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 Alan has spent his
working life in Africa specialising in schistosomiasis. He went to Tanzania
as a malacologist in 1966, and moved to Sudan in 1971, employed by the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He ran the applied research
component of the Blue Nile Health Project. After 17 years in Sudan he was
awarded an OBE, and moved to manage a $39.6 million USAID project in Egypt
(1988-1998). He then stayed in Egypt managing a schistosomiasis vaccine
development project for USAID, concurrently assisting implementation of the
National Schistosomiasis Control Project. The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, in awarding this grant, have allowed Alan to fulfill his dream
to help countries in Sub Saharan Africa to control morbidity due to
schistosomiasis. In October 2004, Alan became Professor of Tropical
Parasitology at Imperial College London. |
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 Kieran has experience of
office administration with previous posts in the civil service at the Office
of Population, Census and Surveys, the housing sector with Walterton & Elgin
Community Homes and postgraduate education at Imperial where he was the
short course manager at the National Heart & Lung Institute and in
Histopathology at the Hammersmith Hospital campus. He studied Geography at
Middlesex and Environmental Science at Imperial. From 1995 -1998 he taught
English and Science in Asia and he currently holds an editorial assistant
post with Nature. He is dedicated to assisting the SCI management unit
implement national programmes of schistosomiasis control in sub Saharan
Africa, a region he has visited several times. |
