Fatima Aysha Hussain

Fatima Aysha Hussain is a Research Scientist at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard since May 2020, focusing on vaginal microbiome research related to women's sexual and reproductive health. Hussain has a robust academic background, including a Ph.D. in Environmental Microbiology and an M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, respectively. Previous positions include Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Graduate Resident Tutor at MIT, Consultant at AoBiome, and Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University. Hussain's research interests encompass microbial ecology, virology, bacteria-phage interactions, and environmental organic chemistry.