Bryanna Ribeiro Mesquita is a Master’s student in Clinical Research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She earned her undergraduate degree in Biology from Dominican University of California, where she spent two years conducting malaria research in Dr. Roland Cooper’s laboratory, studying antimalarial drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. Her laboratory research sparked her interest in epidemiology and clinical research, particularly in malaria and infectious diseases. At MEI, Bryanna is contributing to the FLAME study while developing her interests in malaria epidemiology and elimination research.