Praphai joined the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) Asia Regional Centre in 2019 as an External Quality Assurance Technologist and is based at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, in Bangkok, Thailand.

She operates the existing IDDO-WWARN EQA Programme for Pharmacology and Molecular Markers, and manages the Malaria Drug Reference Material Programme.

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.

Dick is responsible for system design and development for clinical data exchange and maintenance between the IDDO data repository and other partners, ensuring the data exchange in an accurate and effective manner and conforming to the FAIR principles.

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.

Konnie Bellingham joined the Medicine Quality Research Group as a research pharmacist in 2019.

She is Lao by origin but migrated to New Zealand as a refugee as a child.

Konnie trained and worked as a hospital pharmacist in New Zealand for 18 years. Her areas of interests are paediatric medicines, infectious disease, medication safety and evidence-based medicines.

She is currently working towards a dual master degree in public health and health management through the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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.

As a Data Manager at IDDO, Rupert is responsible for the management and transformation of diverse data sets for the organization. Rupert ensures the completeness and accuracy of the data in the IDDO repository, with a focus on malaria and Covid-19 research themes.

Rupert brings a diverse background to the role, having previously worked in the administration of clinical trials at the Ageing and Epidemiology Research Group and as a Sample Manager at the Forensic Toxicology Unit both at Imperial College London.

Prior to these roles, Rupert spent three years as a Quality Analyst in the pharmaceutical industry.

Rupert holds a degree in Biology with Psychology from Queen Mary University of London.

As a Data Manager Yurika’s main focus is on the management and transformation of the diverse data sets that are submitted to IDDO.

The data team transform, clean and analyse clinical, epidemiological, molecular and pharmacology data to ensure completeness and accuracy of data in the IDDO data repository.

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).