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I am a Professor in Global Health, Infection and Immunity at the University of Edinburgh and co-Director of the Global Health Academy. I also hold honorary positions at the Universities of Oxford and KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. My work on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is target-oriented and interdisciplinary. I conduct and lead basic scientific research that has had an extraordinary impact on the policy, practice and control of NTD s, especially in Africa. My work has contributed to shaping national and global NTD policies by working closely with the WHO and local governments in affected countries, impacting millions of lives.
Most notably, my work has led to the World Health Organization (WHO) revising the pediatric schistosome treatment policy. Prior to my studies, children below 5 years old were excluded from schistosome treatment with the drug of choice, praziquantel (PZQ). My group’s immunology, epidemiology and field studies challenged this health inequity, providing PZQ safety and efficacy data, on which basis, the WHO revised the pediatric schistosomiasis treatment policy, making ~50 million more African children eligible for schistosome treatment.
These large-scale impacts have emerged from my long-term field and laboratory studies of the immuno-epidemiology of schistosomiasis. I am an author on 86 peer-reviewed publications, many in highly regarded journals, e.g. Lancet Infectious Diseases, PNAS. My major contributions include demonstrating in the field that treatment of schistosome infection induces immunological responses that protect against re-infection.
I am a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, the Zimbabw Academy of Science and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. was a founding member of the RSE’s Young Academy of Scotland. I am membder of the Uniting to Combat NTDs and I currently sit on several advisory groups including the African Academy of Science (AAS), UK Deartment for International Development (DFID) 's Science Advisory Board, the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), AAS-Royal Society FLAIR Scheme and WHO Africa Regional Director's advisory group. I am currently a committee member of several funding bodies and chair the UK’ department of Health’s National Institutes of Health Global Research (Groups) Funding committee.
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