Louise Thwaites

Louise is a clinical researcher and member of the Emerging Infections group at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and an associate professor in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford. Louise is a board member of the Global Sepsis Alliance and leads the guidelines and policy working group of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance.

Her research focuses on the care of critically ill patients in resource-restricted settings. This includes conducting large randomized controlled trials of magnesium sulfate and intrathecal tetanus antitoxin in tetanus. More broadly, she is interested in ways of improving the care of critically ill patients using new technologies and forging new collaborations to achieve this. Her current role involves developing new devices and technologies for use in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of diseases such as tetanus, sepsis, and dengue.