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).
Forhad is a Bangladeshi consultant in medicine with a deep passion for sepsis, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and conducting high-quality clinical trials in low-resource settings. He has been serving in the Bangladesh Civil Service since 2010, demonstrating a strong commitment to public health and clinical excellence. Forhad is a Commonwealth Scholar who was featured in the Yearbook 21 of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK. In recognition of his exceptional contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic, he received the prestigious Integrity Award 2021 from the Government of Bangladesh.
Forhad has co-authored the National Guidelines on Clinical Management of COVID-19 and the Standard Treatment Guidelines of Common Infections of Bangladesh, contributing significantly to national healthcare protocols. He also serves as a guest lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, where he shares his expertise with the next generation of healthcare professionals.
Currently, Forhad is conducting a systematic review to estimate the burden of AMR in Bangladesh in collaboration with Prof. Philippe Guerin at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO). He is also leading a randomized controlled trial to investigate the role of procalcitonin in reducing antibiotic therapy in adult sepsis patients under the supervision of Prof. Arjen Dondorp. Forhad’s work is driven by his dedication to improving healthcare standards and outcomes in resource-limited settings through rigorous research and clinical innovation.
Dr Aninda Nishat Moitry is a DPhil in Clinical Medicine student based at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory. She started her PhD in October 2023 under the supervision of Professor Philippe Guerin, and Drs. James Watson, Makoto Saito, and Stephanie Dellicour. Her doctoral research will investigate the safety of a range of antimalarial drugs used for treating acute malaria during pregnancy, with the goal to generate robust evidence to inform policy maker, regulators, clinicians, and pregnant women.
Dr Moitry is a medical doctor by training and completed her MSc in Epidemiology from Imperial College London with Chevening Scholarship. She also gained an MPH from BRAC University, Bangladesh. She became a Fellow member of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), United Kingdom in 2022.
Prior to starting her PhD, Dr Moitry was working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In addition to teaching Epidemiology and Public Health, she has worked on a number of research projects on maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and equity issues in health services utilisation in the last 7 years, and actively engaged in policy advocacy.
Dawit Getachew Assefa holds a Master of Science in Clinical Trials from Addis Ababa University and serves as a Clinical Trials Specialist and Lecturer at Dilla University, Ethiopia. He has also worked as a Professional Nurse at Dilla University Referral Hospital and Sekota District Health Center.
He has led a randomized trial on participant-centered adverse event surveillance following measles immunization in Ethiopia and contributed to multi-country TB prevention research with the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
In 2024, Dawit was awarded the WHO/TDR Postgraduate Research Fellowship at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), and WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), University of Oxford, where he led an epidemiological study on visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil using national surveillance data. He is also an Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) Visiting Fellow, leading a project on trachoma among Ethiopian children using advanced analytical and machine learning methods.
His research focuses on poverty-related and neglected tropical diseases, particularly visceral leishmaniasis, trachoma, malaria, and tuberculosis. He has extensive experience in clinical research, epidemiology, and evidence synthesis, including IPD meta-analyses and systematic reviews. Through his academic and research work, Dawit aspires to strengthen clinical research capacity in low-resource settings and generate evidence that informs equitable health policies in Africa and beyond.
Katarina Foss-Solbrekk is a Senior DPhil (PhD) candidate in law at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on improving access to generic/biosimilar medicines under European patent law. Outside her doctoral research, she maintains a key interest in how data protection law may be used to protect and enable greater sharing of data to facilitate medical research.
Katarina has published articles in leading IP/tech journals, presented her work in several forums at the University of Oxford and at the EPIP Conference, and contributed to the Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law. Her published research was also recently cited in a decision by the Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office and awarded the 2023 European Policy for Intellectual Property Young Scholar Award.
Dr. Noudy Sengxeu is a pharmacist with a skilled doctor specialising in Clinical Research, Technological Innovation, and Public Health. She holds a Ph.D. in public health from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Limoges. During her doctorate, she focused on determinants of access to essential antiepileptic drugs in Southeast Asia. Prior to that, she completed a Master's degree specialising in drug quality.
Noudy has research experience in conducting research in the field of public health in Asia and Affrica. Additionally, Noudy is skilled in epidemiology, statistics, project management, and quality assurance.
Furthermore, Noudy actively participated in the dissemination of research findings. She co-authored several research papers that were published in reputable scientific journals, contributing to the body of knowledge on medication quality in low-middle incomes countries.
Inthaphavanh Kitignavong is a medical doctor in Laos. She became a part of the Medicine Quality Research Group (MQRG) at LOMWRU in Vientiane, Laos, in 2020. Her role as a Research Assistant involves using the HealthMap curation tool to search and map reports of poor quality medicines. Before joining the MQRG, she worked in the field of reproductive health as a medical officer at Population Services International Laos (PSI Laos).
Alberto is a computer scientist and software engineer who spent the last decade working on various domains of computer science, from software engineering to machine learning, Despite the different angles and approaches used in his work, the constant has always been “health”. From an early experience with malaria data collection in Senegal to being the architect of digital health solutions, he has continuously nurtured a passion for public health.
In the past, he worked on the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) data platform to create a data-sharing environment [https://share.iddo.org/] for COVID-19 and NTDs.
He joined the Medicine Quality Research Group in 2022 and has started a DPhil to research the trading routes of falsified medicines. Network analysis will be used to map trade routes and geographical nodes, identifying where increased inspection and regulation may be most effective as well as to inform risk assessment, interventions, and optimisation of surveillance.
Alberto has a Master of Science in Computer Science, from the University of Geneva.
Ngan holds a Master of Pharmacy from University of Toulouse III, France under the Mekong Pharma program for pharmacists in Southeast Asia and also a research scientist in the field of medicine quality at Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU).
In 2019, Ngan joined LOMWRU as a master's trainee in pharmacology. From 2020 to present, she worked as a research scientist of the Medicine Quality Research Group. Ngan analysed data on the quality of cardiovascular medicine and anti-retroviral medicine and publish two research articles in BMJ global health.
In addition, she also participates in supporting ABACUS II project in Vietnam, Gram2 project and curation Vietnamese articles in HealthMap: global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualisation of Internet media reports.
Dhol Samuel Ayuen is a medical doctor from South Sudan. He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and a certificate in Global Health from Leiden University, in the Netherlands. He also holds a Master of Science in International Health and Tropical Medicine from the University of Oxford.
Before joining IDDO, Dhol was a medical doctor providing medical and surgical services in Kampala, Uganda and Juba, South Sudan. He mainly treated tropical infectious diseases like Malaria, HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and provided clinical services to women and children. He also provided surgical, obstetrics and gynaecological and paediatrics services to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
Dhol joined IDDO/WWARN in 2023 as an Evidence Synthesis Officer working on the Severe Malaria project, Molecular markers of antimalarial resistance surveyors and the WWARN Clinical Trials Publication Library.
He has since November 2023 been working as a Project Manager for malaria research projects. These projects include the WWARN living systematic reviews, WWARN Clinical Trials Publication Library and its surveyor and the Molecular surveyors ,Renal impairment in severe malaria ,Correlation between the K13 genotype and clinical phenotype ,Ivermectin pharmacokinetics in children and adults study groups among others.
He is passionate about research and evidence-based medicine and it is this passion that has driven him to garner more skills ,knowledge and experience through engaging in research that would provide evidence to inform health policies and translate policies into practice.