Dr Rhea Longley, PhD
WEHI
Dr Rhea Longley is a Laboratory Head in the Infection and Global Health Division at WEHI, currently supported by Viertel Senior Medical Research and veski FAIR Fellowships. She received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Rhea’s research interest lies in the immune response to infectious diseases of global health concern, with a particular focus on malaria. She utilises new knowledge on the immune response to design novel tools for disease elimination, including new surveillance approaches and vaccine design. Rhea has an emerging interest in better understand how both sex and gender impact immune responses to infectious diseases, to ensure that immuno-based tools can serve the entire population at need. Rhea’s research is built upon strong collaborations in numerous malaria-endemic countries, including Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia.
