Burden and control of neglected tropical diseases and prospects for elimination

报告题目：Burden and control of neglected tropical diseases and prospects for elimination
报告人：Prof. Alan Fenwick

 Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
 
报告时间：2013年10月18日14：00
报告地点： 2400会议室
 报告人简介：
Alan Fenwick教授现为英国帝国理工大学医学部教授，全球血吸虫病控制倡议组织（SCI）创始人，英国皇家热带医学与卫生学会会士。Alan Fenwick教授领导着全球血吸虫病控制倡议组织致力于在非洲大陆消除众多被忽略的热带病，其中就包括血吸虫病、肠道蠕虫病。鉴于Alan教授为非洲地区控制被忽略的热带病做出的杰出贡献，他先后被非洲8个国家颁发国家金质奖章或总统奖，并被英国女皇授予大英帝国勋章（通常所说的爵士）。Alan教授的研究兴趣涉及血吸虫病及其他被忽略的热带病的各个领域，已在包括N Engl J Med、Lancet、Nature、Science在内的国际著名期刊上发表学术论文300余篇，同时也是众多学术期刊的编委会成员。同时，Alan教授还担任WHO血吸虫病专家咨询委员会委员、WHO被忽略的热带病科学技术理事会委员等职。由于其在被忽略的热带病研究领域的重大成就，先后被英国皇家热带医学与卫生学会和美国热带医学与卫生学会授予杰出贡献奖。详见:
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/AP/faces/pages/read/Home.jsp?person=a.fenwick&_adf.ctrl-state=tv6pohzuw_3&_afrRedirect=344985316000000

Professor Fenwick has been at Imperial College since June 2002 teaching Tropical Parasitology to medical students, on Bio Medical Science courses, Masters Courses, and to Intercollated B.Sc. courses both at Imperial and in other UK Universities. A specialist in the research and control of Schistosomiasis, Professor Fenwick has been recognized for his achievements not only by the Queen with an OBE, but also in other countries.
He has received awards from both the UK Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) and the US American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). The programme that Professor Fenwick established at Imperial in 2002 (SCI) has been recognized as a top medical programme by the award of the "Queens Anniversary Prize" in 2008.