Rapeephan Maude

Dr Rapeephan Maude is a Research Physician in the Epidemiology Department at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) and a lecturer in the Division of Infectious diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. With an interest in the causes of febrile illnesses in South and Southeast Asia, malaria, enteric fever, melioidosis, rickettsial diseases and HIV, Dr Maude's research combines randomised controlled trials, clinical studies and epidemiology of infectious diseases and tropical medicine.

A graduate of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Dr Maude first worked as a physician in Sappasitthiprasong and Buntarik hospital in Ubon Ratchathani, northeastern Thailand. She joined MORU in 2007, where she worked until 2012, first as a research physician and then as director of MORU Ubon Ratchathani Research Unit. Subsequently, she was awarded a Master's Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine from the Wellcome Trust of Great Britain. She completed an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health and DTM&H at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. From 2012 to 2017, Dr Maude completed a Residency in Internal Medicine at Saint Vincent Hospital and a Clinical Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center in Massachusetts, USA.