Dr Raman, Jaishree

Dr Jaishree Raman is a Molecular Biologist by training with a strong interest in malaria and public health. Raman currently heads the Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research (ARMMOR) at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa. The core focus of ARMMOR is to improve malaria diagnostic and treatment options, with the ultimate aim of assisting South Africa and Africa to eliminate malaria. To this end, ARMMOR hosts the South African National Surveillance Programme for Antimalarial Drug and Diagnostic Resistance Monitoring. This robust surveillance programme enables the near real-time tracking of emerging resistance to inform case management policy and prompt containment responses.
In partnership with collaborators from other malaria endemic countries and research organisations, including the Universities of Cape Town, Pretoria, Namibia and California-San Francisco, Raman’s laboratory is currently investigating novel techniques and technologies aimed at improving malaria case detection and treatment practices. As an active member of regional research networks including the Pathogen Genomics Diversity Network Africa (PDNA), the Southern African Drug Efficacy Network and the Elimination 8 Initiative (E8), Raman is assisting to build much needed malaria molecular capacity within national malaria control programmes and academic institutions so that African scientists and healthcare professionals can provide African solutions to eliminating and eventually eradicating malaria.