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Verena Carrara graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine (FMH). Her interest in tropical infectious diseases led her to obtain a diploma in tropical medicine from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, and a Master in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Verena's experience combines humanitarian work with epidemiological, operational, and clinical research in multidisciplinary teams across multilingual and multicultural contexts in low- and middle-income countries. She has worked abroad in rural Cambodia with Médecins Sans Frontières as a clinical advisor to medical doctors and managed MSF-led STD clinics. Additionally, she coordinated activities to develop an active surveillance system for wild poliovirus in Gabon. After returning to Southeast Asia, she worked on the Thai-Myanmar border for the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and was involved in the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Research Unit, where she completed her Ph.D. on malaria epidemiology. In 2020, she joined the Institute of Global Health in Geneva, and since September 2021, she has served as the MAS Public Health program coordinator. Her research interests include infectious diseases epidemiology, maternal and child health, particularly the role of maternal infections on nutritional status, birth outcomes, and child growth and neurocognitive development in early childhood.
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