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Verena Carrara is the MAS in Public Health Program Coordinator at the Institute of Global Health (University of Geneva) and holds a Researcher role within the Faculty of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Geneva with a medical degree and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine. Her expertise spans tropical medicine, with a diploma from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp and a Master in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Her research focuses on infectious diseases epidemiology, maternal and child health, and the interplay between maternal infections, nutrition, and child neurodevelopment. She has extensive field experience with organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), including clinical and epidemiological work in Cambodia, Gabon, and on the Thai-Myanmar border. Her doctoral research at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit examined malaria epidemiology. She joined the Institute of Global Health in 2020 and became the MAS program coordinator in 2021.
