{"id":1068,"date":"2022-06-07T10:38:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T10:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgpindia.com\/fend\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:20:04","slug":"nick-menzies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fend-tb.org\/staging\/9960\/nick-menzies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Menzies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Nicolas Menzies<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of Global Health, and part of the core faculty of the Harvard Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on using decision science, economic evaluation, and mathematical modelling methods to understand the consequences of policies to combat major infectious diseases and help design effective disease control programs when resources are limited.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Menzies is an expert on country-level TB modelling and its impact on policy decisions. He is on the Steering Committee of the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium and a member of the Modelling Guidance Group of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. His work also involves close collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of TB Elimination for US-based TB research, as well as the Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization. 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She then joined Dr. Clifford Harding at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) where she began studying how Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) subverts the immune response. Dr. Ramachandra continued her career at CWRU, and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, conducted basic and translational research on the immune responses to Mtb and influenza. Dr. Ramachandra came to the NIH in 2010 as a Scientific Review Officer at NIAID. She subsequently moved to the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation (DAIT) as a Program Officer and served as the programmatic point of contact for TB research at DAIT. 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