Profile
Temmy joined the Global Health Centre team to be part of the SNF project New Business Models on Innovation and Global Access to Medicines, led by Suerie Moon. This project aims to deepen understanding of the political, economic, scientific and organisational factors required to implement new business models of medicines R&D that will deliver both innovation and globally affordable medicines.
Prior to this, Temmy was a Marie-Sklodowska Curie fellow based at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium conducting her doctoral studies on access to care for leishmaniasis in Africa. Temmy is trained as a physician (2003) with a public health master in disease control (2010) and a PhD in Translational Medicine and International Health from the University of Barcelona (2019). Her experience include: more than 13 years in the field with Médecins Sans Frontières (Indonesia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, India) and a Public Health Professional Fellow in WHO Regional Office for South East Asia. She is keen to expand her research area in neglected disease to further improve access to care for those who are in need, especially in innovation and R&D space.
Selected publications
- Sunyoto T, Potet J, den Boer M, et al (2019) Exploring global and country-level barriers to an effective supply of leishmaniasis medicines and diagnostics in eastern Africa: a qualitative study, BMJ Open.
- Sunyoto T, Potet J, Boelaert M. (2018) Why miltefosine—a life-saving drug for leishmaniasis—is unavailable to people who need it the most, BMJ Global Health.
- Sunyoto T, Adam GK, et al (2018) "Kala-Azar is a Dishonest Disease": Community Perspectives on Access Barriers to Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-Azar) Diagnosis and Care in Southern Gadarif, Sudan, Am J Trop Med Hyg.
- Sunyoto T, Potet J, Boelaert M (2017) Visceral leishmaniasis in Somalia: A review of epidemiology and access to care, PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(3).
- Boelaert M, Verdonck K, Menten J, Sunyoto T, van Griensven J, Chappuis F, Rijal S. (2014) Rapid tests for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in patients with suspected disease, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
- Sunyoto T et al. (2014) Providing emergency care and assessing a patient triage system in a referral hospital in Somaliland: a cross-sectional study, BMC Health Services Research.
- Bhatia R, Dash AP, Sunyoto T (2013) Changing epidemiology of dengue in South-East Asia, WHO South-East Asia J Public Health.