Maya Ronse is pursuing her doctoral research at the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD is supervised by Constance Schultsz, with Bouke de Jong and Koen Peeters (Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp) as co-promoters. Her doctoral research focuses on leprosy and socio-spatial relations, building on her recent work as lead researcher in an interdisciplinary study in the Comoros. That study focused on integrating social network analysis with spatial and molecular epidemiology data to improve leprosy prevention strategies.

Over the past decade that she has been based at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Maya has conducted ethnographic, formative, mixed-methods and transdisciplinary research across multiple countries – including the Comoros, Madagascar, Guinea, Cameroon, Vietnam, Papua (Indonesia), and Belgium. Her projects have examined perceptions of health and illness, ethics, stigma, medicine use, and socio-cultural factors affecting the effectiveness of intervention for neglected tropical diseases (leprosy and onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy), Ebola virus disease, Covid-19, malaria, and antibiotic resistance. She also teaches qualitative research methods and social science in outbreak investigation and research.