Information

Membership Number: FCA3128

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Natural Sciences

Corresponding Email: ***fong@tropmedres.ac

Homepage(s): https://www.tropmedres.ac/team/mayfong-mayxay 

Present and Previous Positions

President, Lao University of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Tropical Medicine; Infectious Diseases; Malaria; Febrile Illnesses; Dengue; Rickettsial Infections; Japanese Encephalitis; Public Health

Professor Mayfong Mayxay is a leading physician-scientist in tropical medicine and infectious disease research in Laos. His work has been closely associated with the development of clinically grounded field research on malaria, febrile illness, and other infectious diseases in the Lao context. Official MORU and LOMWRU materials identify him as President of the Lao University of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health, and as a long-standing leader of field research in Laos through the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit. 

His research has been especially important in malaria treatment policy, the investigation of non-malarial fever, and the epidemiology of dengue, rickettsial disease, Japanese encephalitis, and related infections. According to the official MORU profile, his Wellcome-supported research on antimalarial treatment helped inform the change in Lao national policy for uncomplicated falciparum malaria treatment from chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to artemisinin-based combination therapies in 2005. His work therefore stands at the intersection of clinical medicine, infectious disease epidemiology, and public health policy. What distinguishes Professor Mayxay’s scholarship is its sustained connection between laboratory and clinical knowledge, field investigation in provincial and rural settings, and the practical needs of national health systems. His research has contributed both to the scientific understanding of fever and infectious disease in Laos and to the strengthening of research capacity and evidence-based medicine in the country.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Recipient, Hitachi Global Foundation Asia Innovation Award.
Member of Parliament, Lao National Assembly (9th legislature).
Chairman / President, Lao One Health University Network (LAOHUN).
President, Lao Infectious Disease Society (LIDS).
Visiting Professor in Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford.
Visiting Professor in Public Health, National University of Singapore.

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q3oyJMMAAAAJ 

Other Information

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