OSUN Faculty

Soe Yu Naing

Soe Yu Naing is a public health professional with more than ten years of experience in public health, project management, and scientific research. He received an international MSc in Infectious Diseases and One Health (IDOH) from the Université de Tours (France), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), and the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom). He is a product of liberal arts education and has a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from Earlham College in the United States. Later, he joined the University of Pennsylvania to work on research toward HIV cure using RNA-based approaches and novel CAR-T cell immunotherapy. At UPenn, he coordinated clinical trials for HIV, Hepatitis, Ebola, and Zika vaccines. Currently, he is a scientific researcher at the Biomolecular Health Sciences department at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His work mainly focuses on the use of Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS) in medical microbiology, the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and molecular epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases. He is working on his PhD thesis on a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary project titled "Impact of reducing colistin use on colistin resistance in humans and poultry in Indonesia (COINCIDE)" that takes place in Indonesia in collaboration with research partners from Belgium, Canada, Indonesia, and the Netherlands. In addition, he works with the World Health Organization (WHO) to support global health policy. He is also a visiting faculty at Parami University in Myanmar, teaching courses on research methods, infectious diseases, and One Health. In his free time, he writes short stories and podcast scripts for Burmese audiences and often talks about sex to break the taboo around sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Myanmar.