Evaluating the true accuracy of diagnostic tests for scrub typhus using Bayesian latent class models

Cherry is undertaking her Fellowship at the Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme in Bangkok. She aims to evaluate the true accuracy of diagnostic tests for scrub typhus using Bayesian latent class models. She will also evaluate how factors including fever days and antibody treatment before hospital admission would influence the accuracy of the diagnostic tests for scrub typhus. At the end of this project, Cherry hopes to suggest a new and more effective combination of diagnostic tests for clinical settings in areas where scrub typhus is endemic.

This grant was awarded under the scheme's previous name of Master's Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine.