Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Malaria, infectious diseases, tropical medicine, global health, parasitic diseases
My research interests focus on translational studies of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. I focus upon several aspects of malaria: early host immune responses to infection, human genetics, and treatment. Current projects include: 1) understanding host factors affecting response to artemisinin-based antimalarial therapies using a combination of individual and population-based pharmacologic approaches to inform treatment guidelines; 2) characterizing the impact of host genetic and transcriptional variability in early immune responses to malaria; and 3) understanding the impact of the HIV epidemic on the treatment of malaria in co-endemic regions.