Prof. Christophe Fraser (Pathogen Dynamics Group, BDI / PSI)

Dr. Thomas Quinn and Dr. Steven J. Reynolds (Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID / NIH; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)

Sandra Mon is a DPhil student investigating HIV sexual transmission dynamics. Her doctoral thesis combines Bayesian modelling, phylogenetic analysis, and classical epidemiology to disentangle within-couple and extra-couple HIV transmission in stable, cohabiting couples over the scale-up of combination HIV interventions in southern Uganda. 

Sandra’s research interests revolve around infectious disease dynamics, genomic analysis, and health & human rights policy. Her prior research experience include malaria molecular epidemiology and vaccine development, and HIV epidemiology among marginalized key populations in Southeast Asia. She has also collaborated with Physicians for Human Rights on epidemiologic assessments of human rights abuses and the documentation of attacks on health in conflict, and recently served as a co-Commissioner on the International AIDS Society-Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights.

A global health professional from Myanmar, Sandra is a staunch advocate of interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to disease control, and regularly applies the socio-ecological and epistemic injustice frameworks to her epidemiology research.

MSPH, Global Disease Epidemiology and Control (International Health), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2014 - 2016

BA, Molecular Biology, Colgate University, 2008 - 2012