Sean joined IDDO as a Data Manager in October 2021. He works to transform and curate data sets submitted to IDDO and to preserve the completeness and accuracy of the data stored within the IDDO repository. 

Prior to joining IDDO he worked at Oxford University’s Big Data Institute as a Data Analyst for the Global Resistance to Antimicrobials (GRAM) project.

Sean holds a DPhil in Zoology from Oxford University for which he created optimisation models for the management of insecticide resistance in crop feeding insects.

Cintia joined IDDO in 2021 to work with the Chagas Platform as a Scientific Advisor.

Cintia is a paediatrician and clinical pharmacology specialty doctor fully trained in Argentina. She is currently doing her Dphil in Clinical Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) as a part of CHARM: Chagas Pharmacometric Platform looking for pharmacometric determinants of treatment efficacy.

Emily is a physician practising in Northwest London and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. She completed her medical degree at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and studied Global Health as a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard University.

Emily worked for a year as an International Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the Menzies School of Health Research under the supervision of Professor Ric Price and Dr Rob Commons, and is currently leading the WWARN P. vivax Fever Study Group. This project aims to investigate the relationship between fever and P. vivax parasitaemia and how this varies with age and geographical location.

Jennie joined IDDO in May 2021. As a Data Manager, she manages and transforms diverse clinical and epidemiological data sets that are submitted to IDDO.

She has a Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she expanded her knowledge and interest in nutrition and infectious diseases such as Malaria.

Kerlijn Van Assche joined the Medicine Quality Research Group as a research pharmacist in 2020. Initially she was trained as a hospital pharmacist and later obtained a master's in International Health in Charité's Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health in Germany.

Previously, she was involved in research with the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) on data of QUAMED, a North-South Network that promotes universal access to quality-ensured medicines.

Before joining IDDO's Medicine Quality Research Group, Kerlijn worked as a quality assurance pharmacist with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ensuring the use of quality medicines and medical devices in their projects across the world.

Julia works as the Programme Manager for the Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiases research theme, coordinating the development of the theme.

Julia has a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, with her final year specialism being genetics. Julia went on to complete a PhD at Imperial College London in environmental influences on fungal plant disease, investigating the association between climate and a major pathogen of crops, using laboratory and statistical techniques. She has long-standing interests in fundamental biology, underappreciated global challenges, and the interface between the environment and human activity. During the PhD she cultivated an interest in statistics, data management, and systematic reviews; and has been applying this interest to neglected diseases such as the soil-transmitted helminthiases and Chagas’ disease (American trypanosomiasis).

Prabin joined the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN) – the prototypic model to IDDO – as a statistician in September 2011. His work with WWARN included assessment of the relationship between weight-adjusted dose and parasitological outcomes for artemisinin combination therapies.

His doctoral thesis (2015–2018, Linacre College) explored different statistical approaches for handling parasitic recurrences when quantifying antimalarial blood stage efficacy in P. falciparum.

In his current role, Prabin's main focus is the quantification of risk of severe and serious adverse events following antileishmanial therapies. His interest lies in exploring methodological issues in design and analysis of antileishmanial clinical trials.

Research Theme: VL, Malaria, Non-Malarial Febrile Illness

Makoto is an infectious disease physician and a clinical epidemiologist. Since joining WWARN/IDDO in 2015, he has worked on malaria in pregnancy, supporting the 2022 revision of the WHO malaria treatment guidelines to recommend artemether-lumefantrine for women in their first trimester.

His research interests extend broadly to the epidemiology of clinical infectious diseases, including nosocomial bacterial infections and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Currently, his research focuses on evidence synthesis related to AMR, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, to support evidence-based actions against AMR where data is limited.

He completed his DPhil at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford (2015-2019, Clarendon Scholar, NDM Graduate Prize 2019). He earned an MD from the University of Tokyo, as well as an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health and an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a certified epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist in Japan and a fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. He is a Wolfson College Research Fellow in Sciences.

Thanawat Assawariyathipat is the Senior Microscopist based at the IDDO Asia Regional Centre. He joined the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN), now part of the IDDO platform, in September 2014. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Thanawat works with setting up a malaria microscopy reference laboratory and with quality assurance activities. Thanawat has extensive experience in microscopy; he is a WHO-certified Malaria Microscopist Expert and he previously worked for three years as a Research Medical Technologist for the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) in Thailand.  Thanawat completed a BSc in Science at the Mahidol University in Thailand. 

Cholrawee Promnarate is a Laboratory Technologist at the IDDO Asia Regional Centre. She joined the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN), now part of the IDDO platform, in June 2013.  As part of her role, Cholrawee works to support international collaborative projects such as the IMPROV study, TME study, TRAC study, and malaria projects in Bangladesh. Her key responsibilities are organising sample shipment, developing documents, packaging and shipping of specimens, and supporting study sites on laboratory equipment and laboratory consumables. Cholrawee has a MSc. Medical Sciences, Major Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Before Joining WWARN, Cholrawee worked as a laboratory technician for the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science.