Harriet Mpairwe

Harriet Mpairwe is a clinician and epidemiologist based at the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit in Entebbe, Uganda. She is currently a Wellcome Trust training fellow, and my post-doctoral research is investigating the risk factors associated with asthma among children in Uganda, with emphasis on chronic immune-modulating infections such as worms and malaria. She obtained her Master’s degree (Epidemiology) and PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2005 and 2011, respectively. She is currently in Leiden as a LeidenASA visiting fellow, from September to November 2017, where she plans to develop a project on M-Health.

Publications:

Namara B, Nash S, Lule SA, Akurut H, Mpairwe H, Akello F, Tumusiime J, Kizza M, Kabagenyi J, Nkurunungi G, Muhangi L, Webb EL, Muwanga M, Elliott AM. Effects of treating helminths during pregnancy and early childhood on risk of allergy-related outcomes: follow up of a randomized controlled trial. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2017 Sep 11. doi: 10.1111/pai.12804. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID:28892575.

Sanya RE, Nkurunungi G, Andia Biraro I, Mpairwe H, Elliott AM. A life without worms. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Mar 18:1-9. doi:10.1093/trstmh/trx010. [Epub ahead of print].

Lule SA, Mpairwe H, Nampijja M, Akello F, Kabagenyi J, Namara B, Nkurunungi G, Kizito D, Kahwa J, Muhangi L, Nash S, Muwanga M, Webb EL, Elliott AM. Life-course of atopy and allergy-related disease events in tropical sub-Saharan Africa: a birth cohort study. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2017 Jun;28(4):377-383.

Mpairwe H, Ndibazza J, Webb EL, Nampijja M, Muhangi L, Apule B, Lule S, Akurut H, Kizito D, Kakande M, Jones FM, Fitzsimmons CM, Muwanga M, Rodrigues LC, Dunne DW, Elliott AM. Maternal hookworm modifies risk factors for childhood eczema: results from a birth cohort in Uganda. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2014 Aug; 25(5):481-8.

Wammes L, Mpairwe H, Elliott AM, Yazdanbakhsh M. Global worming or deworming? A review of contrasting scientific directions. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2014 Nov; 14(11):1150-62.