Paul Newton, DPhil, MRCP
Adjunct Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Global Health

DPhil, Oxford University
BSc, University of East Anglia



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.

Professor of Tropical Medicine & Honorary Consultant Physician
University of Oxford
Churchill Hospital
Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health

Honorary Professor of Tropical Medicine
National University of Laos


Honorary Professor, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine


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  1. Roberts T, Douangnouvong A, Robinson MT, Phommasone K, Phaxayaseng S, Keoluangkhot V, Vongphayloth K, Adsamoud A, Rasphone O, Yang L, Phoumin P, Simmalavong M, Christensen P, Hughes T, Temmerath A, Inthavong A, Inthapanya P, Punyasith S, Phommachanh P, Theppangna W, Khounsy S, Vongphachanh S, Blacksell SD, Newton PN, Mayxay M, Ashley EA. Screening for visceral leishmaniasis in humans and animals in Laos. Trop Med Health. 2025 Aug 01; 53(1):101. PMID: 40751215; PMCID: PMC12315420; DOI: 10.1186/s41182-025-00782-w;
     
  2. Oo WT, Bowhay TR, Myat TO, Htike WW, Lwin KT, Blacksell SD, Tanganuchitcharnchai A, Mayxay M, Newton PN, Robinson MT, Ussher JE, Murdoch DR, Win HH, Crump JA. Estimating scrub typhus and murine typhus incidence among adolescents and adults in Yangon, Myanmar. Trop Med Int Health. 2025 Sep; 30(9):978-986. PMID: 40693720; PMCID: PMC12401641; DOI: 10.1111/tmi.70010;
     
  3. Bowhay TR, Myat TO, Oo WT, Mone HK, Sharples KJ, Robinson MT, Mayxay M, Newton PN, Blacksell SD, Tanganuchitcharnchai A, Ussher JE, Murdoch DR, Htike WW, Crump JA. Prevalence and risk factors for murine typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever group rickettsioses among adolescent and adult patients presenting to Yangon General Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar. Trop Med Int Health. 2025 Sep; 30(9):966-977. PMID: 40671672; PMCID: PMC12401629; DOI: 10.1111/tmi.70009;
     
  4. Nibber A, Wills B, Pettingill P, Fox H, Thuy TTN, Chau NVV, Waters P, Kneen R, Hacohen Y, Uy CE, Rattanavong S, Mayxay M, Dubot-Pérès A, Vongsouvath M, Davong V, Chansamouth V, Phommasone K, Lang B, Newton PN, Solomon T, Vincent A, Irani SR. Evolution and significance of neuronal surface autoantibodies after Japanese encephalitis. J Neuroimmunol. 2025 Sep 15; 406:578671. PMID: 40609371
     
  5. Banerjee S, Mosca S, Legge I, Gangadharan B, Walsby-Tickle J, Arman BY, Stokes R, Bharucha T, Deats M, Merchant HA, McCullagh J, Zitzmann N, Caillet C, Newton PN, Matousek P. Handheld Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy for rapid non-invasive detection of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol in medicinal syrups. J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2025 Nov 15; 265:117031. PMID: 40540818
     
  6. Dubot-Pérès A, Lee SJ, Dance DAB, Satzke C, Moore K, Pell CL, Ortika BD, Nation ML, Dunne EM, Vilivong K, Bounkhoun T, Phommachan S, Lim R, Lai J, Morpeth M, Mayxay M, de Lamballerie X, Newton PN, Russell FM. Pneumococcal density and respiratory co-detection in severe pediatric pneumonia in Laos. Sci Rep. 2025 May 21; 15(1):17708. PMID: 40399319; PMCID: PMC12095513; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-01659-y;
     
  7. Wasakul V, Verschuuren TD, Thuy-Nhien N, Booth E, Quang HH, Thang ND, Chindavongsa K, Sovannaroth S, Banouvong V, Sengsavath V, Mayxay M, Tuyen NTK, Phuong VNL, Duc Trung P, Gonçalves S, Chen S, Phalivong S, Xayvanghang S, Mahaphontrakoon S, Pearson RD, Newton PN, Maude RJ, Ashley EA, Ariani CV, Simpson VJ, Day NP, Dondorp AM, Miotto O. Genetic surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum populations following treatment policy revisions in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Nat Commun. 2025 May 20; 16(1):4689. PMID: 40394107; PMCID: PMC12092748; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59946-1;
     
  8. Perez-Mon C, Hauk C, Roncone A, Bontempo L, Kelly SD, Caillet C, Deats M, Ogden R, Newton PN. Hide and seek with falsified medicines: Current challenges and physico-chemical and biological approaches for tracing the origin of trafficked products. Forensic Sci Int. 2025 May; 370:112474. PMID: 40252581
     
  9. Arman BY, Clarke R, Bharucha T, Fernandez LG, Walsby-Tickle J, Deats M, Mosca S, Lin Q, Banerjee S, Chunekar SR, Patil KD, Gairola S, Dunachie S, Merchant HA, Stokes R, Kuwana R, Maes A, Charrier JP, Probert F, Caillet C, Matousek P, McCullagh J, Newton PN, Zitzmann N, Gangadharan B. Identifying falsified COVID-19 vaccines by analysing vaccine vial label and excipient profiles using MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry. NPJ Vaccines. 2025 Jan 30; 10(1):19. PMID: 39885196; PMCID: PMC11782545; DOI: 10.1038/s41541-024-01051-3;
     
  10. 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; PMCID: PMC11411237; DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20884.2;
     
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Bar chart showing 389 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 33 publications in 2015

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20039
20045
200511
200616
200718
200813
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201013
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201217
201313
201419
201533
201623
201716
201822
201926
202032
202126
202220
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1996 Oxford University Medical School: ‘Teacher of the month’ General Medicine
1990 British Council award to visit Department of Zoology, Jodhpur
1988 Sasakawa Fund & Royal Society awards
1985-1991 Royal Society Travel Grants for zoological fieldwork in India
1984-1988 British Diabetic Association: Hermon Whittaker Memorial Bursary
1984-1987 Foulkes Foundation: Fellowship to read medicine
1978 University of East Anglia: First Prize, Biology Finals
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