Southida holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy, with a thesis on developing an extemporaneous oral suspension formulation using Prednisolone as a model drug. Also, she completed an exchange program at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore, focusing public health. In the meantime, she interned with the United Nations Population Fund in Sexual and Reproductive Health unit, supporting the development of Midwifery program Strategy. 

In her previous role at Strengthening health emergencies preparedness and enhancing response to disease outbreaks in Lao PDR project, she contributed to laboratory Standard Operating Procedures and sequencing protocols, supported surveillance data management, coordinated nationwide vaccine-preventable disease sero-prevalence survey.

Kongchack is a pharmacist with Master’s degree from University of Paris-Descartes, France, focussed on pharmaceutical product quality. He is a Quality, Safety and Efficacy evaluator at the Food and Drug Department, at the Ministry of Health, Lao PDR. He works to ensure that all medicines imported into Laos meet required standards before they reach the public.

Since July 2024, Kongchack has also been involved in the Medicine Quality Research Group’s DAFODIL project on portable screening devices, evaluating scientific publications against defined criteria for inclusion in the dashboard.

I am a statistician with a PhD from Ghent University and hold a Master’s degree in Biostatistics from Hasselt University, both in Belgium. Over the past years, my research has focused on malaria and neglected tropical diseases, with an emphasis on the design and analysis of clinical and epidemiological studies. My work has also contributed to the development of the target product profiles for new diagnostics, informing the World Health Organization policy for strongyloidiasis control programs. I have extensive experience in clinical and epidemiological data management, statistical modelling and inference for infectious diseases, microsimulation, and the development of sampling framework to support evidence-based control strategies regarding survey design, particularly for soil-transmitted helminths. 

I am joining IDDO as a Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist, with research focusing on malaria chemoprevention and analysis of epidemiological and clinical data to support evidence-based prevention strategies.

Denise Patricia Mawili Mboumba is Full Professor in Parasitology at the Université des Sciences de la Santé in Gabon. For over 15 years, she has conducted her research activities in the Department of Parasitology-Mycology within the Faculty of Medicine, focusing on parasitic diseases endemic to Gabon, notably Malaria, Filariasis and Intestinal Parasitic infections.  

She earned her PhD at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, in Germany. Currently, Prof. Denise serves as the head of the Research Unit on Infectious Agents and their Pathology, and Director of the Institute of Medical Biology at the Université des Sciences de la Santé in Gabon.

Dr Eliangiringa Kaale is an AfOx fellow working with the IDDO Medicine Quality group. He is a Professor of Medicines Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania. With more than 23 years of experience, he has worked extensively on strengthening medicines regulatory systems across Africa and beyond, including in Tanzania, Rwanda, Botswana, Zambia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan.

His research focuses on medicine quality assurance and regulatory strengthening, with notable contributions to child-friendly HIV formulations, generic medicines, and digital tools to support quality assessment in remote areas. He has also played a leading role in building laboratory capacity, developing quality management systems, and promoting regional and continental collaboration in regulatory science.

He serves on global expert panels with the WHO and the USP, and chairs Tanzania’s committees on medicines registration and pharmaceutical standards. In recognition of his work, he received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2012 and has published more than 100 scientific papers.

Dr Kaale leads the TMDA–MUHAS Regional Centre of Regulatory Excellence, coordinates a continental external quality assurance programme for medicine testing laboratories, and is currently the coordinator of a large project on Strengthening Healthcare Supply Chain Management and Education in Tanzania, aimed at improving access to quality health commodities.

Mary joined IDDO in January 2025 as a Data Scientist to perform large-scale individual patient data meta-analyses, methods development, and statistical modelling to optimise the treatment of infectious disease. Her research will focus on improving the diagnosis and triage of patients with suspected severe malaria.

In February 2025, Mary defended her PhD thesis, titled 'Differentially Private Methods for Releasing Aggregated Multi-Dimensional Messages'. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Warwick. 

Dhruv is a medical doctor from Zambia with a keen interest in the epidemiology of infectious diseases. At IDDO, Dhruv’s DPhil research focuses on Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention, supervised by Prof. Philippe Guérin, Dr. James Watson and Dr. Prabin Dahal. 

Previously, Dhruv completed the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology in Oxford. He is supported by the Rhodes Scholarship. He aims to pursue specialty clinical training after completing his doctoral research in Oxford. 

Lucy joined IDDO in November 2024 to work on geospatial models of anti-malarial drug resistance. Lucy has recently submitted her PhD thesis, titled “Informing public health decisions with geospatial models of vector-borne disease”. During her PhD, she developed geospatial models of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Southeast Asia and Japanese encephalitis virus in Australia. She also worked on frameworks for model-informed decision-making for disease surveillance site selection. 

Before commencing her PhD, she obtained a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computational Biology, in 2018 and a Master of Computational Biology in 2020 from the University of Melbourne.

Riley joined IDDO in September 2024. As a Data Manager, they work on the management and transformation of diverse data sets that are submitted to IDDO, as well as ensuring the completeness and accuracy of data in the IDDO data repository. 

Prior to joining IDDO, they worked as a Data Wrangler for the Oxford-Novartis collaboration where they handled big data from IL-17A inhibitor clinical trials.

Riley holds a MBiol Microbiology/Biotechnology from the University of York and a MSc Data Science from Loughborough University.

Mr Thitthiphone Olinh is a graduate Bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutical Care from the University of Health Sciences in Laos. He co-founded Precious Plastic Vientiane, an initiative addressing plastic waste in Lao communities, promoting recycling and sustainable environmental practices. Additionally, Mr Thitthiphone conducted research on the knowledge and behavior of self-care among people who has Long COVID-19 in Vientiane Capital, further highlighting his commitment to advancing both health and environmental solutions in Laos. He joined the Medicine Quality Research group in April 2024 as a research assistant, based in Vientiane in the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust-Research Unit (LOMWRU).