Mission Hall, Room 3700
Register for Zoom
Malaria in pregnancy remains a major contributor to adverse maternal and infant outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite extensive efforts over the past 20 years, progress toward finding safe and efficacious drugs for malaria prevention in pregnancy has been limited. This seminar will discuss the current challenges in identifying efficacious antimalarials for pregnant women, highlighting research on the potential ‘non-malarial’ benefits of existing antimalarials and the pharmacological consequences of combined regimens. The discussion will conclude with proposed directions for future research.
Speaker Biography
Michelle Roh, PhD, MPH, is a postdoctoral scholar and K99 awardee at the Malaria Elimination Initiative in the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences. She earned her MPH from the Yale School of Public Health and her PhD from the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her research employs modern epidemiological methods to evaluate malaria interventions to improve health outcomes, with a particular focus on pregnant women.
UCSF welcomes everyone, including people with disabilities, to our events. To request reasonable accommodations for this event, please contact Robert Mansfield by emailing [email protected] as soon as possible.