Ms Naima Nasir

Naima Nasir is from Nigeria. She has a background in Pharmacy and an MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine from the University of Oxford. She has over eight years of experience working with public health programs providing treatment and support to people living with HIV/AIDs, TB and Malaria, as well as public health research.

As a MeVacP research fellow, she focused on the characterisation of the diversity of the capsule locus in Streptococcus agalactiae (Group Strep B, GBS), a significant cause of meningitis in infants and an important pathogen in agriculture. She was also involved in a global literature review of GBS whole genome sequence (WGS) data and contributed to the curation of GBS WGS on the PubMLST website.

Her research interests are in global health systems and policy research, with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health. She currently serves as Training Coordinator for the Oxford COVID-19 International Modelling Consortium (CoMo).