The latest news from the MIM Secretariat. Read about important dates, plenary speakers, and a pre-conference workshop in the attached MIM Update of 16 August 2013. Feel free to share this information with your fellow colleagues.
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Akros will be offering several DHIS2 training courses in Durban in the two weeks following the MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference. See the course descriptions below, or visit www.dhis2training.com for more information.
Dr Abdisalan Mohamed Noor (PhD) is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KEMRI-WTRP) in Nairobi. His areas of research include access to health care, mapping of malaria transmission, populations at risk and the coverage and impact of malaria control interventions in Africa.
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Alister Craig graduated in Genetics from Edinburgh University in 1981 and obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology from Leicester University in 1984. He spent the next two years as an EMBO Fellow at EMBL in Heidelberg followed by two years as an ICRF Fellow in London working on developing techniques for genome analysis.
He subsequently worked for ten years at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford on malaria before joining the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1999. In 2011 he was one of the first recipients of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator awards.
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Professor Hilary Ranson is Head of the Department of Vector Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, one of the largest departments of its kind, with research strengths in malaria, neglected tropical diseases and monitoring and evaluation. Professor Ranson’s own research focuses on the control of mosquito borne disease and, in particular, the use of insecticides in vector control. She is internationally renowned for her work on insecticide resistance and has contributed her technical expertise to a range of WHO scientific advisory boards and is a technical advisor to the Innovative Vector Control Consortium.
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Prof Kelly Chibale joined the University of Cape Town (UCT) as a lecturer in 1996 and became a full Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2007. A year later he was warded a Tier 1 South Africa Research Chair in Drug Discovery under the South Africa Research Chairs Initiative. In 2009, Prof Chibale founded the South African Medical Research Council's Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit at UCT and was elected a Life Fellow of UCT and a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.
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Dominic Kwiatkowski holds a joint appointment as Professor of Genomics and Global Health at Oxford University, and as head of the Malaria Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK. He is Director of the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health, which is a joint research programme of Oxford University and the Sanger Institute.
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Prof Kiaran Kirk is Director of the Australian National University’s Research School of Biology. He carried out his PhD in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Sydney (1985-1988). From 1989 he worked at the Oxford University Laboratory of Physiology where he held an Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellowship, the Staines Medical Research Fellowship (Exeter College) and a Lister Institute Senior Research Fellowship.
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EVIMalaR Workshop: Career Opportunities for African Malaria Researchers
The latest news from the MIM Secretariat. Read about important dates, plenary speakers, and more news in the attached MIM Update of 17 July 2013. Feel free to share this information with your fellow colleagues. More...
