Imogen Simms

Imogen Simms is an infectious disease physician at a university tropical medicine institute, where she divides her schedule between seeing patients in clinic and investigating parasitic transmission in the laboratory. She earned her medical degree and an undergraduate degree in microbiology, later completing a PhD in parasitology at Tulane University. Her research centers on the biology of vector-borne pathogens and local transmission patterns, building on field investigations she conducted on insect-transmitted infections across South America and Africa. In the lab, Simms oversees diagnostic testing assays and studies drug resistance mechanisms in blood parasites, collaborating with global surveillance networks to monitor regional disease clusters.