Dr Frank Richards

Dr Richards is a Senior Advisor to the Health Programmes at The Carter Center in Atlanta, USA.  He is an expert in parasitic and tropical diseases who has worked extensively in Latin America and Africa.

Dr Richards has focused his career on the use of available tools to interrupt the transmission of vector-borne parasitic diseases. He spent 23 years in the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before joining The Carter Center in 2005 as Director of the river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and malaria programmes. He is the recipient of many awards, including the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's Bailey K. Ashford Medal.

Dr Richards has authored or co-authored more than 230 articles, letters, and chapters and holds faculty appointments in the School of Public Health (Global Health) and School of Medicine (Pediatric Infectious Disease) at Emory University.