Kathryn Maitland FRCPCH, FMedSci

Kathryn Maitland is a professor of Pediatric Tropical Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the IC CARE Centre at the Global Centre of Health Innovation, Imperial College, London, and an Honorary Fellow at MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College, London. Over the last 20 years, Kathryn has been based full-time in East Africa, where she leads a research group that has highlighted the unique importance of emergency-care research as a highly targeted and cost-effective means of tackling childhood mortality in resource-limited sub-Saharan Africa hospitals. Her major research portfolio includes severe malaria, bacterial sepsis, and severe malnutrition.