Kyaw Zay Ya is a Research Fellow at the Global Antibiotic Policy Initiative (GAPi), based within the Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection and the Antibiotic Policy Group at the School of Health and Medical Sciences. He is actively involved in a range of research activities focused on antibiotic use and resistance. His primary responsibilities include data analysis for a large-scale GAPi project aimed at identifying optimal antibiotic exposure targets and designing effective interventions.

Kyaw is a medical doctor and health system researcher with over a decade of experience, particularly in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), artemisinin-resistant malaria, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). His work integrates health systems research, health economics, and public health programme management—especially within low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). He has worked across diverse settings, including Myanmar, Sweden, Switzerland, and Singapore.

He holds a PhD (Dr. sc. med.) in Epidemiology and Public Health from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the University of Basel, Switzerland. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health Sciences, specialising in Health Economics, Policy, and Management, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He completed his medical degree (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) at the University of Medicine I, Yangon, Myanmar.