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Robert Snow, head of the Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group (MPHEG) at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Nairobi, Kenya, works on the consequences of malaria for global health, international development and national health policy. Snow has been conducting malaria research and control in Africa for more than 20 years, and says that the depth and breadth of his current programme results from his long-term commitment to working in Africa, with African institutions and researchers. He plans to stay in Kenya for the next decade to help make tropical public health a discipline driven from the tropics.

Some of Snow's more recent work with US- and UK-based health-systems providers and scientists examines malaria infection rates in African children (see page 492).

9 people work in Snow's group at MPHEG, including three postdocs, four junior scientists starting their doctoral programmes, and two senior scientists from overseas institutions.

2 submissions to Nature during 2005 have come from scientists based in Kenya

6 Nature papers published in 2005 have been on malaria epidemiology and control.

1,416 is the average number of visitors based in Kenya who visit http://www.nature.com each month.