Dr. Jaishree Raman is a molecular biologist with a strong interest in malaria and public health. Jaishree currently heads the Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa. She oversees the South African National Surveillance Programme for Antimalarial Drug and Diagnostic Resistance Monitoring, chairs the case management sub-committee of the South African Malaria Elimination Committee, and has developed and delivered malaria case management capacity for malaria programme staff. She is a member of several regional networks, such as the Elimination 8 and Pathogen Genomics Diversity Network Africa, that are aiming to strengthen malaria genomic and bioinformatics capacity across Africa. Jaishree is also a mentor on the recently launched Pan-African Malaria Control Association (PAMCA) LiftHerUp initiative, which is focussing on increasing African women leaders in science, with a major focus on vector-borne diseases.