Judy Baariu
Supervisors
Prof. Charles Newton
Prof. Charles Newton
Charles Newton qualified from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, with postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Manchester and London, United Kingdom. As a lecturer at University of Oxford, he went to Kilifi Kenya in 1989, to help set up a unit to study severe malaria in African children. Thereafter he spent 2 years as a Post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, USA; studying mechanisms of brain damage in central nervous system infections. He completed his training in Paediatric Neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK. In 1998 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship at University College London, to return to Kilifi, to study CNS infections in children. He conducts research on CNS infections in children; epidemiological studies of epilepsy and neurological impairment; tetanus, jaundice and sepsis in neonates. He is particularly interested in behavioural comorbidity of neurological conditions in children. In 2011 he took up a professorship in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford to conduct studies of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Epilepsy in Africa and Autism in the United Kingdom and Lithuania
Baariu holds a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Moi University, Kenya where she graduated top of her class earning her an opportunity to study interdisplinary perspectives on chronic pain at the Linköping University, Sweden. Through the course she gained interest in aspects of disability and rehabilitation. Currently, she is part of the IDeAL programme as a Post Graduate Diploma fellow in Health research methods undertaking a research project on behavioral and emotional problems in children with neurological impairments in low and middle income countries.
Prior to becoming a PGD fellow, Judy interned at the Meru teaching and referral hospital where she gained clinical and administrative skills and also worked as an immunization coach with the Kenya Red Cross. She has also been involved in various community outreach programmmes and primary health care initiatives. Through her work she intends to bring to the fore the plight of children with neurological impairments as well as spearhead efforts to finding workable interventions that will not only improve their quality of life and that of their parents and guardians but also ease their integration into the community.
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