Malen Chan

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Student (MAE)

Biography

Malen is a Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) scholar, in the 2022-23 cohort, undertaking a placement in Epidemiology and Public Health unit at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC), Cambodia.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Prior to undertaking the MAE, she has worked for almost 15 years at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC). She has coordinated several field activities involving avian influenza seroprevalence in live bird market workers, surveillance of influenza in poultry and swine, and running an international testing lab for COVID-19 as well as on data management of three Rabies Prevention Centers.

 

Research

Research interests

  • Infectious and non-infectious diseases 

  • Surveillance and studies on virological diseses, such as avian influenza, rabies, dengue, chikunguya and COVID-19.

Groups

Publications

  1. Tarantola A, Ly S, Chan M, In S, Peng Y, Hing C, Taing CN, Phoen C, Ly S, Cauchemez S, Buchy P, Dussart P, Bourhy H, Mary JY. Intradermal rabies post-exposure prophylaxis can be abridged with no measurable impact on clinical outcome in Cambodia, 2003-2014. Vaccine. 2018 Nov 16. pii:
    S0264-410X(18)31420-8. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.10.054. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30454946.

  2. Tarantola A, Blanchi S, Cappelle J, Ly S, Chan M, In S, Peng Y, Hing C, Taing CN, Ly S, Bourhy H, Buchy P, Dussart P, Mary JY. Rabies Postexposure Prophylaxis Noncompletion After Dog Bites: Estimating the Unseen to Meet the Needs of the Underserved. Am J Epidemiol. 2018 Feb 1;187(2):306-315. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwx234. PubMed PMID: 29020186.
     

  3. Auerswald H, Boussioux C, In S, Mao S, Ong S, Huy R, Leang R, Chan M, Duong V, Ly S, Tarantola A, Dussart P. Broad and long-lasting immune protection against various Chikungunya genotypes demonstrated by participants in a cross-sectional study in a Cambodian rural community. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2018 Feb 7;7(1):13. doi: 10.1038/s41426-017-0010-0. PubMed PMID: 29410416; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5837154.

  4. Ly S, Horwood P, Chan M, Rith S, Sorn S, Oeung K, Nguon K, Chan S, Y P, Parry A, Tsuyuoka R, Ly S, Richner B, Laurent D, Vong S, Dussart P, Buchy P, Tarantola A. Seroprevalence and Transmission of Human Influenza A(H5N1) Virus before and after Virus Reassortment, Cambodia, 2006-2014. Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Feb;23(2):300-303. doi: 10.3201/eid2302.161232. PubMed PMID: 28098551; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5324818.