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.
Tropical medicine is an interdisciplinary branch of medicine that deals with health issues that occur uniquely,are more widespread,or are more difficult to control in tropical and subtropical regions.
Sir Brian Mellor Greenwood,CBE,FRCP,FRS is a British physician,biomedical research scientist,academic,and recipient of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize.
Dame Anne Jane Mills,is a British authority on health economics. She is Deputy Director and Provost and Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Julie Makani is a Tanzanian medical researcher. From 2014 she is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS). Also a visiting fellow and consultant to the Nuffield Department of Medicine,University of Oxford,she is based in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania. In 2011,she received the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her work with sickle cell disease.
Salim S. Abdool Karim,MBChB,MMed,MS(Epi),FFPHM,FFPath (Virol),DipData,PhD,DSc(hc) is a South African public health physician,epidemiologist and virologist who has played a leading role in the AIDS and COVID-19 pandemic. His scientific contributions have impacted the landscape of HIV prevention and treatment,saving thousands of lives
Adrianus Mattheus Dondorp is a Dutch intensivist,infectious diseases physician,and head of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok. He is best known for his research in severe falciparum malaria,a disease that requires intensive care in hospital. He chairs the World Health Organization Technical Expert Group on antimalarial medication drug resistance and containment.
Faith Hope Among’in Osier is a Kenyan immunologist,paediatrician and educator.
Catherine Olufunke Falade is a professor of pharmacology and therapeutics and also the director of the Institute for Advanced Medical Research &Training at the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She is also a healthcare practitioner specializing as a pharmacologist at the University College Hospital,Ibadan. Her research interest focuses on malaria in children. She collaborates with the Malaria Control Units of both the State and Federal Ministries of Health.
The Faculty of Tropical Medicine,Mahidol University is the only faculty specialising in tropical medicine in Thailand. It operates the Mahidol Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine (Mahidol-BSTM) as the main teaching facility and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases for patient treatment.
Nicholas John White is a British medical doctor and researcher,specializing in tropical medicine in developing countries. He is known for his work on tropical diseases,especially malaria using artemisinin-based combination therapy.
Tolullah "Tolu" Oni is a Nigerian urban epidemiologist at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. She is a NextEinstein Forum Fellow and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Azra Catherine Hilary Ghani is a British epidemiologist who is a professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. Her research considers the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases,including malaria,bovine spongiform encephalopathy and coronavirus. She has worked with the World Health Organization on their technical strategy for malaria. She is associate director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.
Marta Tufet Bayona is a British and Spanish biologist and public health resource coordinator with a specialty in malaria. She is executive director of the UK Collaborative on Development Research.
Moses Alobo is a Kenyan physician,public health researcher and social entrepreneur. He leads the African Academy of Sciences Grand Challenges Africa Programme. He specialises in the implementation of health research in resource-limited countries,including programmes in vaccinology and antimicrobial resistance. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Alobo led the African Academy of Sciences' response to coronavirus disease.
Evelyn Nungari Gitau is a Kenyan cellular immunologist at the African Academy of Sciences,and was named a Next Einstein Fellow.
Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa,a Nigerian paediatrician and infectious diseases epidemiologist,is the current Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). He was appointed to this role in September 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari to replace Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu who was the head of the agency since August 2016.
Jean Nachega is a Congolese American physician who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an infectious diseases doctor with a focus on improving the public health outcomes of people infected with HIV/AIDS. He is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
Emelda Aluoch Okiro is a Kenyan public health researcher who is lead of the Population Health Unit at the Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust program in Kenya. She looks to understand the determinants of health transitions and to evaluate access to health information. She is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
Halidou Tinto is a Professor of parasitology and global health scientist with research that has contributed to understanding and combating malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tinto founded the Clinical Research Unit of Nanaro (CRUN) in Burkina Faso as part of the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé(IRSS). Tinto is now the Regional Director of the IRSS,and throughout his career he has contributed to the study of antimalarial drug resistance and the development of malaria vaccines.
