Dr Aninda Nishat Moitry is a DPhil in Clinical Medicine student based at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory. She started her PhD in October 2023 under the supervision of Professor Philippe Guerin, and Drs. James Watson, Makoto Saito, and Stephanie Dellicour. Her doctoral research will investigate the safety of a range of antimalarial drugs used for treating acute malaria during pregnancy, with the goal to generate robust evidence to inform policy maker, regulators, clinicians, and pregnant women. 

Dr Moitry is a medical doctor by training and completed her MSc in Epidemiology from Imperial College London with Chevening Scholarship. She also gained an MPH from BRAC University, Bangladesh. She became a Fellow member of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), United Kingdom in 2022. 

Prior to starting her PhD, Dr Moitry was working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In addition to teaching Epidemiology and Public Health, she has worked on a number of research projects on maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and equity issues in health services utilisation in the last 7 years, and actively engaged in policy advocacy.