Professor Karen Day
BSc, PhD
Emeritus Fellow
Professor Karen Day is a distinguished malaria researcher dedicated to the improvement of global health.
Following her postdoctoral research, Professor Day held academic positions in molecular epidemiology at Imperial College, London and in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. She was appointed a Fellow of Hertford College in 1993, becoming one of the few women ‘dons’ in science at Oxford. She was a Founding Partner of both the Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease (WTCEID) and the interdisciplinary Peter Medawar Pathogen Evolution Research Centre at Oxford.
After leaving Oxford in 2004, she held senior leadership positions at New York University from 2004 to 2013. She was the Dean of Science at University of Melbourne from 2014 to 2019. She was made Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in 2018 and a Member of the Order of Australia AM in 2020 for contributions to science and global health. She remains an active malaria researcher at University of Melbourne.