Professor Freya Fowkes is an NHMRC Fellow and Head of the Malaria and Infectious Disease Epidemiology group at the Burnet Institute, Melbourne. She completed her doctorate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and post-doctoral training at 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. She 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.Related Projects
- Access and adherence to malaria interventions
- Epidemiological modelling for malaria elimination
- Identifying “hot spots” and “hot pops” with serological surveillance and operational research of high sensitivity tests
- Identifying populations at risk of multidrug resistant malaria
- Impact of declining transmission on malaria treatment outcomes, immunity and risk of rebound
- Malaria vaccine development and evaluation
- Operational research on access and coverage of malaria interventions
- Pregnant women and malaria surveillance
- Rapid point-of contact test for malaria surveillance based on serology
- Within-host malaria modelling to improve the treatment of malaria
Related Publications
- A dynamic stress model explains the delayed drug effect in artemisinin treatment of Plasmodium falciparum
- Acceptability, feasibility and fidelity of an expanded role for community health workers for malaria elimination in Myanmar: A mixed-method study
- Anopheles diversity, biting behaviour and transmission potential in forest and farm environments of Gia Lai province, Vietnam
- Anti-Gametocyte Antigen Humoral Immunity and Gametocytemia During Treatment of Uncomplicated Falciparum Malaria: A Multi-National Study
- Antibody mechanisms of protection against malaria in RTS,S-vaccinated children: a post-hoc serological analysis of phase 2 trial
- Antibody targets on the surface of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes that are associated with immunity to severe malaria in young children
- Assessment of antibody responses to Anopheles SG6-P1 and Aedes N-term 34 kDa salivary peptides: a randomised human-challenge trial of controlled exposures to vector bites
- Characterizing antibody responses to mosquito salivary antigens of the Southeast Asian vectors of malaria and dengue with a human challenge model of controlled exposure: a protocol
- Community-based molecular and serological surveillance of subclinical malaria in Myanmar
- Comparison of Antibody Responses and Parasite Clearance in Artemisinin Therapeutic Efficacy Studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Asia
- Contribution of Functional Antimalarial Immunity to Measures of Parasite Clearance in Therapeutic Efficacy Studies of Artemisinin Derivatives
- Declining malaria transmission differentially impacts the maintenance of humoral immunity to Plasmodium falciparum in children
- Declining transmission and immunity to malaria and emerging artemisinin resistance in Thailand: a longitudinal study
- Effectiveness of repellent delivered through village health volunteers on malaria incidence in villages in South-East Myanmar: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial protocol
- Evaluating malaria reactive surveillance and response strategies in northeast Cambodia: a mixed-methods study
- Evaluating Thailand’s malaria reactive surveillance and response strategies for malaria elimination: a mixed-method study
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of topical repellent distributed by village health volunteer networks against Plasmodium spp. infection in Myanmar: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial
- Facilitators, barriers and acceptability of malaria reactive surveillance and response strategies in Vietnam: a mixed-methods study
- Geospatial joint modeling of vector and parasite serology to microstratify malaria transmission
- Host immunity to Plasmodium falciparum and the assessment of emerging artemisinin resistance in a multinational cohort
- Human antibodies activate complement against Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites, and are associated with protection against malaria in children
- Human antibodies against Anopheles salivary proteins: emerging biomarkers of mosquito and malaria exposure
- Identification and prioritization of merozoite antigens as targets of protective human immunity to falciparum malaria for vaccine and biomarker development
- Immunological markers of vivax exposure and immunity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- Implementation and fidelity of reactive surveillance and response strategies for malaria elimination: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Implications of population-level immunity for the emergence of artemisinin-resistant malaria: a mathematical model.
- In silico investigation of the decline in clinical efficacy of artemisinin combination therapies due to increasing artemisinin and partner drug resistance
- Induction and decay of functional complement-fixing antibodies by the RTS,S malaria vaccine in children, and a negative impact of malaria exposure
- Induction, decay and determinants of functional antibodies following vaccination with the RTS,S malaria vaccine in young children
- Investigating the efficacy of triple artemisinin-based combination therapies (TACTs) for treating Plasmodium falciparum malaria patients using mathematical modelling
- Iron deficiency during pregnancy is associated with a reduced risk of adverse birth outcomes in a malaria-endemic area in a longitudinal cohort study
- Mapping residual malaria transmission in Vietnam
- Multifunctional Antibodies Are Induced by the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine and Associated With Protection in a Phase 1/2a Trial
- Optimizing Myanmar’s community-delivered malaria volunteer model: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ perspectives
- Performance and feasibility of reactive surveillance and response strategies for malaria elimination in Vietnam: a mixed-methods study
- Perspectives of health and community stakeholders on community-delivered models of malaria elimination in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A qualitative study
- Plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte-binding homologues are targets of human inhibitory antibodies and play a role in immune evasion
- Pregnancy-specific malarial immunity and risk of malaria in pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: a systematic review
- Quantification of the dynamics of antibody response to malaria to inform sero-surveillance in pregnant women
- Quantifying the association between malaria in pregnancy and stillbirth: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Reactive surveillance and response strategies for malaria elimination in Myanmar: a literature review
- Reducing malaria transmission in forest-going mobile and migrant populations in Lao PDR and Cambodia: protocol for stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial
- Strategies for understanding and reducing the Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale hypnozoite reservoir in Papua New Guinean children: a randomised placebo-controlled trial and mathematical model
- Strengthening the health systems at national level for malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion countries: a qualitative study
- Targets of complement-fixing antibodies in protective immunity against malaria in children
- The challenges of malaria elimination in the Asia–Pacific region
- The relationship between anti-merozoite antibodies and incidence of P. falciparum malaria: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
- The role of naturally acquired antimalarial antibodies in subclinical Plasmodium spp. infection