Dr Arjun Chandna
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Arjun Chandna
MBBS MRCP BA MSc DPhil AFHEA
Research Physician
- Academic Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
- Honorary Visiting Research Fellow
PREDICTION OF DISEASE SEVERITY
Arjun is a Clinical Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit (COMRU). He has worked with the MORU Tropical Health Network since 2018. He is enthusiastic about using research to develop capacity for clinical infection services in settings where it is lacking.
Arjun's research focuses on the syndromic management of febrile illness, and specifically around the early recognition of children at risk of progression to sepsis. He completed his DPhil, supported by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Fellowship, between 2019-2023, for which he was awarded runner up in the NDM Overall Prize.
The overarching theme of his research is to develop and evaluate pragmatic, context-appropriate, prognostic tools that can help healthcare providers better identify patients at risk of poor outcomes and guide resource stewardship. Work is conducted in collaboration with Angkor Hospital for Children, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.
Arjun is a member of the team leading the South and Southeast Asian Community-based Trials Network project, part of the Wellcome Trust’s ‘Innovation in LMICs’ Flagship.
Recent publications
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Understanding the primary healthcare context in rural South and Southeast Asia: a village profiling study
Journal article
Chew R. et al, (2025), International Health
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Evaluation of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19 (COPCOV): A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
Journal article
Schilling WHK. et al, (2024), PLOS Medicine, 21, e1004428 - e1004428
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Understanding the primary healthcare context in rural South and Southeast Asia: a village profiling study
Preprint
Chew R. et al, (2024)
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Prospects for the development of community-based care in remote rural areas: a stakeholder analysis in Laos.
Journal article
Liverani M. et al, (2024), BMC health services research, 24
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The feasibility of novel point-of-care diagnostics for febrile illnesses at health centres in Southeast Asia: a mixed-methods study
Journal article
Adella FJ. et al, (2023), Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 117, 788 - 796