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Dr. Nerges Mistry is a Director and Trustee of The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai and The Foundation for Research in Community Health, Pune. A microbiologist and immunologist by training from the University of Mumbai and The University of Birmingham, U.K, Dr. Mistry’s work encompasses infectious diseases with a recent focus on AMR stewardship, TB transmission, infection control and nutritional approaches to engender better outcomes for patients. She has been involved in studying TB patient pathways with reference to private sector engagements in Mumbai and Patna.
Dr. Nerges Mistry and her team recently developed a mask-based aerosol capture method for COVID-19 to understand viral transmission and are currently engaged in
(i) designing cost-effective measures of pooled sampling for community screening
(ii) Use of Sars COVID genomics to explore virus pathogenesis
(iii) Waste water surveillance for COVID-19; AMR genes
Dr. Mistry has over 112 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has been a principal investigator of over 40 major projects. She serves as an Expert on the Global Coalition Against Tuberculosis (GCAT), is an Advisor to the TB PPM Learning Network and also a member of the National Technical Expert Group on Diagnosis of TB under NTEP.
