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Malaria and Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Group

Head: Professor Freya Fowkes

Understanding malaria dynamics in populations is key to implementing effective public health control measures.

To evaluate the impact of population immunity of the efficacy of malaria interventions and evaluating the impact of intervention programs on host immunity and patterns of disease.

  • To develop sero-markers for population studies
  • To define malaria exposure and transmission intensity 
  • To understand the dynamics of naturally acquired immunity in children and pregnant women and how they relate To patterns of disease.

Our group centres on malaria immuno-epidemiology and focuses on developing and utilising immunological biomarkers for vaccine trials, disease surveillance and evaluating the impact of interventions for malaria.

We participate in numerous population studies in malaria-endemic countries, such as Kenya, Papua New Guinea and Thailand, through collaborations with national research institutes based in those countries.

Vaccine trials
Disease surveillance
Evaluation

of the impact of interventions for malaria.

Freya Fowkes

Professor Freya J.I. Fowkes

An NHMRC Fellow, Professor Freya Fowkes is Deputy Program Director, Maternal and Child Health, and Head, Malaria and Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Burnet Institute.

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Projects

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Developing a novel assessment tool to evaluate health system’s readiness of the countries in Greater Mekong Subregion to enter malaria elimination phase
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HMHB: The impact of nutrition and infections on health for pregnant women and young children
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Immunity to malaria and infectious diseases during pregnancy
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Immunity, drug efficacy and spread of antimalarial drug resistance
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Rebound 510X288
Impact of declining transmission on immunity and risk of malaria rebound
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Integrating molecular and serological detection of malaria into national surveillance systems
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Optimising malaria surveillance and response strategies to achieve elimination
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Preventing malaria transmission in high-risk populations
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Serosurveillance 510X288
Serological surveillance to identify mosquito exposure and malaria transmission
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