Maike Lamshöft obtained her MSc in Public Health at Charité Berlin and has worked as an infectious disease epidemiologist and counselor before joining the Bernhard Nocht Institute in 2015 as a project manager in several multi-country research projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Current research interests are the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of febrile and diarrhoeal illnesses in children in Ghana and Tanzania, antimicrobial resistance, and intervention trials.