Dewi Ismajani Puradiredja l BA, MSc, PhD l – also known as Jani – has a PhD in Demography and an MSc in Health, Population and Society, both from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). Her BA in Development and Indonesian Studies is from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

From 2004 to 2011 she worked with the HIV Epidemiology and Biostatistics Group in the Research Department of Infection and Population Health at the University College London (UCL) Medical School. She taught demography at the LSE for 2 years before becoming an ESRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

Since 2017 she is based at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) where – alongside her research at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology – she is the Head of the Interdisciplinary Academy of Competence & Education for Global Health (iACE Global Health) and the co-lead of the Centre for Education & Training.

She is also the tropEd representative for her Institute and currently in the Executive Committee of the tropEd Network for Education in International Health. She remains affiliated with LSHTM as a Distance Learning Tutor based at the Faculty of Public Health and Policy.