Dr Win Htike
Senior Program Manager (Health Security & Malaria) and PhD student
Working groups
Background
Win Htike is a PhD student at Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Australia and a Senior Program Manager at Burnet Institute Myanmar, responsible for the management of day-to-day operations of research projects in Myanmar and other countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). He is also a research assistant within the Malaria and Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Group at the Burnet Institute. Win Htike is involved in the design and implementation of several large-scale projects, including the evaluation of a mobile phone based application for malaria case reporting in Myanmar, evaluation of an optimal community-delivered malaria elimination model for the GMS, evaluation of personal protection packages for reducing residual malaria transmission in forest-going mobile and migrant populations in the GMS, and evaluation of reactive surveillance and response strategies in malaria elimination programmes in the GMS.
Qualifications
- 2013: Master of Public Health (MPH), BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 2010: MBBS, University of Medicine 2, Yangon, Myanmar
Appointments
- 2019-ongoing: Research Fellow, ACREME
- 2010-ongoing: Registered medical doctor in Myanmar
Positions
- 2022-ongoing: PhD student, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University
- 2022-ongoing: Senior Program Manager (Health Security & Malaria), Myanmar
- 2019-ongoing: Research Assistant, Malaria and Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
- 2021-2022: Program Manager (Malaria), Myanmar
- 2019-2020: Project Manager (Malaria), Myanmar
- 2014-2019: National Professional Officer, WHO Myanmar
- 2013-2014: Field Project Coordinator, WHO Myanmar
- 2011-2012: Health Services Officer, PSI Myanmar
- 2010-2022: Franchising Officer, PSI Myanmar
Awards
- 2022, Deakin University, PhD scholarship
- 2021, Burnet Institute, Crofts publication award for co-best public health publication (part of the team)
- 2020, ACREME Travel Award
- 2013, BRAC University Best Thesis Poster Award
Burnet publications
View 3 moreAnopheles salivary antibody biomarkers as surrogate outcomes measures to assess the effectiveness of topical repellent in Southeast Myanmar
Ellen Kearney et al
Strengthening the health systems at national level for malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion countries: a qualitative study
Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Win Htike et al
Reducing malaria transmission in forest-going mobile and migrant populations in Lao PDR and Cambodia: protocol for stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial
BMC Infectious Diseases
Win Htike et al