Working groups
Professor Freya Fowkes is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Head of the Malaria and Infectious Disease Epidemiology group at Burnet Institute. She is also the Director of the Centre of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Melbourne.
Freya completed her doctorate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and post-doctoral training at New York University and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Her research program spans basic science, epidemiology, statistics and mathematical modelling and focuses on malaria in high-risk populations and antimalarial drug resistance.
Freya is involved in several multinational studies of malaria elimination and works with international partners, including WHO and the National Malaria Control Programs, to translate findings into relevant malaria control, elimination and surveillance strategies.
Trends in Parasitology
Ellen Kearney, Ashleigh S Heng-Chin, Katherine O’Flaherty, Freya J. I. Fowkes, Ellen Kearney, Ashleigh S Heng-Chin, Katherine O’Flaherty, Freya J. I. Fowkes
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
Win Han Oo, Freya J. I. Fowkes
Trends in Parasitology
Ellen Kearney, Ashleigh S Heng-Chin, Katherine O’Flaherty, Freya J. I. Fowkes, Ellen Kearney, Ashleigh S Heng-Chin, Katherine O’Flaherty, Freya J. I. Fowkes
This project aims to deploy and evaluate new rapid diagnostic testing strategies for measles in Ethiopia.
We work to increase access to new diagnostic tools for malaria, reduce health inequities and accelerate malaria elimination.
We address fundamental questions on the modulation of antibody acquisition and maintenance during pregnancy.
This project compares the performance of novel high sensitivity Plasmodium falciparum rapid diagnostic tests with conventional tests.
We conducted a mobile phone-based health promotion with women who are sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya, to reduce unintended pregnancy.