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Ruan Spies

Ruan Spies

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ruan.spies@bnc.ox.ac.uk

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Ruan Spies

DPhil Student

EDUCATION

  • MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology, University of Oxford 2023
  • Diploma in HIV Management, Colleges of Medicine of South Africa 2022
  • Medicine (MBChB), University of Cape Town 2019

 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  • Community Service Medical Officer (Senior House Officer), New Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa  Jan 2022– Oct 2022
  • Intern Medical Doctor (Foundation Year equivalent), Livingstone Hospital Complex, Gqeberha, South Africa   Jan 2020 – Dec 2021

THESIS

  • How (and why) do people in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam get drug-resistant tuberculosis?
    People with drug-resistant TB can have acquired their disease in one of two ways: from others through direct transmission or through the selection of drug resistance mutations while receiving first-line TB therapy. Empiric evidence describing the relative contributions of each mechanism to the current burden of drug-resistant in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam is lacking.
    My project uses Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome sequencing to describe TB transmission in Ho Chi Minh City and to estimate the relative contributions of transmitted and selected resistance to drug-resistant TB in the city. This may have important implications for public health TB control measures. I am supported by a Rhodes Scholarship.