Faculty Member

Department

Research Interests

Ahmed Aly

Tropical Medicine

• Biology of malaria parasite mosquito stages and mammalian liver stages
  

Thomas Eisele

Global Health Systems and Development

• Epidemiology with focus on malaria and child survival
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Survey/sampling methodology
  

Joseph Keating

Global Health Systems and Development

• Vector-borne disease ecology
• Program evaluation
  

Donald Krogstad

Tropical Medicine

• Molecular and genetic basis of resistance to chloroquine and quinine
• Techniques for the characterization of individual clones of malaria parasites
• Development of methods to study pathogeneticity
  

Nirbhay Kumar

Tropical Medicine

• Immunobiology of malaria transmission
• Transmission blocking faccine
• Immune memory in malaria
  
• Recombination mechanisms in Plasmodium
• Helminth-Plasmodioum co-infections
• Animal models for human malaria vaccines
• Parasite-vector interactions
  

Kate Macintyre

Global Health Systems and Development

• Health policy
• Re-emerging infectious diseases
• Monitoring and evaluation
  

Juan Pizarro

Tropical Medicine

• To investigate the interactions between human and parasite proteins to understand the host-parasite relationship between Plasmodium falciparum and its human host.

Mark Wiser

Tropical Medicine

• Molecular and cellular biology of protozoan parasites and their interactions with host cells
• Host-parasite interactions
  

Joshua Yukich

Global Health Systems and Development

• Epidemiology and economics of vector-borne disease
• Malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa and the economics of targeted interventions