Paediatrician | Principal Investigator | Global Child Health Researcher
Severe malnutrition, acute childhood illness, CHAIN, MITS and early risk prediction.
Dr Wieger Voskuijl is a paediatrician, Principal Investigator and global child-health researcher specialising in the relationship between acute childhood illness, undernutrition and mortality. He works at Amsterdam University Medical Center as a medical specialist in General Paediatrics with Global Health research affiliations and is a Senior Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development. His long-standing Malawi collaboration includes Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and leadership as Malawi site Principal Investigator for CHAIN.
Dr Voskuijl has worked closely with clinicians and researchers at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and the former University of Malawi College of Medicine. As Malawi site Principal Investigator for CHAIN, he has helped investigate mortality, recovery and post-discharge vulnerability among acutely ill and undernourished children.
His research examines intestinal dysfunction, pancreatic function, inflammation, metabolism, infection, nutritional rehabilitation and why children with apparently similar illness and nutritional status experience different outcomes.
He has contributed to trials and observational studies involving pancreatic insufficiency, transition feeding, pancreatic enzyme replacement, inflammation and risk prediction among hospitalised children with severe acute malnutrition.
His work develops practical clinical and biological approaches to identify deteriorating children early in resource-limited hospitals, before severe complications develop.
He has been closely involved in minimally invasive tissue sampling research in Malawi, helping improve cause-of-death evidence through less-invasive post-mortem tissue and fluid sampling.
More recent work integrates metabolic, microbial and molecular information to identify mechanisms associated with acute illness and mortality while maintaining a strong focus on priorities relevant to Malawi and other low-resource settings.
Partner with MNRG to turn important nutrition questions into meaningful evidence and better outcomes.