As a pediatrician, with a special interest in infectious disease epidemiology and public health, Professor Bassat has attempted to combine his clinical work with biomedical research in those diseases that most affect the poor and vulnerable. Dr. Bassat’s research has always relied on the premise that there is no greater public health intervention than that […]
Dr. Mandomando is the Senior Researcher & Coordinator of Diarrheal Disease Research Area and Laboratory Advisor in the Manhiça Health Research Center (CISM) in Mozambique. Dr. Mandomando completed his undergraduate studies in 1999 in Veterinary Medicine at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. Shortly after graduating, he joined CISM in 2000. He completed his Ph.D. in […]
Anthony Scott is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya and Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He trained in clinical infectious diseases and epidemiology in Oxford and London before moving to Kilifi in 1993, to […]
Dr. Nega Assefa is a public health expert in reproductive health and maternal and child health. He has supervised and mentored more than 70 Masters and 6 PhD students at Haramaya University. He has also contributed to course work on sexual and reproductive health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, child growth and survival, and nutrition and dietetics. […]
Dr. Emily Gurley is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has worked in public health research in Bangladesh since 2003, and she spent 12 years at the icddr,b (International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh) where she led the Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation […]
Shams El Arifeen is the first Senior Director of the Maternal and Child Health Division (MCHD) at icddr,b in Bangladesh. Dr. Arifeen is also a Professor at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at the BRAC University in Bangladesh, where he teaches epidemiology. His interests are in maternal, newborn and child health, nutrition […]