TriCEM is excited to announce two awards for travel to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference in 2024:
Sara O’Malley is a PhD student in the Environment program at the Duke University Nicholas School of theEnvironment. Working in the Pan Lab with Dr. Bill Pan, she studies malaria epidemiology and ecology particularly as related to environmental change, climate change, human mobility, and development. She is currently exploring how migration and changes in malaria & mosquito ecology are contributing to malaria incidence in the Darien region of Panama.
Sean Connelly is an MD-PhD student in Dr. Jonathan Juliano’s laboratory and part of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Laboratory at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He ispursing his PhD in Bioinformaticsand Computational Biology and is co-mentored by Dr. Yun Li. He studies malaria genetic epidemiology in Zanzibar and utilizes single cell RNA sequencing to understand malaria pathogenesis.
This travel award was developed to honor Professor Steve Meshnick’s (UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health) contributions to TriCEM. Steve was internationally recognized for his global work in understanding, preventing, and treating infectious diseases, particularly malaria and HIV/AIDS, and his long history of impactful training of graduate students. The award supports students opportunities to present their research or learn new methods that advance their research goals in infectious disease, global health, or evolutionary perspectives in epidemiology.
