University of Antwerp19 papers (2014–2023)Halidou Tinto · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique19 papers (2013–2023)Davis Nwakanma · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine18 papers (2013–2023)Margaret Pinder · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine17 papers (2012–2022)Julia Mwesigwa · Program for Appropriate Technology in Health16 papers (2015–2020)Annette Erhart · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine15 papers (2013–2025)Bully Camara · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine13 papers (2015–2022)David Jeffries · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine12 papers (2013–2024)David J Conway · University of London12 papers (2014–2025)