Sophie Yacoub

Sophie is the head of the Dengue Research Group at OUCRU-Vietnam, part of the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. She is a Physician in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine and holds an honorary Consultant appointment at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust in the UK. She has a PhD from Imperial College London and an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Sophie is currently leading a large translational program of dengue research, focusing on pathogenesis studies, clinical trials of new therapeutics, and innovative technology centered on non-invasive monitoring systems. The group also works on mosquito-viral transmission dynamics to facilitate strategies for disease prevention. The overall aim of the group is to improve the management and clinical outcomes of patients with dengue on a national and global level.