Dr Ruby Siddiqui

Dr Ruby Siddiqui (UNICEF) is an Epidemiologist within the Integrated Outbreak Analytics Team in UNICEF. Ruby has extensive experience in natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies, international public health, medical research and infectious disease modelling. She has more than 10 years’ field experience with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), investigating outbreaks of infectious diseases such as recurrent measles outbreaks in DRC, emerging hepatitis E outbreaks in Uganda and South Sudan and the unprecedented diphtheria outbreak amongst the Rohingya in Bangladesh; responding to natural disasters such as the Haiti earthquake and Philippines typhoon; and performing field research such as health-seeking behaviour for sexual violence in India and Haiti; and developing algorithms to detect the last-remaining Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) foci. Ruby has a Masters in Public Health in Developing Countries and a PhD in Immunology and Genetics, both from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.