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Khayriyyah (Kye) began her academic research in epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection stemming from an internship at the World Health Organization in Geneva. Subsequently, she developed an interest in tuberculosis, which led to studies on development of diagnostic biomarkers of tuberculosis and mucosal infections in her postgraduate training under supervision of Associate Professors David Anderson and Rosemary Ffrench.
Her evolving research interests span viral hepatitis (particularly hepatitis C virus), immunological biomarkers of mucosal infections, antigenic properties of mycobacteria (particularly M. tuberculosis complex), novel antimicrobial strategies against TB and methicillin-resistant S.aureus, and more recently, the development of cross-species diagnostic markers for zoonotic and transboundary animal diseases.
As the winner of FameLab International 2018, the world’s oldest science communication competition, she is actively engaged in efforts for capacity building in science communication in Malaysia.
She leads the development of a training-of-trainers Malaysian Science Communication Module and is a regular columnist for Malaysian daily The Star, at “Science, She Wrote” where she writes on scientific and social developments related to COVID-19.
She is a senior lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, and currently on secondment at Burnet’s Global Health Diagnostics Development Laboratory.