Alyssa Barry

Profile

Professor Alyssa Barry is Co-Director of the Centre for Innovation in Infectious Disease and Immunology Research (CIIDIR), Head of the Systems Epidemiology of Infection Unit at Deakin University, and Honourary Principal Research Fellow at Burnet Institute.  Alyssa received a PhD in Human Molecular Genetics at the University of Melbourne, completed postdoctoral training at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, University of Oxford and New York University School of Medicine, and has led research programs at Burnet Institute and Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Alyssa was a Howard Florey Postdoctoral Fellow of the Royal Society, UK, a Howard Florey Centenary Fellow of the NHMRC, Australia, a VESKI Innovation Fellow of the Victorian Government and was awarded the Georgina Sweet Prize for Women in Quantitative Biosciences. She has led or co-led grants funded by the NHMRC and Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security in Australia, NIH International Centres of Excellence in Malaria Research, USA, Wellcome Trust, UK and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Alyssa’s research program uses population genomics and serology to understand infectious disease, and has a focus on building genomic surveillance capacity for malaria control. She works with a large multidisciplinary network of collaborators including field researchers based in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Cambodia, Myanmar and Mali, and is a member of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN), the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN), and the Australian Centre for Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination (ACREME).

 

Team

  • Dr Charles Narh, Senior Research Fellow
  • Dr Jasmin Akter, Senior Research Fellow
  • Dr Kirsty McCann, Research Fellow
  • Dr Myo Naung, Research Fellow
  • Dr Zahra Razook, Research Assistant
  • Dulcie Lautu-Gumal, PhD Candidate
  • Paolo Bareng, PhD Candidate
  • Sachintha Wijegunasekara, PhD Candidate
  • Sonakshi Madan, PhD Candidate
  • Nigani Willie, PhD Candidate
  • Katelyn Stanhope, Research Assistant & PhD Candidate
  • Rasha Karaelias, Grad Cert Student
  • Rachael Yong, Honours Student

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