
Paul Newton, BSc, BM BCh, D.Phil, MRCP, DTM&H
Adjunct Professor, Global Health - Boston University School of Public Health
Biography
Paul Newton is an infectious disease doctor and Director of the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane, Laos, within the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Health Network, core funded by the Wellcome Trust. He is also head of the Medicine Quality Scientific Group of the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory. After a DPhil in field zoology research he read clinical medicine and qualified in 1989 and MRCP in 1992 and DTM&H in 1996. He was lecturer to Professor Sir Nicholas White 1996-2001 in Mahidol University, Bangkok, and moved to Laos in 2002.
His main research interests are on the epidemiology and detection of substandard and falsified medical products and on the diversify of fevers, especially rickettsial pathogens, in rural Asia and their epidemiology and how they can be diagnosed and managed.
Other Positions
- Professor of Tropical Medicine & Honorary Consultant Physician, Churchill Hospital - University of Oxford
- Honorary Professor of Tropical Medicine - National University of Laos
- Honorary Professor, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Education
- Oxford University, DPhil Field of Study: Zoology
- University of East Anglia, BSc Field of Study: Biology
- Oxford University, BMBCh Field of Study: Medicine-Surgery
Publications
- Published on 9/12/2024
Chansamouth V, Douangnouvong A, Thammavongsa P, Sombandith X, Keomany S, Rattana S, Newton PN, Day NP, Turner P, Mayxay M, van Doorn HR, Ashley EA. Understanding hospital antimicrobial prescribing decisions and determinants of uptake of new local antimicrobial prescribing guidelines in Laos. Wellcome Open Res. 2024; 9:183. PMID: 39301442.
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- Published on 8/28/2024
Clarke R, Bharucha T, Arman BY, Gangadharan B, Gomez Fernandez L, Mosca S, Lin Q, Van Assche K, Stokes R, Dunachie S, Deats M, Merchant HA, Caillet C, Walsby-Tickle J, Probert F, Matousek P, Newton PN, Zitzmann N, McCullagh JSO. Using matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation mass spectrometry combined with machine learning for vaccine authenticity screening. NPJ Vaccines. 2024 Aug 28; 9(1):155. PMID: 39198486.
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- Published on 8/20/2024
Ip DKM, Ng YY, Tam YH, Thomas NV, Dahal P, Stepniewska K, Newton PN, Guérin PJ, Hopkins H. Non-malarial febrile illness: a systematic review of published aetiological studies and case reports from China, 1980-2015. BMC Infect Dis. 2024 Aug 20; 24(1):843. PMID: 39164620.
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- Published on 2/18/2024
Newton PN, Chesson LA, Mayxay M, Dondorp A, Tabernero P, Howa JD, Cerling TE. Forensic investigation of falsified antimalarials using isotope ratio mass spectrometry: a pilot investigation. Sci Rep. 2024 Feb 18; 14(1):3995. PMID: 38369604.
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- Published on 2/14/2024
Bharucha T, Gangadharan B, Clarke R, Fernandez LG, Arman BY, Walsby-Tickle J, Deats M, Mosca S, Lin Q, Stokes R, Dunachie S, Merchant HA, Dubot-Pérès A, Caillet C, McCullagh J, Matousek P, Zitzmann N, Newton PN. Repurposing rapid diagnostic tests to detect falsified vaccines in supply chains. Vaccine. 2024 Mar 07; 42(7):1506-1511. PMID: 38355318.
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- Published on 2/7/2024
Valente M, Bramugy J, Keddie SH, Hopkins H, Bassat Q, Baerenbold O, Bradley J, Falconer J, Keogh RH, Newton PN, Picardeau M, Crump JA. Diagnosis of human leptospirosis: systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of the Leptospira microscopic agglutination test, PCR targeting Lfb1, and IgM ELISA to Leptospira fainei serovar Hurstbridge. BMC Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 07; 24(1):168. PMID: 38326762.
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- Published on 2/1/2024
Burtnick MN, Dance DAB, Vongsouvath M, Newton PN, Dittrich S, Sendouangphachanh A, Woods K, Davong V, Kenna DTD, Saiprom N, Sengyee S, Hantrakun V, Wuthiekanun V, Limmathurotsakul D, Chantratita N, Brett PJ. Identification of Burkholderia cepacia strains that express a Burkholderia pseudomallei-like capsular polysaccharide. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Mar 05; 12(3):e0332123. PMID: 38299821.
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- Published on 1/22/2024
Chansamouth V, Inlorkham P, Keohavong B, Bellingham K, van Doorn HR, Mayxay M, Newton PN, Turner P, Day NPJ, Ashley EA. Implementing the WHO AWaRe antibiotic book guidance in lower-resource settings: the case of the Lao PDR. JAC Antimicrob Resist. 2024 Feb; 6(1):dlae004. PMID: 38259905.
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- Published on 10/20/2023
Mosca S, Lin Q, Stokes R, Bharucha T, Gangadharan B, Clarke R, Fernandez LG, Deats M, Walsby-Tickle J, Arman BY, Chunekar SR, Patil KD, Gairola S, Van Assche K, Dunachie S, Merchant HA, Kuwana R, Maes A, McCullagh J, Caillet C, Zitzmann N, Newton PN, Matousek P. Innovative method for rapid detection of falsified COVID-19 vaccines through unopened vials using handheld Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS). Vaccine. 2023 Nov 13; 41(47):6960-6968. PMID: 37865599.
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- Published on 10/3/2023
Cavany S, Nanyonga S, Hauk C, Lim C, Tarning J, Sartorius B, Dolecek C, Caillet C, Newton PN, Cooper BS. The uncertain role of substandard and falsified medicines in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance. Nat Commun. 2023 Oct 03; 14(1):6153. PMID: 37788991.
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