Dr Charvy Narain holds a doctorate in Neurosciences from the University of Oxford, and has worked in research communications for over 15 years. In her currently role as Communications Manager for IDDO, she provides strategic communications advice and implements IDDO's communications strategy across various communications channels, including the IDDO website and social media. She also line manages the IDDO communications officer.
Caitlin joined IDDO in August 2021 and works as the Programme Manager for the Visceral Leishmaniasis and COVID-19 platforms, managing delivery of these programmes, their scientific research activities and collaborations. Additionally, as part of the IDDO Programme Management team, Caitlin supports wider strategic and operational development for the IDDO portfolio of research themes on neglected poverty-related diseases.
Caitlin has a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh, with an honours specialisation in Infectious Diseases. She went on to complete a PhD at the University of Virginia in microbiology, followed by postdoctoral scientist positions at MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at the University of Oxford, researching a range of topics including malnutrition, enteric infections, and malaria.
Kalynn joined IDDO in August 2016. As Head of Data Engineering and Informatics, she is responsible for the development of data standards, the robustness of the curation process, assuring the quality of the data, and the efficiency of the data curation team.
Before moving to Oxford, Kalynn worked for over four years on the Nashville Breast Health Study, a breast cancer epidemiology project at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and then six years coordinating a variety of interventional trials for children with language delays at the KidTalk group at Vanderbilt University. She has a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies from Vanderbilt University.
Caitlin joined the IDDO team as the WWARN Programme Manager in February of 2019. In her role, she helps to manage the delivery of scientific research activities and collaborations under the Malaria theme. Caitlin holds a dual degree from Virginia Tech in Psychology and Human Nutrition, Food, and Exercise. She is currently working towards completing a Master in Public Health degree from George Washington University.
Prabin joined the WorldWide Antimalarial Research Network (WWARN) – the prototypic model to IDDO – as a statistician in September 2011. His work with WWARN included assessment of the relationship between weight-adjusted dose and parasitological outcomes for artemisinin combination therapies.
His doctoral thesis (2015–2018, Linacre College) explored different statistical approaches for handling parasitic recurrences when quantifying antimalarial blood stage efficacy in P. falciparum.
In his current role, Prabin's main focus is the quantification of risk of severe and serious adverse events following antileishmanial therapies. His interest lies in exploring methodological issues in design and analysis of antileishmanial clinical trials.
Research Theme: VL, Malaria, Non-Malarial Febrile Illness