Jasmin Akter

Dr. Jasmin Akter is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award Fellow, working as a Research fellow at the School of Medicine, IMPACT, Deakin University in Prof. Alyssa E. Barry’s group in a collaboration study with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) on malaria genomics.

She has working experience in infectious diseases research for more than 15 years, with highly cited publications in malaria, enteric parasitic, and bacterial diseases.

Her research interests include malaria epidemiology, anti-malaria drug resistance, clinical and pathophysiological features of malaria, and, more importantly, parasite biology and the host response to disease and gut microbiome.

She is focused on establishing a sustainable, high-throughput molecular surveillance platform to monitor anti-malaria drug resistance, and transmission dynamics and provide early warning signals to prevent widespread resistance to artemisinin and partner drugs in Bangladesh. Her study will generate genomic data on antimalarial drug resistance and parasite relatedness and establish the capacity for processing the data to inform the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in Bangladesh with clear intelligence on where to upscale interventions, conduct the clinical survey, change drug policy and share the data with WWARN.