Dr Jaishree Raman is a molecular biologist by training with a strong interest in malaria and public health. She currently heads the Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research (ARMMOR) at the NICD (National Institute for Communicable Diseases). The core focus of ARMMOR is to improve malaria diagnostic and treatment options and to assist South Africa and Africa eliminate malaria. To this end, ARMMOR hosts the South African National Surveillance Programme for Antimalarial Drug and Diagnostic Resistance Monitoring. As the chair of the case management sub-committee of the South African Malaria Elimination Committee, Dr Raman has developed and delivered training courses aimed at capacitating the malaria programme staff on case management protocols and practices.
Dr Raman is a member of several regional networks, such as the Elimination 8 and Pathogen Diversity Network Africa, that are aiming to strengthen malaria genomic and bioinformatics capacity across Africa. She co-developed a leadership and management course for malaria elimination targeting malaria programme staff currently being delivered by GIBBS (Gordon Institute of Business Science) and the University of Pretoria and is also a mentor on the recently launched Pan-African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) LiftHerUp initiative, which is focussing on increasing African women leaders in science, with a major focus on vector-borne diseases.
