Dr Bronwyn MacInnis is associate director of Malaria and Viral Genomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She works to leverage and integrate the unique expertise and resources of these institutions to facilitate innovative infectious disease genomics research and its practical application to global health. Her efforts involve developing projects and partnerships to sequence and analyze the genomes of malaria parasites and viruses collected from affected patients to understand disease dynamics, transmission, and evolution, and to build field-deployable genomic tools for improved disease surveillance and diagnostics. Dr MacInnis also develops training programs to help build capacity for genomics research in lower resource settings and works with the World Health Organization to integrate genomic data into operational outbreak control frameworks.

Prior to joining the Broad Institute, she was senior scientific program manager for Malaria at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom, where she co-led the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network, a global scientific data sharing community aimed at translating genome science into tools for malaria elimination. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Alberta in Canada and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University.