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.
Sauman joined IDDO in May 2019 as a WHO/TDR Clinical Research Fellow and is working on visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and scrub typhus. His research interests include pharmaceutical markets, alternative models of drug development and access to medicine.
Sauman holds an engineering degree in biotechnology, and two master’s degrees; one in public health and the second in economic policy. He has recently finished his PhD in economics, which focused on the access to essential medicines in Africa by analysing the market entry and operation strategies of Indian pharmaceutical firms.
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).
Sam Strudwick joined IDDO in May 2017. As a Data Engineer, she is responsible for the development and testing of our data standards and processes. She also works on the management and transformation of the diverse data sets that are submitted to WWARN/IDDO and ensures the completeness and accuracy of the data in the WWARN/IDDO data repository.
Prior to joining IDDO, Sam worked as a Data Manager on stage four clinical trial data at the Melanoma Institute Australia. She has also worked as Bio-analytical Chemist developing qualitative analysis methods for novel anti-cancer drugs, and as Patent Administrator managing medical device patents in Sydney, Australia. She has a BSc (Hons) in Forensic Chemistry from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Diploma in Law from the Legal Profession Admission Board, New South Wales, Australia.
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.
Ranitha Vongpromek is the Liaison Scientist in the IDDO Asia Regional Centre. In October 2014, she joined the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN), now part of the IDDO platform,. Her first roles included contributing to the 'Technical field evaluation of a prototype device for automated malaria microscopy' project and the implementation of LIMS. Ranitha completed an MSc in Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She is now a PhD candidate at Erasmus University in the Netherlands and is expected to obtain her doctoral degree in 2015. She has strong experiences in molecular laboratory techniques and in clinical data management and analysis.