- Research Assistant Professor, Global Health
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Dr. Kirk Tickell is an epidemiologist focused on optimizing the management of children with wasting. He completed medical training at Imperial College London, and practiced pediatrics and internal medicine in the United Kingdom, Tanzania and South Africa before moving to the University of Washington (UW) to complete a PhD. Over the last decade he has worked with colleagues at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the UW to build an increasingly equitable research platform for conducting clinic and community-based child health research. Together, this partnership has completed multiple high impact projects which have directly informed WHO policy and the practices of multinational non-governmental organizations. Dr. Tickell is currently the principal investigator of research studies funded by NIH, The Gates Foundation, The Thrasher Research Foundation, and the WHO. He is a technical advisor on child health and nutrition to Sukarya (Delhi, India) and is an observer on the WHO’s technical advisory group for the management of childhood undernutrition.
- PhD (UW)
- MPH (UW)
- MBBS (Imperial College London)
- Child and Adolescent Health (incl. Pediatrics)
- Child Mortality
- Diarrheal Diseases
- Nutrition
Tsegaye AT, Pavlinac PB, Walson JL, et al [Tickell KD Senior author]. The Diagnosis and Management of Dehydration in Children with Wasting or Nutritional Edema: A Systematic Review. PLOS Global Public Health October Nov 3;3(11):e0002520. (2023)
Tickell KD, Achieng C, Masheti M, et al. Family MUAC supported by a two-way SMS platform for identifying children with wasting: the Mama Aweza randomised controlled trial. Lancet Discovery’s eClinicalMedicine Volume 64 (Oct 2023) 102218
Tickell KD, Denno DM, Saleem A, et al. Plasma proteomic signatures of enteric permeability among hospitalized and community children under two years of age in Kenya and Pakistan. iScience Jul 2023 11;26(8):107294
The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network (CHAIN) Investigators (Corresponding author: Tickell KD). Characterising paediatric mortality during and after acute illness in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: a secondary analysis of the CHAIN cohort using a machine learning approach. Lancet Discovery’s eClinicalMedicine 2023:57, 101838.
Tickell KD, Sharmin R, Deichsel EL, et al. The effect of acute malnutrition on enteric pathogens, moderate-to-severe diarrhoea, and associated mortality in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study cohort: a post-hoc analysis. Lancet Glob Health 2020 Feb; 8(2):e215-e224.
Tickell KD, Atlas HA, Walson JL. Environmental enteric dysfunction: A review of potential mechanisms, consequences and management strategies. BMC Medicine 2019 17, 181.
Tickell KD, Brander RL, Atlas HE, et al. Identification and management of Shigella infection in children with diarrhoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Global Health 2017; 5: e1235-e1248; PMC5695759.
Tickell KD, Denno DM. Inpatient Management of Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition: a Review of WHO Guidelines. Bull World Health Organ. 2016 Sep 1; 94(9): 642-651.