School of Infection & Immunity

Professor Paul Kelly

• Professor of Tropical Gastroenterology (Queen Mary Univeristy of London)
• Location: Room 381, Adam Smith Building

Title: What is environmental enteropathy, and why does it matter?

Bio: 

Professor Paul Kelly studied medicine in Oxford and London and subsequently worked in London and in Zambia, both as a general physician and as a gastroenterologist. He started a research program in Lusaka in 1993 which has evolved into the Tropical Gastroenterology and Nutrition group, in collaboration with the University of Zambia. TROPGAN now has five senior doctors, six PhD students, and 60 research staff. He has published over 300 papers on African gastroenterology. Research interests include child and adult malnutrition and related enteropathy, cryptosporidiosis, schistosomiasis, hepatitis, and upper GI cancers, and interacting with all of these, the microbiome.

 

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First published: 7 August 2026