Biographical Information:   

Dr. Jingky Lozano-Kühne completed an MSc in Public Health (Biostatistics) and a PhD in Applied Statistics and Empirical Methods (Genetic Epidemiology). She was a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’s research fellow at the Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (Germany) in the Pharmacogenomics in Oncology Postgraduate Training Program. In addition to her training in Germany, she completed postgraduate courses in Finland and the United Kingdom in statistical genetics, health economics and online teaching.

Dr. Lozano-Kühne's research experience encompasses work from the bench to the community. She started her career in research in 1993 and has worked with government and academic institutions, medical centres, pharmaceutical companies and international organizations (e.g. WHO, World Bank-ILO, Save the Children, RTI) in different capacities. In the 90s, she worked for the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Philippines as a Science Research Specialist and was involved in the analysis of HIV/AIDS research data. She was also involved in epidemiological surveillance, evaluation of HIV test kits and training of health researchers and paramedics in HIV screening and confirmatory testing. Afterwards, she worked as a research supervisor and later established a start-up research consultancy conducting projects for pharmaceutical companies. Before pursuing postgraduate studies, she represented the Philippines in 1996 as one of the Youth Ambassadors to the "23rd Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program" and in 2003 as a delegate to the "21st Century Renaissance Youth Leaders Invitation Program" in Japan. She joined the academe in 2001 as a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the College of Public Health, University of the Philippines (UP) Manila. She also conducted online courses and designed the first fully-online Biostatistics course for graduate students at the UP Open University. She moved to Europe in 2005 to pursue her PhD and taught in international study programs while doing her studies and working as a scientist (Wissenschafliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. After her PhD, she worked as a Senior Researcher at the Department of Population Health, University of Oxford (United Kingdom). She led the assessment of the country health information profiles in the Health Information, Evidence and Research Unit of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific and co-directed a mixed-method, nationwide survey for Save the Children in the Solomon Islands. She also evaluated as independent consultant and technical expert various international projects including projects sponsored by the Philippine-California Advanced Research Institutes and the USAID at different universities in the Philippines, University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC San Francisco and UC Davis. She has been involved in numerous research grants either as main investigator, co-investigator, biostatistician or named researcher. From 2018 to 2022, she was responsible for the clinical trials analysis and biostatistical remit of the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre at Imperial College London. She is currently a Lecturer in Biostatistics at the Population Health Sciences Institute of Newcastle University in the UK.

Dr. Lozano-Kühne was a Balik Scientist Program awardee by the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, Department of Science and Technology. She was also an adjunct faculty at the University of the Philippines and an ex-officio of the Forum für Internationale Gesundheit (foring - Forum for International Health), Germany. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society for Public Health in the United Kingdon.