Dr Shunmay Yeung MBBS MRCP MRCPCH DTM&H PhD

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Currently, I am a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Core scientists for the Artemisinin Combination Therapy Consortium (ACTc), for which I am also a Deputy Director. I am also an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Disease.

I trained in paediatrics specializing in paediatric infectious disease in London. After completing MRCPCH and the DTM&H I spent a couple of years working in a rural hospital in KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa, initially undertaking a DfID funded research project on HIV infection in children, and then as a general Medical Officer. During my training as a specialist registrar I undertook a PhD based in Southeast Asia, under the supervision of Professors Nick White and Anne Mills, with funding from the Wellcome Trust.  I came back to the UK to complete my specialist training, ending with six months in neonatal intensive care!

Now, I continue to work clinically at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, but  spend most of my time in research and teaching.

My PhD focused on malaria, and involved a wide range of skills including economic analysis, mathematical modeling, operational research and undertaking community based studies of access to malaria treatment and diagnosis. In my current work I continue to call upon this experience to help bridge between research, policy and practice.  Although I am particularly interested in drug resistance, antimalarial drug use and drug quality, as a paediatrician I have always been interested in the diagnosis and treatment of all febrile illness in children.

With the ACT consortium I am involved in supporting a wide range of research projects in Africa and in Afghanistan.  Most of my own research has been in SE Asia, and in particular in Cambodia. I continue to have a strong affiliation with the Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit in Bangkok and was the co-ordinator for the Artemisinin  Resistance Confirmation, Characterization and Containment (ARC3) consortium.  I have also worked for the WHO Global Malaria Programme based in Geneva suppporting their work related to artemisinin resistance and  sit on a number of expert committees and advisory boards.   

Affiliation

• Department of Global Health and Development
• Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
• Department of Clinical Research

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• Selected publications

• Cost-effectiveness of parenteral artesunate for treating children with severe malaria in sub-Saharan Africa

  Lubell, Y.; Riewpaiboon, A.; Dondorp, A.M.; von Seidlein, L.; Mokuolu, O.A.; Nansumba, M.; Gesase, S.; Kent, A.; Mtove, G.; Olaosebikan, R.; Ngum, W.P.; Fanello, C.I.; Hendriksen, I.; Day, N.P.J.; White, N.J.; Yeung, S.

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2011; 89(7):504-512

• Socially-marketed rapid diagnostic tests and ACT in the private sector: ten years of experience in Cambodia.

  Yeung, S. ; Patouillard, E. ; Allen, H. ; Socheat, D. ;

  Malar J, 2011; 10:243

• Artemisinin resistance: current status and scenarios for containment.

  Dondorp, A.M.; Yeung, S.; White, L.; Nguon, C.; Day, N.P.; Socheat, D.; von Seidlein, L.;

  Nat Rev Microbiol, 2010; 8(4):272-80

• Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

  Dondorp, A.M.; Nosten, F.; Yi, P.; Das, D.; Phyo, A.P.; Tarning, J.; Lwin, K.M.; Ariey, F.; Hanpithakpong, W.; Lee, S.J.; Ringwald, P.; Silamut, K.; Imwong, M.; Chotivanich, K.; Lim, P.; Herdman, T.; An, S.S.; Yeung, S.; Singhasivanon, P.; Day, N.P.; Lindegardh, N.; Socheat, D.; White, N.J.;

  N Engl J Med, 2009; 361(5):455-67

• Artemisinin resistance on the Thai-Cambodian border.

  Yeung, S.; Socheat, D.; Moorthy, V.S.; Mills, A.J.;

  Lancet, 2009; 374(9699):1418-9

• Access to artemisinin combination therapy for malaria in remote areas of Cambodia.

  Yeung, S.; Van Damme, W.; Socheat, D.; White, N.J.; Mills, A.;

  Malar J, 2008; 7:96

• How do patients use antimalarial drugs? A review of the evidence

  Yeung, S.; White, N.J.

  Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2005; 10(2):121-138

• Antimalarial drug resistance, artemisinin-based combination therapy, and the contribution of modeling to elucidating policy choices.

  Yeung, S.; Pongtavornpinyo, W.; Hastings, I.M.; Mills, A.J.; White, N.J.;

  Am J Trop Med Hyg , 2004; 71(2 Suppl):179-86

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