Sydney is a Senior Research Study Coordinator for the UCSF Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI). In this role, Sydney supports the coordination of a clinical trial in Iquitos, Peru called FLAME (FocaL mass drug Administration for vivax Malaria Elimination). She is responsible for monitoring project data collection, developing trial documentation, complying with regulatory requirements, and assisting with data analysis for publication. She is leading a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine if focal mass drug administration is more cost-effective than standard of care. Sydney is passionate about working to reduce the burden of infectious diseases worldwide in a sustainable and equitable manner and has served on global health equity committees throughout her time at UCSF.

Prior to this role, Sydney studied household respiratory virus transmission and interned as an Infection Preventionist at the University of Michigan. She also conducted HIV evolution research for two years at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center using a novel CRISPR screen technique to identify HIV restriction factors.

Sydney is a DrPH student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Global Health and Policy Evaluation concentration. She holds an MPH in Global Health Epidemiology from the University of Michigan and a BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Spanish from The College of Wooster.