Dr Alessandra Natale, Research Coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières

After a PhD in Microbial Ecology at the University of Warwick, UK, I was post-doc at the University of Cambridge working on R&D diagnostics. I then obtained an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with a thesis on WHONET. At Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital, London, I worked on community transmission of antimicrobial resistant bacteria. In 2018 I joined MSF Mini-Lab group as Research Coordinator focusing on the evaluation studies of the diagnostic tests integrated in the prototype of the Mini-Lab, and of its evaluation in MSF fields.