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Doctor Win Htike

Senior Program Manager (Health Security & Malaria) and PhD student
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