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2014 Conference
Speakers
Keynote speaker
Dr Lorenzo Savioli was Director of the World Health Organization’s Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases for 9 years, championing the cause of the “other diseases” referred to in the Millennium Development Goals. Having retired from WHO earlier this year, he has now joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as a Senior Professorial Fellow.
Anti-microbial Drugs
Consultant medical microbiologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Chair of the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Initiative and the deputy director of the Wellcome Trust Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research. She previously worked for 7 years at the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme in Thailand, with a particular interest in melioidosis.
Dr Nick Brown
Consultant medical microbiologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Lead Public Health Microbiologist for the East of England region and the President of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, which set up ‘Antibiotic Action’ – a campaign to reinvigorate antibiotic development. He has presented on antibiotic resistance with UK Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, in the House of Commons.
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Ms Aparna Barua
Prof Alan Fenwick
A leading figure in the field of Neglected Tropical Diseases . Is a former member of a Scientific Technical Advisory Group (STAG) on NTDs for the WHO (2009 and 2011). In 2012 he was made an honorary fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and is the current director of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI).
Sexual and Reproductive Health
A research associate of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge. Zeynep’s research interests concern the social and ethical issues surrounding the globalization of assisted reproductive technologies. Her work specializes in three areas: IVF in the Middle East, egg-donation and egg-sharing, and “reproductive tourism”.
Mr Gareth Walker
An international program manager for Doctors of the World UK. Gareth is an experienced programme and operations manager for INGO’s delivering high quality impact in many African and Asian countries. He has a background in disaster operations and development management and has experience in the following sectors: food security, livelihoods, and conflict resolution.
Global Health Partnerships
Fleur Kitsell
Natasha Mellor
A PhD candidate working on the MOVE (Measuring the Educational Outcomes of Volunteering) project alongside Prof Louise Ackers and Dr Lucie Byrne Davis. Natasha has a particular interest in measurement and international development and is currently studying in the Social Policy department of Salford University. Natasha is the UK country coordinator for VACI-Ghana and developed a school counselling program in rural Ghana.
Mental Health
Currently holds the position of Senior Research Associate in Public Health at Cambridge University’s Institute of Public Health. She is also the Adj Associate Professor in Global Health at the University of Notre Dame in England.