Elizabeth A Ashley

Elizabeth Ashley is a British physician who is Director of the Laos-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) in Laos. She specialises in infectious diseases and medical microbiology and virology. She is an associate editor for the Malaria Journal and serves on the Council of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

Early life and education Ashley grew up in Croydon. She attended a comprehensive school, where she specialised in mathematics, science and French. She became interested in medicine as a teenager, and trained as a physician in London. She completed an intercalated degree in sociology. She worked under the supervision of Nick White and Francois Nosten. She worked as a clinician in Paris and London. The research collaboration involves almost 100 scientists, and studies infectious diseases in Vientiane.

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