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Freya J. I. Fowkes

Freya J. I. Fowkes

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Freya J. I. Fowkes is affiliated with the Burnet Institute in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on public health and infectious diseases. Their research spans various subfields including public health, environmental and occupational health; pediatrics, perinatology and child health; immunology; parasitology; and nutrition and dietetics.

Their scholarly work focuses primarily on malaria and related infectious diseases, investigating epidemiology, control strategies, immunity, and the broader impacts on global maternal and child health. Several major topics have been central to their research:

  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Travel-related health issues
  • Complement system in diseases
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods

Freya J. I. Fowkes has contributed to numerous scientific papers, highlighting a range of public health and infectious disease challenges. Significant recent publications include:

  • Global and regional prevalence, burden, and risk factors for carotid atherosclerosis: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and modelling study (2020) in The Lancet Global Health
  • Identifying and combating the impacts of COVID-19 on malaria (2020) in BMC Medicine
  • Pregnancy-specific malarial immunity and risk of malaria in pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: a systematic review (2020) in BMC Medicine
  • Multifunctional Antibodies Are Induced by the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine and Associated With Protection in a Phase 1/2a Trial (2020) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Risk factors and knowledge associated with high unintended pregnancy rates and low family planning use among pregnant women in Papua New Guinea (2021) in Scientific Reports

Their frequent collaborators include Paul A. Agius, Win Han Oo, James G. Beeson, J. A. Simpson, and Julia C. Cutts, with whom they have co-authored multiple publications.

Freya J. I. Fowkes publishes regularly in journals such as Malaria Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMC Medicine, Research Square, and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national prevalence and risk factors for peripheral artery disease in 2015: an updated systematic review and analysis.

    Peige Song;Diana Rudan;Yajie Zhu;Freya J I Fowkes

  • Global and regional prevalence, burden, and risk factors for carotid atherosclerosis: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and modelling study.

    Peige Song;Peige Song;Zhe Fang;Hanyu Wang;Yutong Cai

  • Peripheral artery disease: epidemiology and global perspectives

    F. Gerry R. Fowkes;Victor Aboyans;Freya J. I. Fowkes;Mary M. McDermott

  • Incidence of diagnosed deep vein thrombosis in the general population: systematic review.

    F.J.I. Fowkes;J.F. Price;F.G.R. Fowkes

  • The Relationship between Anti-merozoite Antibodies and Incidence of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Freya J. I. Fowkes;Jack S. Richards;Jack S. Richards;Julie A. Simpson;James G. Beeson

  • Merozoite surface proteins in red blood cell invasion, immunity and vaccines against malaria

    James G. Beeson;James G. Beeson;James G. Beeson;Damien R. Drew;Michelle J. Boyle;Gaoqian Feng

  • Revealing the Sequence and Resulting Cellular Morphology of Receptor-Ligand Interactions during Plasmodium falciparum Invasion of Erythrocytes

    Greta E Weiss;Paul R Gilson;Tana Taechalertpaisarn;Wai-Hong Tham

  • Identification and Prioritization of Merozoite Antigens as Targets of Protective Human Immunity to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria for Vaccine and Biomarker Development

    Jack Richards;Thangavelu U Arumugam;Linda Reiling;Julie Healer

  • Targets of antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes in malaria immunity

    Jo-anne Chan;Jo-anne Chan;Jo-anne Chan;Katherine B Howell;Linda Reiling;Linda Reiling;Ricardo Ataide

  • Association between Naturally Acquired Antibodies to Erythrocyte-Binding Antigens of Plasmodium falciparum and Protection from Malaria and High-Density Parasitemia

    Jack S. Richards;Danielle I. Stanisic;Danielle I. Stanisic;Freya J. I. Fowkes;Livingstone Tavul

  • Surface antigens of Plasmodium falciparum -infected erythrocytes as immune targets and malaria vaccine candidates

    Jo‑Anne Chan;Freya J. I. Fowkes;James G. Beeson

  • Inhibition of placental mTOR signaling provides a link between placental malaria and reduced birthweight

    Kris Genelyn Dimasuay;Kris Genelyn Dimasuay;Elizabeth H. Aitken;Fredrick Rosario;Madi Njie

  • Acquisition of Antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum Merozoites and Malaria Immunity in Young Children and the Influence of Age, Force of Infection, and Magnitude of Response

    Danielle I. Stanisic;Freya J. I. Fowkes;Melanie Koinari;Sarah Javati

  • Host erythrocyte polymorphisms and exposure to Plasmodium falciparum in Papua New Guinea

    Freya J.I. Fowkes;Freya J.I. Fowkes;Pascal Michon;Lynn Pilling;Ruth M. Ripley

  • Bypass surgery for chronic lower limb ischaemia.

    Freya Fowkes;Gillian C Leng

  • Quantification of the association between malaria in pregnancy and stillbirth: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Kerryn A Moore;Kerryn A Moore;Julie A Simpson;Michelle J L Scoullar;Michelle J L Scoullar;Rose McGready;Rose McGready

  • Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality

    Marcel Tanner;Marcel Tanner;Brian Greenwood;Christopher J. M. Whitty;Evelyn K. Ansah

  • The Stability and Complexity of Antibody Responses to the Major Surface Antigen of Plasmodium falciparum Are Associated with Age in a Malaria Endemic Area

    Alyssa E. Barry;Alyssa E. Barry;Angela Trieu;Freya J. I. Fowkes;Jozelyn Pablo

  • A phase 1 trial of MSP2-C1, a blood-stage malaria vaccine containing 2 isoforms of MSP2 formulated with Montanide® ISA 720.

    James S. McCarthy;Joanne Marjason;Suzanne Elliott;Paul Fahey

  • Identifying and combating the impacts of COVID-19 on malaria.

    Stephen J. Rogerson;James G. Beeson;Moses Laman;Jeanne Rini Poespoprodjo

  • Acquisition of Growth-Inhibitory Antibodies against Blood-Stage Plasmodium falciparum

    Fiona J. McCallum;Kristina E. M. Persson;Cleopatra K. Mugyenyi;Freya J. I. Fowkes

  • IgM in human immunity to Plasmodium falciparum malaria

    M. J. Boyle;M. J. Boyle;J. A. Chan;I. Handayuni;L. Reiling

  • New Insights into Acquisition, Boosting, and Longevity of Immunity to Malaria in Pregnant Women

    Freya J.I. Fowkes;Freya J.I. Fowkes;Freya J.I. Fowkes;Rose McGready;Rose McGready;Nadia J. Cross;Nadia J. Cross;Mirja Hommel;Mirja Hommel

Frequent Co-Authors

James G. Beeson
James G. Beeson Burnet Institute
Julie A. Simpson
Julie A. Simpson University of Melbourne
Jack S. Richards
Jack S. Richards ZiP Diagnostics
Ivo Mueller
Ivo Mueller Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
François Nosten
François Nosten MORU Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
Rose McGready
Rose McGready Mahidol University
Peter Siba
Peter Siba Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
Stephen J. Rogerson
Stephen J. Rogerson University of Melbourne
Brendan S. Crabb
Brendan S. Crabb Monash University
Karen P. Day
Karen P. Day University of Melbourne

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