Assistant Clinical Investigator, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research
Science Attaché, U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh and NIAID ICER CAMBODIA
Specialty(s): Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine Provides direct clinical care to patients at NIH Clinical Center
Education:
M.D., Emory University School of Medicine
M.Sc., Harvard School of Public Health
Biography
Dr. Manning earned her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and her Master of Science in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. She completed the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital while a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. From 2008 to 2015, she lived and worked in Africa and Southeast Asia as part of her medical and scientific training in international clinical research. In 2015, she became an Infectious Diseases fellow under the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She moved to NIAID’s Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research in Cambodia in 2017 to expand the clinical research program and serve as NIAID Science Attaché at the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh. In 2019, she was awarded a place in the NIAID Transition Program in Clinical Research to continue her work in vector-borne disease epidemiology and host immune responses to vector saliva.
She is currently an assistant clinical investigator residing full-time in Cambodia where she leads NIAID's collaborative field sites and laboratories, known as the International Center of Excellence in Research (ICER Cambodia), devoted to clinical and translational research of vector-borne diseases, like dengue and multi-drug resistant malaria, as well as emerging pathogens.