Faculty

Indi Trehan

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Pediatrics - Emergency Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Global Health


Education

BS University of California (Berkeley),

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Bio

My major academic interests are in the development of a better understanding of the pathophysiology underlying chronic and acute childhood malnutrition, improving the diagnosis and treatment of malnourished children, and improvements in the diagnosis and management of tropical infectious diseases. The majority of my research experience in these domains has come in the conduct of large clinical trials in rural Malawi as well as in smaller hospital-based cohort studies to complement my clinical experience caring for children and adults in austere settings around the world. I serve as an advisor and consultant to UNICEF, Action Against Hunger, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Alliance for International Medical Action, and Friends Without a Border.

My clinical work abroad has spanned numerous countries and settings, including emergency care in Haiti, directing an Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone, and primary care in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, but I am most passionate about training of local health care providers in evidence-based cost-effective care that maximizes survival and human potential. I took an academic sabbatical to manage clinical operations in rural Liberia for Partners in Health and then as the Medical Director and Executive Director of Lao Friends Hospital for Children in 2017-2019, before moving to Seattle in January 2020.

Research Interests

Child and Adolescent Health (incl. Pediatrics)
Child Mortality
Clinical Mentoring
Community Health Workers
COVID-19
Diarrheal Diseases
Ebola
Education and Training
Emergency Medicine
Epidemiology
Health Systems Strengthening and Human Resources Development
Infectious Diseases
Neglected Diseases, Tropical Medicine (incl. Parasites)
Nutrition, Clean Water, and Food Security
Research
Trop. Med (incl. Parasites)

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Association of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Animal Ownership With Relapse to Acute Malnutrition Among Children Aged 6-59 Months in Mali, South Sudan and Somalia: A Multi-Site Prospective Cohort Study.
(2025 Sep 25)
Matern Child Nutr
D'Mello-Guyett L, King S, Chabi SM, Mohamud FA, Lamaka NG, Agong J, Mohamed M, Koné K, Gallandat K, Gose M, Omar MS, Bunkembo M, Trehan I, Marshak A, Ayoub K, Olad AH, Aliou B, Stobaugh HC, Cumming O

Infants and children 6-59 months of age with moderate wasting: evidence gaps identified during WHO guideline development.
(2025 Aug 13)
BMJ Glob Health 10(Suppl 5):
Trehan I, Bandsma RHJ, Borg B, Castro MC, Golden K, Thompson DS, McCaul M, Naude CE, Bendabenda J, de Polnay K, Weise Prinzo Z, Daniel AI

Infants and children 6-59 months of age with severe wasting and/or nutritional oedema: evidence gaps identified during WHO guideline development.
(2025 Aug 13)
BMJ Glob Health 10(Suppl 5):
Thompson DS, Kumar P, Alsadeeq A, Khalid R, Deconinck H, Berkley JA, Bandsma RHJ, Dent N, Trehan I, Kerac M, Naude CE, Daniel AI

Aberrant One-Carbon Metabolism and Ancestral Genetics Underlie Edematous Severe Acute Malnutrition.
(2025 Jun 29)
Res Sq
Hanchard N, Lie N, Han Y, Li Q, Jajoo A, Redmond J, Haldipur A, Zewdu S, Banfield E, Swaminathan S, Howell S, Brown O, Sadat R, Hall N, Schulze K, May T, Reid M, Manary M, Trehan I, Mbiyavanga M, Akurugu W, McKenzie C, Sengupta D, Atkinson E, Choudhury A, Marshall K, Taylor-Bryan C

The Modified Dosages for Acute Malnutrition (MODAM) study: protocol for three integrated randomized controlled trials of novel approaches for the management of childhood wasting in Ethiopia.
(2025 Apr 8)
BMC Nutr 11(1): 71
Trehan I, Beyene Y, Darsene H, Adams BS, Wrabel M, Gizaw G, Legese LA, Cichon B, Chitekwe S, Shellemew MW, Tessema M, Stobaugh HC

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