Dr Allan Schapira
Biography
Dr Allan Schapira is a retired Danish medical doctor living in the
Philippines, who has devoted his professional life over the last 30 years
to control and research related to malaria and other vector-borne
diseases. He holds a diploma in Tropical Medicine from Liverpool, United Kingdom,
and a medical degree and doctorate in medical science from the
University of Copenhagen. From 1990 to 2007, he worked for WHO, being based in the Western Pacific Region and at
headquarters. From 2007 to 2009, he was member of a team in the Swiss
Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, modelling cost-effectiveness
of malaria intervention options. He regularly undertakes consultancies
and training assignments on malaria. Dr Schapira was a member of
WHO’s Malaria Policy Advisory Committee from its inception in 2012
until 2015 and of WHO’s evidence review group for malaria elimination
from 2015 to 2017.