Professor Alan Fenwick OBE
(Director)

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.

Kieran Bird - SCI Office Manager

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.

Nick Baldry graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with a BA in Politics in 2006 where he developed an interest in the politics of sub Saharan Africa. Nick joined SCI in early 2007. His focus is primarily on the USAID grant though he is also involved in many other aspects of SCI’s work and, on occasion, mismanaging the DIDE football team.

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Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG

email: schisto@imperial.ac.uk