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Overview

Tumani Corrah is affiliated with the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant emphasis on modeling and simulation, health, economics and econometrics, epidemiology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist has contributed to multiple topics related to infectious disease and global health, including:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Vaccine coverage and hesitancy
  • COVID-19 pandemic impacts
  • Global health and surgery
  • Pneumonia and respiratory infections
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Bacterial infections and vaccines

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Tumani Corrah cover critical issues in infectious diseases and public health. These include:

  • "A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat" (2022, Nature)
  • "Impact of the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumonia in The Gambia: 10 years of population-based surveillance" (2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases)
  • "Possible Reasons Why Sub-Saharan Africa Experienced a Less Severe COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020" (2021, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare)
  • "Why SARS-CoV-2 vaccination still matters in Africa" (2022, QJM)
  • "Africa is successfully developing its own science initiatives" (2022, Nature Africa)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, with multiple joint publications alongside Simon D. Taylor-Robinson, Marsha Y. Morgan, Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson, Cathryn Edwards, and Maurício L. Barreto.

Publication venues commonly hosting their work include Nature Africa, Nature, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, and QJM.

Best Publications

  • Variations in the NRAMP1 gene and susceptibility to tuberculosis in West Africans.

    Richard Bellamy;Cyril Ruwende;Tumani Corrah;Keith P.W.J. McAdam

  • HIV-specific cytotoxic T-cells in HIV-exposed but uninfected Gambian women

    Sarah Rowland-Jones;Julian Sutton;Koya Ariyoshi;Tao Dong

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Tuberculosis and Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Africans and Variation in the Vitamin D Receptor Gene

    R. Bellamy;C. Ruwende;T. Corrah;K. P. W. J. McAdam

  • Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia: a retrospective analysis

    Serign J Ceesay;Climent Casals-Pascual;Jamie Erskine;Jamie Erskine;Samuel E Anya;Samuel E Anya

  • Newborns Develop a Th1-Type Immune Response to Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Vaccination

    Arnaud Marchant;Tessa Goetghebuer;Martin O. Ota;Ingrid Wolfe

  • Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2.

    Thorsten Thye;Fredrik O. Vannberg;Sunny H. Wong;Ellis Owusu-Dabo

  • Genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis in Africans: A genome-wide scan

    Richard Bellamy;Nulda Beyers;Keith P. W. J. McAdam;Cyril Ruwende

  • Progression to Active Tuberculosis, but Not Transmission, Varies by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage in The Gambia

    Bouke C de Jong;Philip C Hill;Alex Aiken;Timothy Awine

  • Large-Scale Evaluation of Enzyme-Linked Immunospot Assay and Skin Test for Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection against a Gradient of Exposure in The Gambia

    Philip C. Hill;Roger H. Brookes;Annette Fox;Katherine Fielding

  • Body mass index at time of HIV diagnosis: a strong and independent predictor of survival.

    Marianne A. B. van der Sande;Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff;Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff;Akum A. Aveika;Saihou Sabally

  • Continued decline of malaria in The Gambia with implications for elimination.

    Serign J Ceesay;Climent Casals-Pascual;Climent Casals-Pascual;Davis C Nwakanma;Michael Walther

  • Incidence of tuberculosis and the predictive value of ELISPOT and Mantoux tests in Gambian case contacts.

    Philip C. Hill;Dolly J. Jackson-Sillah;Annette Fox;Roger H. Brookes

  • Acceptability and feasibility of a screen-and-treat programme for hepatitis B virus infection in The Gambia: the Prevention of Liver Fibrosis and Cancer in Africa (PROLIFICA) study

    Maud Lemoine;Maud Lemoine;Yusuke Shimakawa;Yusuke Shimakawa;Ramou Njie;Makie Taal

  • RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response

    Adam Penn-Nicholson;Stanley Kimbung Mbandi;Ethan Thompson;Simon C Mendelsohn

  • Tuberculosis Contacts but Not Patients Have Higher Gamma Interferon Responses to ESAT-6 than Do Community Controls in The Gambia

    Johan Vekemans;Johan Vekemans;Christian Lienhardt;Christian Lienhardt;Jackson S. Sillah;Jeremy G. Wheeler

  • Comparison of Enzyme-Linked Immunospot Assay and Tuberculin Skin Test in Healthy Children Exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Philip C Hill;Roger H Brookes;Ifedayo M O Adetifa;Annette Fox

  • Bacteraemia in patients admitted to an urban hospital in West Africa

    Philip C Hill;Charles O Onyeama;Usman N A Ikumapayi;Ousman Secka

  • Antiretroviral therapy in Africa.

    Warren Stevens;Steve Kaye;Tumani Corrah

  • Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia : a retrospective analysis. Commentary

    Peter Byass;Serign J. Ceesay;Climent Casals-Pascual;Jamie Erskine

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Adegbola
Richard A. Adegbola Nigerian Institute of Medical Research
Hilton Whittle
Hilton Whittle London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Martin Antonio
Martin Antonio London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Brian Greenwood
Brian Greenwood London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keith P. W. J. McAdam
Keith P. W. J. McAdam London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sarah Rowland-Jones
Sarah Rowland-Jones University of Sheffield
Umberto D'Alessandro
Umberto D'Alessandro University of London
Shabbar Jaffar
Shabbar Jaffar University College London
David J. Conway
David J. Conway London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Douglas E. Berg
Douglas E. Berg Washington University in St. Louis

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