Professor Elizabeth Ashley

Professor Elizabeth Ashley is the Director of the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) in Vientiane, Laos.  She is a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Health Sciences in Laos, and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has worked in Southeast Asia for 18 of the last 26 years, in Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Her main academic interests are antimalarial therapeutics and resistance, optimal treatment of infectious diseases in low resource settings and training early career scientists.