Brevet Colonel Sir Samuel Rickard Christophers was a British protozoologist and medical entomologist specialising in mosquitoes.
Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria,becoming the first British Nobel laureate,and the first born outside Europe. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes,and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a public research university in Bloomsbury,central London,and a member institution of the University of London that specialises in public health and tropical medicine.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI),which came into operation 1 April 2018,and brings together the UK's seven research councils,Innovate UK and Research England. UK Research and Innovation is answerable to,although politically independent from,the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy.
John Hutton Balfour was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany,first at the University of Glasgow in 1841,moving to the University of Edinburgh and also becoming the 7th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in 1845. He held these posts until his retirement in 1879. He was nicknamed Woody Fibre.
Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome &Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs in 1880,which is one of the four large companies to eventually merge to form GlaxoSmithKline. He left a large amount of capital for charitable work in his will,which was used to form the Wellcome Trust,one of the world's largest medical charities. He was a keen collector of medical artefacts which are now managed by the Science Museum,London,and a small selection of which are displayed at the Wellcome Collection.
Sir Patrick Manson was a Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology,and was a founder of the field of tropical medicine. He graduated from University of Aberdeen with degrees in Master of Surgery,Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Law. His medical career spanned mainland China,Hong Kong,Taiwan and London. He discovered that filariasis in humans is transmitted by mosquitoes. This is the foundation of modern tropical medicine,and he is recognized with an epithet "Father of Tropical Medicine". This also made him the first person to show pathogen transmission by a blood-feeding arthropod. His discovery directly invoked the mosquito-malaria theory,which became the foundation in malariology. He eventually became the first President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He founded the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese and the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine.
Alexander "Sandy" Messent Cairncross OBE is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has an interest in environmental interventions for disease control,including both technical issues and policy.
Peter George Smith CBE BSc DSc HonMFPHM FMedSci,is an eminent epidemiologist and Professor of Tropical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Jeremiah Noah Morris was a Scottish epidemiologist who established the importance of physical activity in preventing cardiovascular disease.
Polly Roy OBE is a professor and Chair of Virology at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She attended a number of schools which included Columbia University Medical School,Rutgers University,University of Alabama,and University of Oxford. In 2001 she became a part of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and,along with being the chair of Virology,is also the co-organiser of the medical microbiology course. The virus that she has dedicated most of her career to is Bluetongue disease that affects sheep and cattle. She became interested in this virus after attending a symposium and was intrigued by the fact that not much was known about the virus that was causing such a nasty and sometimes fatal disease.
Vikram Harshad Patel FMedSci is an Indian psychiatrist and researcher best known for his work on child development and mental disability in low-resource settings. He is the Co-Founder and former Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM),Co-Director of the Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions at the Public Health Foundation of India,and the Co-Founder of Sangath,an Indian NGO dedicated to research in the areas of child development,adolescent health and mental health. Since 2024,he has been the Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston,where he was previously the Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship in 2015. In April 2015,he was listed as one of the world's 100 most influential people by TIME magazine.
Robert Kirk (1905-1962) was a Scottish parasitologist and pathologist.
Sir Ian Alexander McGregor,was a Scottish malariologist.
Sir Nicholas Andrew Black is a British physician and health services researcher.
Elizabeth Lucy Corbett is a British epidemiologist who is Professor of Tropical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine. Her research investigates the regulation of tuberculosis in HIV prevalent populations and improving access to HIV self-testing.
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) is a British Government body that advises central government in emergencies. It is usually chaired by the United Kingdom's Chief Scientific Adviser. Specialists from academia and industry,along with experts from within government,make up the participation,which will vary depending on the emergency. SAGE gained public prominence for its role in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
Andrew Davidson,,was a Scottish physician who worked as a medical missionary,tropical disease researcher and medical facility administrator in Madagascar and Mauritius. He was an early advocate for the teaching of tropical medicine in British medical schools,and was the author of many publications,mostly related to aspects of tropical medicine.
Ahmed Mohamed El HassanFRCP FTWAS was a Sudanese professor of pathology.
Sir Malcolm Watson was a British pioneer malariologist who developed new methods to combat malaria in Malaya,and later went on to advise governments and industries in many countries on malaria prevention.
