Areas of interest
Senior Clinical Research Fellow
Background
Annemieke van Eijk is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist who trained at the Free University of Amsterdam (MD). She worked as a clinical doctor in England, the Netherlands and Uganda. She joined the CDC/KEMRI research unit in western Kenya in 1997, where she worked on studies involving malaria in pregnancy and HIV-1 infection. She obtained an MSc (London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) and PhD (University of Amsterdam) in epidemiology. She worked as a consultant for several organizations and the WHO. She joined the malaria epidemiology unit of the School in 2009 to support the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium and to assist with literature reviews and the maintenance of the malaria in pregnancy library. She is based in Nairobi.
Research
Research interests focus on malaria in pregnancy and reproductive health.