Bianca DSouza BSPH MSc

Manager - ACT Consortium

I manage the ACT Consortium, an international research collaboration funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and coordinated through LSHTM with partners in Africa, Asia, Europe and the US.

The Consortium was set up to answer key questions to optimize the delivery and use of antimalarials in Africa and Asia. It has specific aims around improving access, targeting, safety and quality, and a general aim to provide information that is useful for policy makers and clinicians for planning and implementing delivery of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is the WHO-recommended treatment for P. falciparum malaria.  We are currently conducting 16 studies in 10 countries.  You can learn more about our work by visiting our website, http://www.actconsortium.org

Prior to joining LSHTM and the ACT Consortium in July 2008 I worked for the Health Protection Agency to improve tuberculosis control in London. I have also worked for an international HIV/AIDS treatment initiative called The Starfish Project based at New York Presbyterian Hospital and in international blindness prevention through ORBIS International and their Flying Eye Hospital.

I am currently enrolled as a part-time DrPH student in the Department of Global Health and Development within the Faculty of Public Health and Policy.  I have an MSc in the control of infectious disease from LSHTM and a BSPH in health policy and management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Affiliation

Research areas

  • Health policy
  • Malaria
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