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Mohammad Ali, Ph.D.
Sr. Scientific Analyst
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Mohammad
Ali, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Head of the Data Management, GIS, and Statistics unit, joined the IVI in March 2001 to conduct geographic research on vaccine and disease burden studies, and to develop and implement database management systems for the multi-centric studies. Dr. Ali obtained his degree of Doctor in Sciences in May 2000 from the Department of Geomatics, University of Liege, Belgium. His doctoral thesis involved geographical epidemiology of cholera. He is a Bangladeshi, and worked as the Head of the Geographic Systems Unit (GIS) Unit in the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) before joining the IVI. Dr. Ali spent 15 years of service at the ICDDR,B, and had acquired his expertise in the field of geographic research on health and population. His other expertise includes computer systems development and data management.
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Batmunkh Nyambat, M.D., M.P.H.
Research Associate
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Dr. Batmunkh Nyambat, M.D. M.P.H. graduated from the National Medical University in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in June 1998 with his Doctor of Medicine degree. Following his medical training, he embarked on public health studies at the Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University located in Seoul, Korea. In July 2001, he graduated from Yonsei University with a Masters of Public Health degree. Since 2001, Dr. Nyambat has worked in the Division of Translational Research at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) located in Seoul, South Korea. At the IVI, he has played an active role in the design and conduct of surveillance and disease burden studies of diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections among children in Cambodia, China, Korea, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Currently, he is working for Pan Asian Pneumococcal disease study, PneumoNet which is a multi-center, multi-national, hospital-based study to assess the burden of invasive pneumococcal diseases in 6 Asian countries including China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, and The Philippines.
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Jacqueline Deen, M.D., MSc.
Research Scientist
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Jacqueline
Deen, MD, M.Sc. is from Cebu, Philippines.
After completing medical school, she moved to the United
States for a six-year pediatric and pediatric infectious
disease training. In 1993, she returned home to work as
a pediatrician at the Southern Islands Medical Center
and as a WHO consultant on projects on improving the in-hospital
management of childhood illnesses. In 1997, she received
a master's degree in Public Health in Developing Countries
from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
From 1999 to 2000, she was a Research Clinician at the
Medical Research Council in The Gambia, working on malaria
and malnutrition projects. From 2000 to 2001, she led
a WHO-funded study on the implementation of severe malnutrition
guidelines in hospitals in Africa, working in Ethiopia,
Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana. She joined the IVI on
February 2002, and coordinates activities on cholera.
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Paul Kilgore, M.D.,M.P.H.,
Research Scientist
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Paul
Kilgore, M.D., M.P.H, came to the IVI in
June 1999. Dr. Kilgore, an internist and epidemiologist,
comes from a distinguished career at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in Atlanta where he was involved
in numerous diarrheal disease studies, especially in connection
with rotavirus infections. He has worked in Kenya, Trinidad,
Bolivia, and Bangladesh. At the IVI, Dr. Kilgore holds
the title of Scientist. He plays a leading role in the
IVI¡¯s studies of bacterial meningitis in Asian children. |
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Eunyoung Kim, M.B.A.
Head, Program Administration
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Ms.
Eunyoung Kim, M.B.A., Head, Program Administration,
joined IVI in April, 1996. A graduate of Seoul National University, she majored in English Language and Literature. Prior to joining IVI, she spent several years teaching English. She also worked briefly as a secretary at the UNDP Office in Seoul. |
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Lorenz von Seidlein, M.D., M.Sc.,
Senior Research Scientist
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Lorenz
von Seidlein, M.D., M.Sc., was born in Munich,
Germany. Dr. Seidlein attended the Royal College of Surgeons
in Ireland. Following one year of internships in the London
area, he moved to Miami, Florida for 3 years of pediatrics
training. In 1992 he went to UCLA for infectious diseases
training including laboratory research on viral characteristics
responsible for materno-fetal HIV transmission. He also
worked in The Gambia, West Africa to conduct two antimalarial
drug trials and returned to London at the end of 1996
to attend a one year course in communicable disease epidemiology
at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
After short assignments in Zvornic, former Yugoslavia,
and Artibonite valley, Haiti, at the end of 1997 and the
beginning of 1998, he went back to The Gambia in April
1998 and conducted another antimalarial drug trial which
he completed in December 1998, followed by a mass drug
administration trial in 1999. At IVI he serves as the
scientific coordinator of shigellosis projects with the
DOMI Program. |
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Zhi-Yi Xu, M.D
Senior Scientist
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Zhi-Yi
Xu, M.D., is former Professor and Chairman
of the Department of Epidemiology at Shanghai Medical
University. He joined the IVI in early 1998 as a Senior
Scientist. Dr. Xu has over 100 publications on infectious
disease epidemiology and clinical evaluation of vaccines.
He is recognized as a world authority on hepatitis B and
hepatitis A and conducted some of the first clinical trials
of vaccines against these diseases. Dr. Xu has served
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the
U.S. and with the former WHO Global Programme on AIDS.
He has also been a member of several advisory committees
on vaccines and immunization for the Ministry of Health
of China. He is leading IVI's multicountry program on
Japanese encephalitis. |
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Rion Leon Ochiai, M.H.S.
Associate Research Scientist
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Leon
Ochia, a Japanese national, received Master of Health Sciences degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 2000. Prior to the appointment at the International Vaccine Institute, Mr. Ochiai had worked as a field coordinator for a project on malaria infection in child health for two years in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Upon joining the IVI as DOMI (Diseases of the Most Impoverished) Program Fellow in 2002, he had assisted in developing the project study sites for the DOMI Typhoid Vi effectiveness trial sites in Hechi, Southern China; Hue, Central Vietnam; Karachi, Pakistan; Kolkata, India; and North Jakarta, Indonesia, and successfully conducted large scale effectiveness trials in these sites vaccinating approximately 200,000 people. He is leading the analyses of the data from these effectiveness trials. Currently, Mr. Ochiai, as Research Scientist, is coordinating typhoid vaccine pilot introduction programs in Indonesia and Pakistan as part of the VIVA (Vi-based vaccines for Asia) Initiative, in addition to several other studies on typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever at the International Vaccine Institute. |
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Jin-Kyung Park, Ph.D.
Associate Scientific Analyst
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Jin-Kyung
Park, Ph.D. Scientific Research Analyst, joined IVI in June 2001. Dr. Park received doctoral degree in 2004 from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Before joining IVI, she lectured at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Konkuk University, and worked as a researcher at the Research Institute of Community Health, Hanyang University in Korea. She is a biostatistician of the institute and has expertise in clinical and epidemiological data analysis, cluster analysis of vaccine efficacy trials, study design for randomization. Besides, she is involved in designing and implementing large scale multi-centric data management systems. |
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Mahesh K. Puri, M.S.
Computer System Analyst
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Puri
Mahesh, Computer Systems Analyst, received a master's
degree in Business Administration and Commerce from Tribhuvan
University (TU) in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1983, and master's
degree in Science in Computer Science from De Salle University
in Manila, the Philippines, in 1991. He worked for over
5 years in Tanzania and Malawi (East Africa) as an IT
Specialist under the United Nations Development Program.
All told, he has worked over 18 years in the IT field.
He is helping scientific staff with data management issues
of the DOMI program at the IVI. |
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Anna Lena Lopez, MD,MPH
Scientist
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Dr. Anna Lena Lopez, received her B.S in 1984 and MD in 1990 from the University of the Philippines. After medical school she had her pediatric residency training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center in New York and her pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center. Following her training, she became a clinical associate professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at the Philippine General Hospital-University of the Philippines Manila. At that time she was involved in MMR vaccine trials in the Philippines. In 2003, she finished her MPH with Certificate of Vaccine Science and Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. Prior to joining IVI, she was working as an attending physician at New York Methodist Hospital and was a Clinical Assistant Professor of pediatrics at Cornell University. |
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Florian Marks, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
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Dr. Florian Marks, graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany. During his training he was a visiting fellow at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel, Switzerland, where he worked in the "Medicines for Malaria Venture" group under the supervision of Professor Reto Brun. His PhD work was perfomed at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Research Group Infection Epidemiology, in Hamburg under the mentorship of Professor Rolf D. Horstmann and PD Dr. Jurgen May, and was completed in 2005. Thereafter he continued as a postdoctoral fellow at the Bernhard Nocht Institute until his recent assignment to the International Vaccine Institute.
The PhD work of Dr. Marks was primarily based on the development and application of novel and highly sensitive methods to assess drug resistance markers of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. These methods were successfully applied in basic studies on infection epidemiology of malaria in various clinical trials. From September 2003 to January 2004, Dr. Marks was seconded to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Kumasi, Ghana, where he organized two clinical malaria trials and collected samples for own studies. Dr. Marks is currently completing a distance learning course at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to receive his MSc in Public Health. He started to work at the Translational Research Division as DOMI Program Fellow and is happy to now have joined the IVI team. |
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Deok Ryun Kim, M.S.
Science / Senior Statistical Analyst
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Deok Ryun Kim, M.S., obtained her Bachelor and Masters degrees in Statistics from the Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea in 1992 and 1997, respectively. She is working as the Senior Statistical Analyst of Translational Research Division in the International Vaccine Institute. Prior to joining IVI, she served as core-researcher to survey small and medium business to construct business-database and investigate actual conditions of business in Gyeonggi province, Korea (1997-2000): survey design, monitoring process, statistical analysis, publishing report. She has a lecture experiences in an introduction of computer science and basic statistics (1992-1995). In more than 7 years at the IVI, she has served statistical supports to scientists, such as sample size calculation and statistical analysis in various epidemiologic or clinical study designs, and managed spatial and non-spatial data. She has also developed stand-alone or web-based computerized data management system to be appropriated in clinical trial. Her research interests include generalized linear modeling and hierarchical modeling for binary and count disease data, and particularly, spatial modeling of geographical reference data and disease mapping through Bayesian hierarchical approach. |
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Na Yoon Chang, M.S.
Scientific Date Analyst
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Ms. Nayoon Chang , started to work as Data management Assistant. She received Master's degree in Statistics from Hankuk University of Foreign studies in 2001. She worked for National Cancer Center(NCC) Institute Biostatistics Branch for 1 year and performed Survival analysis, GIS cancer mapping, research and data management using SAS & Fox-pro. She is very pleasant person and is happy to join IVI. She hopes that she could develop her professional career more at IVI. |
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Sue Kyoung Jo, B.A.
Senior Administrative Assistant
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Sue Kyoung Jo , joined IVI on November 19, 2002 as Administrative Assistant II. She graduated from Sung Shin Women's University in 2001 with BA degree in English Language & Literature. After graduation, she has worked for Expeditors International, a worldwide logistic company, for 2 years. As informed by Eunyoung she will support DOMI Program in the areas of logistics and administration. |
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Ms. Eun Ju Yang
Senior Administrative Assistant
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Ms. Eun Ju Yang , joined the Institute as Administrative Assistant I at Translational Research Division as of Jul. 13, 2006. She received B.A in 1998 In English Language & Literature from Yonsei University., and she just started master's course for Business Administration in Seoul National University. Before joining IVI, she worked for Korea Maritime Institute, one of the Korean Government-sponsored research institutes in the field of socio-economics research, for six years. In Korea Maritime Institute, she coordinated Institute's international research cooperation as an administrative assistant for three years. During the other three years, she worked as a researcher whose main duty was to provide backup materials for government's policy making and to publish regular shipping market analysis reports. |
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Moon Kyoung Jung, B.A.
Administrative Assistant
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Moon Kyoung Jung, B.A., has received B.A. from Hanyang University of Chinese Literature and language in 2000. After graduation, she worked for Club med Vacances Korea and performed sales and operation job for 3 years. After that, she shifted to mobile industry and worked at Bellwave Co. Ltd and SKY Microsystems as a project coordinator for 3 years and for 6 months respectively. |
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Soo Young Kwon, B.A.
Administrative Assistant
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Soo Young Kwon, B.A., received her B.S in 2001 from Ewha Womans University. She had built her career as secretary at Littauer Investment, Human Innotek and Richemont Korea. She came on board of IVI as a program admin in TRD. |
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Seok Woo Kim, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Epidemiologist
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Seok Woo Kim, M.D., M.P.H., DTM&H is a medical epidemiologist working in the Division of Translational Research at the International Vaccine Institute headquartered in Seoul, Korea. Dr. Kim joined International Vaccine Institute in March 2007, and is working for Pan Asian Pneumococcal disease study, PneumoNet. Dr. Kim serves as lead epidemiologist for the IVI team supporting PneumoNet. This project is a multi-center, multi-national, hospital-based study to assess the burden of invasive pneumoactive surveillance research which includes China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, and The Philippines. Prior to joining the IVI, Dr. Kim completed medical studies at the Seoul National University College of Medicine where he received his M.D. degree in 1991. Following graduation from the College of Medicine, he completed hospital internship and government service requirement. Dr. Kim completed his residency training in the specialty of dermatology in 1999 while, at the same time, completing his MSc. in Epidemiology at Seoul National University and he went on to complete graduate studies in epidemiology and international health at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene where he received his Masters of Public Health in 2005. In, Dr. Kim attended short-term training at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine where he received his Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2005. Dr. Kim has worked internationally in India and Myanmar. |
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Denise DeRoeck, M.P.H.
Coordinator, Social Science Research and Institutional Development
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Denise DeRoeck, M.P.H., has 20 years of project management and research experience in global health, in the areas of immunization/vaccine policy and financing, child survival, family planning and health financing. As a Senior Analyst and Program Manager for Abt Associates' Partnerships for Health Reform Project, she wrote a comprehensive review of immunization financing and managed a series of cost and financing studies of immunization programs in developing countries. As a consultant for IVI, she conducted policymaker surveys in Asian countries for the DOMI Program and the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative to determine the prevailing views of policymakers concerning the diseases in question (enterics and dengue fever) and their interest in control measures, including vaccination. She also put together packages of data for case studies on typhoid fever in three Asian countries, using multi-faceted data from the DOMI Program. Other consultancies have included: preparing a background report on immunization financing for the Asian Development Bank, conducting analyses and preparing reports on the cost and financing of national immunization programs in Djbouti and Yemen for the World Bank; developing the content for the Advanced Immunization Management (AIM) distance-learning module on the global vaccine market and leading a feasibility study of a bulk purchasing mechanism for vaccines in Eastern Europe for PATH. Ms. DeRoeck, who has a Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles, began working full-time for IVI in March 2006, coordinating the economic and socio-behavioral research of the DOMI Program, coordinating meetings, writing and editing annual reports and other documents, and taking part in program development activities. |
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Aparna Singh Shah M.B.B.S., M.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Aparna Singh Shah M.B.B.S., M.D.,is a Medical Microbiologist working in the Division of Translational Research at the International Vaccine Institute. Dr. Shah joined International Vaccine Institute in April 2007, and is working for Pan Asian Pneumococcal disease study, PneumoNet. Dr. Shah is Assistant Professor in Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu which is most prestigious Medical Institute of Nepal for last five years (2002-2007). Dr. Shah serves as Post Doc Fellow for the IVI team supporting PneumoNet. This project is a multi-center, multi-national, hospital-based study to assess the burden of invasive pneumo active surveillance research which includes China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Philippines. Prior to joining the IVI, Dr. Aparna graduated at the King George Medical College, India where she received her MBBS (Bachelors in Medicine and Bachelors in Surgery) .She did Masters in Infectious Diseases Microbiology (M.D) from the Kasturba Medical College, India. Dr. Aparna has done various trainings in Research methodologies, Molecular biology, PCR, Diagnostic and Ultrasonography. She is a facilitator for National Public Health laboratories, Nepal for Antimicrobial Resistance control training and Peer reviewer for Nepal Medical Association Journal. She worked as Nepal SAPNA (South Asian Pneumococcal Alliance, ADIP-GAVI) Coordinator from November 2004 to April 2007. |
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Soon Ae Kim, M.P.H
Research Associate
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Soon Ae Kim, M.P.H, joined IVI in December 2006. She studied public health and epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University in 2000 and will complete her doctoral degree of Public Health by the end of August 2008 in Seoul National University. In her prior work experience, she served extensively to support clinical research studies and post-marketing studies in South Korea while working in a private pharmaceutical firm as well as a contract research organization (CRO) in Seoul, Korea. She has also participated in protocol writing, data collection, monitoring and data analysis for clinical trials of cell and gene therapeutic agents. Now she is working on epidemiology projects for respiratory disease including pneumococcal disease surveillance, large dataset analysis, and clinical burden of pneumococcal disease in Translational Research Division.
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Hye Jung Kwon, M.P.H.
Research Associate
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Hye Jung Kwon, M.P.H., joined IVI in March 2007 as Research Associate, working primarily for Institutional Review Board and monitoring clinical trials. She received her BS in Nursing in 2000 and is MPH candidate at Seoul National University. After nursing school, she worked as a registered nurse at Asan Medical Center and as a Korean Overseas Volunteer of KOICA in Peru for 2 years. She has more than 3 years experience with clinical trials. This includes roles as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Seoul National University Hospital and a Clinical Research Associate at Quintiles Transnational Korea.
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Yun Kyung Lee, B.A.
Administrative Assistnat I
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Yun Kyung Lee, B.A., received her degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 2004 with major in International Development Studies, Political Science - International Relations and Advanced East Asian Studies, focused on Japanese Language & Literature. After graduation, she completed her internship at IOM, International Organization for Migration, in Seoul Office. Prior to joining IVI, she worked at Samsung TESCO for 3 years as an Executive Director's Assistant/Translator/Financial officer.
She has been working as Administrative Assistant I of TRD since she joined IVI in Oct. 2007. She is multilingual with Japanese, Korean and English. She is hoping to contribute further in developed, developing and underdeveloped society through IVI.
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Young Ae You
Translational Research / Assistant Scientific Data Analyst
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Young Ae You, received Master of Medicine in Biostatistics and Computing from Yonsei University in 2008. Before joining IVI, she worked as a research assistant at the Health Insurance Review and Assessment. She is working as the Assistant Scientific Data Analyst of Translational Research Division at IVI. |
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Hyon Jin Jeon, B.A.
Adminisitrative Assistiant
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Hyon Jin Jeon, B.A.,graduated from Korea University in 2003 and received B.A. degree majored in English Language & Literature. Prior to joining IVI, she worked in Asiana Airlines for four and a half years. She joined IVI as Administrative Assistant at Translational Research Division as of May 5, 2008. |
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Ranjith Batuwanthudawe, MBBS, MSc, MD
Associate Research Scientist
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Ranjith Batuwanthudawe, MBBS, MSc, MD,graduated from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1995 and joined the public health program of the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health. He Completed masters in Public Health in 2000 and earned MD in Community Medicine from University of Colombo in 2005, successfully defending thesis on Hib Epidemiology in Colombo district. He was Sri Lanka's principal investigator in Hib surveillance, Pneumococcal surveillance (South Asian Pneumococcal Network), Rotavirus surveillance (Asian Rotavirus Surveillance Network) projects and Co-principal investigator of JE vaccine trial. He has worked at all levels of Sri Lanka EPI program and disease surveillance program from 1997 and was working as the Regional Epidemiologist of Colombo District prior to joining World Health Organization's South East Asian Regional Office as the Medical Officer for New Vaccine Introduction, in May 2007. |
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Mohammad Imran Khan, MBBS, MSc
Research Scientist
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Mohammad Imran Khan, MBBS, MSc, received a Masters degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Aga Khan University (AKU) - Pakistan. In 2002 he joined a collaborative project at the department of Pediatrics Aga Khan University with International Vaccine Institute (IVI) as apart of Disease of Most Impoverished (DOMI) program of the institute. His major responsibilities included supervision of Vi vaccine demonstration project in Karachi, where approximately 30,000 children (aged 2 - 16 years) were vaccinated to assess the effectiveness of Vi vaccine in reducing typhoid fever in a cluster randomized design in a high risk population. |
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