The Causes and Impacts of Neglected Tropical and Zoonotic Diseases Opportunities for Integrated Intervention Strategies (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix F: Speaker Biographies
Appendix F: Speaker Biographies
Pages 567-578
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His portfolio includes the coordination of neglected tropical diseases control and elimination focusing on lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, and collaboration on leish maniasis, leprosy, trachoma, fascioliasis, and integrated vector control. He has served with PAHO/WHO in Guatemala and Brazil from 1997 to 2005, and prior to then as Technical Director for Public Health in the U.S.
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He currently has research and/or training activities under way in Thailand, Burma, China, India, Vietnam, Russia, Kazakh stan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, and South Africa. Shing Chang, Ph.D., is the Research and Development Director at DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, a Geneva-based nonprofit organization devoted to the research and development of drugs for neglected tropical diseases)
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From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Feinberg was a medical officer in the Office of AIDS Research in the Office of the Director of the NIH, the chair of the NIH Coordinating Committee on AIDS Etiology and Pathogenesis Research, and an attending physician at the NIH Clinical Center.
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At UCSF and Emory, Dr. Feinberg and colleagues were engaged in the preclinical development and evaluation of novel vaccines for HIV and other infectious diseases and in basic research studies focused on revealing fundamental aspects of the pathogenesis of AIDS.
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Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., is the Distinguished Research Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine at George Washington University, and President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, an affiliated nonprofit research, development, and advocacy organization.
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in charge of various programs, he came back to the French Ministry of Health before joining WHO in Geneva in 1995. After having been in charge of the African trypanosomiasis program, in 2005 he became Coordinator of Innovative and Intensified Disease Management in the WHO Neglected Tropical Diseases Department of WHO in Geneva.
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King was instrumental in obtaining funds for the construction of a $60 million Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health; he initi ated the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases in the college, he served as the campus leader in food safety, and he had oversight for the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.
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From this work, he became involved with public health efforts aimed at eliminating filariasis at the community level through mass drug administration in Haiti, Guyana, American Samoa, and other countries. Beyond his work at CDC, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at both Emory University and the University of Georgia and as a member of the Executive Group of the Global Alliance for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis and of WHO's Working Group on the Monitoring and Evaluation of NTD Programs.
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In 2004, Ms. Moran founded the research group that became Policy Cures at the London School of Economics & Political Science, later transferring it to the George Institute for Global Health in Sydney.
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, he currently manages a Gates Foundation grant for operational research focused on "Resolving the Critical Challenges Now Facing the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis" and provides technical support to USAID-funded efforts in 14 countries to control or eliminate NTDs through programmatically integrated approaches.
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from Wake Forest University in 1983, continuing research on Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease that he began as an undergraduate. He joined the faculty of the University of Georgia in 1984 as an Assistant Professor in the then Department of Zoology and is currently a Distinguished Research Professor and UGA-AA Distinguished Research Chair in Cellular Biology.
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She has lectured and published widely, serves on several editorial boards, and is an Associate Editor for Journal Watch Infectious Diseases. She is the author of A World Guide to Infections: Diseases, Distribution, Diagnosis (Oxford University Press, New York, 1991)
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