Kevin Marsh

Biography

Kevin Marsh is a malariologist and global health researcher who has spent over 30 years living and working in Africa. In 1989 established with colleagues a series of research projects on at Kilifi on the Kenyan coast with a long term aim of developing the capacity for high quality multidisciplinary research. The KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme has subsequently developed into an international programme with around 800 staff working across a number of countries in east Africa of which he was director until August 2014.
From 2014, he led the development of the concept for a major new platform, the Alliance for the Acceleration of Science in Africa which in 2022 transitioned to a free standing Pan African Organisation, The Science for Africa Foundation (SFA), of which he is a founding director. He was chair of the WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee from 2012-2019 and is a member of many international advisory committees relating to malaria and to global health research.