Rob Commons

A/Prof Rob Commons is an Infectious Diseases Physician who completed his PhD at Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin with Prof Ric Price, Prof Julie Simpson and Prof Kamala Thriemer. His current research focuses on identifying improvements in the treatment of P. vivax using a combination of data from retrospective and prospective clinical studies. Affiliated with the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) he is undertaking large scale individual patient pooled analyses to investigate the dose effect of schizontocidal drugs, primaquine and tafenoquine on the risk of P. vivax recurrence and the haematological response. In addition, using data from large multicenter prospective studies he is assessing the cumulative risk of anaemia with repeat P. vivax infections and the effects of primaquine and tafenoquine pharmacokinetic paramaters on outcomes.

Team

• Ihsan Fadilah, PhD Candidate
• Emily Groves, PhD Candidate
• Kathy Nguyen, Research Assistant