Neglected tropical diseases

Members of the STAG

Prof. Adenike Abiose
Professor of Ophthalmology at Ahmadu Bello University and Director of the National Eye Centre in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Prof. Pierre Ambroise-Thomas
President of the National French Academy of Medicine.


Prof. Sir Roy Anderson
Roy Anderson Rector Elect of Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, University of London.


Dr Assia Brandrup-Lukanow
Former Director of the Division for Health, Education, and Social Protection at the German Agency for Technical Cooperation.

Prof. Rodrigo Correa De Oliveira
Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Pesquisas René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ in Belo Horizonte, Brasil.

Prof. Sumadhya Deepika Fernando
Professor in Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.


Prof. Nirmal K. Ganguly
Prof. Nirmal K.Ganguly is currently Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

Prof. Duane J. Gubler
Professor and Chair, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai‘i.

Prof. Mamoun Mohamed Ali Homeida
President of the University of Medical Sciences & Technology, Khartoum, Sudan.


Prof. Peter Hotez
President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine at The GWU.

Prof. Gustavo Kourí Flores
Medical Doctor, Havana University, Cuba, Ph.D. National Center for Scientific Research, Havana, Cuba.

Prof. Giancarlo Majori
Director of Vector-borne Diseases and International Health Unit, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immuno-mediated Diseases, at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Dr Mary Elisabeth G. Miranda
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a graduate of the Field Epidemiology Training Program of the Department of Health.

Prof. David H. Molyneux
Director of the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre, supported by UK Department for International Development (DFID) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

Prof. Han-Jong Rim
Professor Emeritus in parasitology at the Korea University, senior member of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology.

Dr Bijan Sadrizadeh
President of the Iranian Public Health Association, member of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences.

Prof. Donald Sloane Shepard
Prof. at the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy at the Heller School, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts and leader of the Institutes’ workgroup on Cost and Value.

---------- Prof. Tsutomu Takeuchi

Prof. Lin-Hua Tang
Director and professor of the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

---------- Dr Zeinab Yousef

Dr Sam Zaramba
Sam Zaramba is the Director General of Health Services in Uganda. Previously he was the Director responsible for Clinical and Community Health in the Ministry of Health of Uganda.

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