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Batmunkh Nyambat, M.D., M.P.H.
Research Scientist / Regional Coordinator at Support Establish Vaccine Advisory Committes Initiative
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Dr. Batmunkh Nyambat, M.D. M.P.H. graduated from the National Medical University in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in June 1998 with his Doctor of Medicine degree. Following his medical training, he embarked on public health studies at the Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University located in Seoul, Korea. In July 2001, he graduated from Yonsei University with a Masters of Public Health degree. Since 2001, Dr. Nyambat has worked in the Division of Translational Research at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) located in Seoul, South Korea. At the IVI, he has played an active role in the design and conduct of surveillance and disease burden studies of diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections among children in Cambodia, China, Korea, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Currently, he is working for Pan Asian Pneumococcal disease study, PneumoNet which is a multi-center, multi-national, hospital-based study to assess the burden of invasive pneumococcal diseases in 6 Asian countries including China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, and The Philippines.
e-mail : bnyam@ivi.int
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Soon Ae Kim, M.P.H, Ph.D
Associate Research Scientist
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Soon Ae Kim, M.P.H, Ph.D joined IVI in December 2006. She studied public health and epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University in 2000 and completed her doctoral degree of Public Health (Dr. PH) in 2008 at the Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University. In her prior work experience, she has served extensively to support clinical research studies and post-marketing studies in South Korea while working in a private pharmaceutical firm as well as a contract research organization (CRO) in Seoul, Korea. She has also participated in protocol writing, data collection, monitoring and data analysis for clinical trials of cell and gene therapeutic agents. Now she is working on epidemiology projects for respiratory disease including pneumococcal disease surveillance, large dataset analysis, and clinical burden of pneumococcal disease in Translational Research Division.
e-mail : sakim@ivi.int |
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Sunheang Shin, M.P.H,
Scientist
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Sunheang Shin, M.P.H,
e-mail : sshin@ivi.int |
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Hye Jung Kwon, M.P.H.
Research Associate
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Hye Jung Kwon, M.P.H., joined IVI in March 2007 as Research Associate, working primarily for Institutional Review Board and monitoring clinical trials. She received her BS in Nursing in 2000 and is MPH candidate at Seoul National University. After nursing school, she worked as a registered nurse at Asan Medical Center and as a Korean Overseas Volunteer of KOICA in Peru for 2 years. She has more than 3 years experience with clinical trials. This includes roles as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Seoul National University Hospital and a Clinical Research Associate at Quintiles Transnational Korea.
e-mail : hjkwon@ivi.int |
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Rion Leon Ochiai, M.H.S.
Associate Research Scientist
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Leon
Ochia, a Japanese national, received Master of Health Sciences degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 2000. Prior to the appointment at the International Vaccine Institute, Mr. Ochiai had worked as a field coordinator for a project on malaria infection in child health for two years in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Upon joining the IVI as DOMI (Diseases of the Most Impoverished) Program Fellow in 2002, he had assisted in developing the project study sites for the DOMI Typhoid Vi effectiveness trial sites in Hechi, Southern China; Hue, Central Vietnam; Karachi, Pakistan; Kolkata, India; and North Jakarta, Indonesia, and successfully conducted large scale effectiveness trials in these sites vaccinating approximately 200,000 people. He is leading the analyses of the data from these effectiveness trials. Currently, Mr. Ochiai, as Research Scientist, is coordinating typhoid vaccine pilot introduction programs in Indonesia and Pakistan as part of the VIVA (Vi-based vaccines for Asia) Initiative, in addition to several other studies on typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever at the International Vaccine Institute.
e-mail : rlochiai@ivi.int |
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Florian Marks, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Research Scientist
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Dr. Florian Marks, MPH, PhD, a national from Germany, graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany. His PhD work on Plasmodium falciparum epidemiology was perfomed at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Research Group Infection Epidemiology, Hamburg, Germany under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Rolf D. Horstmann and Prof. Dr. Jurgen May. Dr. Marks also received a postgraduate degree and his Master of Science in Public Health (MPH) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
At the IVI, Dr. Marks coordinates the IVI's multicountry program on Japanese Encephalitis, which is conducted in Viet Nam, Indonesia, and Bangladesh as well as the IVI program "Improvement of Diagnostics and Surveillance for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases" in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). In addition, Dr. Marks plays an active role in the design and conduct of epidemiological studies on tuberculosis in the Philippines, Central Asia and India. In the end of 2009, Dr. Marks was appointed as Coordinator for the African Typhoid Fever Program that is aimed at setting-up standardized typhoid fever surveillance in 15 African countries to assess the disease burden and provide data for evidence-based introduction of vaccination programs.
e-mail : fmarks@ivi.int |
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Mahesh K. Puri, M.S.
Senior Systems Analyst
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Puri
Mahesh, Senior Systems Analyst, received a master's
degree in Business Administration and Commerce from Tribhuvan
University (TU) in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1983, and master's
degree in Science in Computer Science from De Salle University
in Manila, the Philippines, in 1991. He worked for over
5 years in Tanzania and Malawi (East Africa) as an IT
Specialist under the United Nations Development Program.
He has worked over 18 years in the IT field.
He is helping scientific staff with data management issues
of the DOMI program at the IVI.
e-mail : mkpuri@ivi.int |
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Jin-Kyung Park, Ph.D.
Associate Scientific Analyst
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Jin-Kyung
Park, Ph.D. Scientific Research Analyst, joined IVI in June 2001. Dr. Park received doctoral degree in 2004 from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Before joining IVI, she lectured at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Konkuk University, and worked as a researcher at the Research Institute of Community Health, Hanyang University in Korea. She is a biostatistician of the institute and has expertise in clinical and epidemiological data analysis, cluster analysis of vaccine efficacy trials, study design for randomization. Besides, she is involved in designing and implementing large scale multi-centric data management systems.
e-mail : jkpark@ivi.int |
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Deok Ryun Kim, M.S.
Science / Senior Statistical Analyst
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Deok Ryun Kim, M.S., obtained her Bachelor and Masters degrees in Statistics from the Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea in 1992 and 1997, respectively. She is working as the Senior Statistical Analyst of Translational Research Division in the International Vaccine Institute. Prior to joining IVI, she served as core-researcher to survey small and medium business to construct business-database and investigate actual conditions of business in Gyeonggi province, Korea (1997-2000): survey design, monitoring process, statistical analysis, publishing report. She has a lecture experiences in an introduction of computer science and basic statistics (1992-1995). In more than 7 years at the IVI, she has served statistical supports to scientists, such as sample size calculation and statistical analysis in various epidemiologic or clinical study designs, and managed spatial and non-spatial data. She has also developed stand-alone or web-based computerized data management system to be appropriated in clinical trial. Her research interests include generalized linear modeling and hierarchical modeling for binary and count disease data, and particularly, spatial modeling of geographical reference data and disease mapping through Bayesian hierarchical approach.
e-mail : drkim@ivi.int |
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Shannon Lee Grahek, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Research Scientist
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Shannon Lee Grahek, Ph.D., M.P.H., joined IVI in June 2008 as an Associate Research Scientist in the Translation Research Division. The research interests of Dr. Grahek include reduction and prevention of infectious enteric disease and conduct of enteric vaccine field trials. Her Ph.D. was earned at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her M.P.H. at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. During her Ph.D. program she also completed the JHSPH certificate in Vaccine Science and Policy. Prior to joining IVI she worked with the Johns Hopkins Center for Immunization Research on projects including Phase II and III enteric vaccine safety and efficacy trials. She has also worked on public health field projects in Egypt and Guatemala.
e-mail : sgrahek@ivi.int |
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Binod Sah, MBBS, MS
Associate Research Scientist
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Binod Sah, MBBS, MS, received his Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from Nepal in 2001 and Master of Science in International Health Policy & Management (MS/IHPM) degree from The Heller School, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA, in 2007. Dr Sah is working as Associate Research Scientist in CHOVI (Cholera Vaccine Initiative) program at the IVI. Prior to joining IVI, he has worked as Research Associate on Dengue-Burden of Illness studies-coordinated by the Brandeis University and conducted in 3 Asian and 5 Latin American countries. His previous experience includes working on surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases, strengthening routine immunization, and conducting mass vaccination campaigns with WHO-Program for Immunization Preventable Diseases, Nepal for over four years. Dr Sah has also worked as a consultant with US Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-2) in Cambodia on several epidemiological studies.
e-mail : bsah@ivi.int |
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Paul Kilgore, M.D.,M.P.H.,
Research Scientist
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Paul
Kilgore, M.D., M.P.H, is a medical epidemiologist working as Senior Scientist in the Division of Translational Research at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) headquartered in Seoul, Korea. Since beginning work with the International Vaccine Institute in November 1998, Dr. Kilgore has collaborated with numerous public health scientists and clinicians to conduct population-based studies of Haemophilus influenza (Hib) type b, pneumococcus and other causes of bacterial meningitis in children of Indonesia, the Philippines, People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. These studies provided new disease burden data on bacterial meningitis that have directly informed policy-makers and heightened awareness of Hib and pneumococcal disease among public health leaders, pediatricians and microbiologists. Similarly, he has developed and collaborated on hospital- and community-based surveillance studies of rotavirus diarrhea in China, Korea, Mongolia, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Sri Lanka. Using data from these disease burden studies, the IVI Division of Translational Research is actively working to support national health agencies in countries across Asia to develop "investment cases" for the introduction of new infant and childhood vaccines. He serves as mentor and advisor to graduate students from a number of countries as well as an Adjunct faculty member in the Seoul National University School of Public Health where he contributes to the graduate course in international vaccinology. Additionally his ongoing research projects include studies of invasive pneumococcal disease, influenza, Hib and pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness, rotavirus disease burden and cost-of-illness, and rotavirus vaccine safety, immunogenicity and effectiveness.
e-mail : pkilgore@ivi.int |
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Sunghye Kim, M.D., MPH
Research Scientist
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Sunghye Kim, M.D., MPH joined the IVI as a Research Scientist for the project: Strengthening Surveillance and Epidemic Response Against Epidemic Meningitis in Niger.
She provides technical assistance in planning, implementation and monitoring of the epidemic meningitis control program in Niger.
Dr. Sunghye Kim completed her residency in internal medicine at the Asan Medical Center and MPH in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Prior to joining the IVI, she worked for the HIV Prevention and Treatment Program at the IRD research unit 174 in Thailand conducting HIV related clinical trials and managing the Global Fund program . She also has experience working on public health projects in other developing countries including the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization at the Lao PDR country office.
e-mail : sunghyekim@ivi.int |
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Mohammad Ali, Ph.D.
Sr. Scientific Analyst
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Mohammad
Ali, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Head of the Data Management, GIS, and Statistics unit, joined the IVI in March 2001 to conduct geographic research on vaccine and disease burden studies, and to develop and implement database management systems for the multi-centric studies. Dr. Ali obtained his degree of Doctor in Sciences in May 2000 from the Department of Geomatics, University of Liege, Belgium. His doctoral thesis involved geographical epidemiology of cholera. He is a Bangladeshi, and worked as the Head of the Geographic Systems Unit (GIS) Unit in the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) before joining the IVI. Dr. Ali spent 15 years of service at the ICDDR,B, and had acquired his expertise in the field of geographic research on health and population. His other expertise includes computer systems development and data management.
e-mail : mali@ivi.int
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Anil Kumar Bhola, MBBS, MPH
Associate Research Scientist
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Anil Kumar Bhola, MBBS, MPH, graduated from the Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India in 1996 with his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree. Following the rotational internship, he worked in different capacities; right from primary to tertiary health care levels in India, encompassing acute emergency care, neonatal care, school health, strengthening routine immunization and surveillance of vaccines-preventable diseases. Later, he gained his Master's degree in Public Administration from the Kurukshetra University in 2001, in India in 2001. In 2004, he further gained his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Glasgow, Scotland in U.K. He provided consultancy in the health sector reform areas in Kyrgyz Republic (2005) and India (2006-07). Prior to joining the IVI, he worked with MSF (Medecins sans Frontieres, or Doctors without Borders) -Switzerland in Mozambique (2008-09) as an epidemiologist for HIV/AIDS-TB care and treatment programme. Besides routine programme monitoring and evaluation, he led operational research studies and also actively contributed in the development of a national multi-sectoral response strategy for control of epidemic cholera in Mozambique. He is currently involved in translating vaccines research into public health practice through conducting and monitoring of trials and feasibility studies under the Cholera Vaccine Programme.
e-mail : akbhola@ivi.int
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Sergey Arakelov, Ph.D.,M.B.A.
Laboratory Coordinator
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Sergey Arakelov, Ph.D.,M.B.A., joined the IVI in 2010 as Laboratory Coordinator. Dr. Arakelov has a PhD in Virology and MS degree in Biology and Chemistry from Moscow Pedagogical University. He also has an MBA and is certified in Project Management. He started his career as a Research Associate at the Institute of Virology (Moscow, Russia) where he was responsible for the development of new diagnostic tests and conduct of clinical and epidemiological studies on viral hepatitis and AIDS. In 1987, he received a special Government Award for his achievements in science. Dr. Arakelov was a Research Scientist at New York University where he continued to work in the areas of virology and immunology and conducted studies on human antiviral immune response, murine B cell receptors, and human monoclonal antibodies. Dr. Arakelov also has extensive experience in the biotechnology industry in which he worked for companies such as Specialty Labs, Inc. (Research Scientist), MRL/Focus Technology, Inc. (Senior Researcher) and Pathway Diagnostics, Inc. (Director). His responsibilities included new assay development, conducting clinical trials, evaluation and implications of new proteomics technologies, leading collaborative research projects with pharmaceutical companies (GSK, Eli Lilly, Sanofi-Aventis), as well as supervision and training of research associates, quality assurance, technology licensure and transfer. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Arakelov was involved in the successful development and application of diagnostic tests for commercial reference laboratories such as West Nile Virus (outlicensed to Quest Diagnostics), Hepatitis Delta, Parvovirus B19 and fungal infections (two US patents issued). Finally, Dr. Arakelov has experience in international public health research. He twice served as a consulting Project Manager for the US Government (CDC/USAID Central Asia Region Program) for laboratory coordination, and he was a consulting Laboratory Specialist for an IVI project in Bangladesh.
e-mail : sarakelov@ivi.int
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Eunyoung Kim, M.B.A.
Head, Program Administration
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Ms.
Eunyoung Kim, M.B.A., Head, Program Administration,
joined IVI in April, 1996. A graduate of Seoul National University, she majored in English Language and Literature. Prior to joining IVI, she spent several years teaching English. She also worked briefly as a secretary at the UNDP Office in Seoul.
e-mail : eykim@ivi.int |
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Na Yoon Chang, M.S.
Scientific Data Analyst
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Ms. Nayoon Chang
e-mail : nychang@ivi.int |
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Nam Hee Kim, B.A.
Senior Administrative Assistant
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Nam Hee Kim
e-mail : nhkim@ivi.int |
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Sue Kyoung Jo, B.A.
Senior Administrative Assistant
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Sue Kyoung Jo
e-mail : skjo@ivi.int |
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Soo Young Kwon, B.A.
Administrative Assistant I
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Soo Young Kwon, B.A.
e-mail : sykwon@ivi.int |
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Young Ae You
Translational Research / Assistant Scientific Data Analyst
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Young Ae You
e-mail : yayou@ivi.int |
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Hyon Jin Jeon, B.A.
Adminisitrative Assistiant
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Hyon Jin Jeon, B.A.
e-mail : hjjeon@ivi.int |
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Mohammad Imran Khan, MBBS, MSc
Research Scientist
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Mohammad Imran Khan, MBBS, MSc
e-mail : imran@ivi.int |
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Deborah Gene Hong
Public Health Writer(Editor)
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Deborah Gene Hong
e-mail : dghong@ivi.int |
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Franciscus Konings, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
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Franciscus Konings, Ph.D.
e-mail : fkonings@ivi.int |
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Jayoung Kim
Administrative Assistant II
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Jayoung Kim
e-mail : jayoungkim@ivi.int |
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Mi Hwa Ka
Sr. Administrative Assistant
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Mi Hwa Ka
e-mail : mhka@ivi.int |
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Soyoon Chang
Administrative assistant I
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Soyoon Chang
e-mail : soyoonchang@ivi.int |
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Kyung Suk Lee
Administrative assistant I
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Kyung Suk Lee
e-mail : kslee@ivi.int |
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