Professor Frederick T. Sai, a Ghanaian physician, educated in the Universities of London, Edinburgh, and Harvard in an internationally recognised authority on health nutrition population and family planning, particularly in Africa. He is currently an honorary professor of community health in the University of Ghana Medical School. As chairman of the National Population Council, he […]
Dr. Nafis Sadik is the Executive Director of the United National Population Fund (UNFPA) and holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. On her appointment in 1987, she became the first woman to head one of the United Nations major voluntarily-funded programmes. As chief executive of UNFPA, the world’s largest source of multilateral […]
Professor Carl Djerassi received his A.B. degree from Kenyon Collage, Ohio in 1944 and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1945. He has been Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, California since 1959. He was also President of Syntex Research between 1968-72 and Chairman of the Board of […]
Dr. Ho Wang Lee is responsible for a watershed discovery, the identification of Hantaan virus, the etiology of the famous Korean haemorrhagic Fever (haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome). This discovery prompted methods for studying the Hantaan Virus in vitro resulting in genetic mapping, knowledge of the global distribution of the virus, the discovery of at […]
Professor William Trager, a protozoologist and an authority on tropical medicine and insect physiology, is a leader in the fight against malaria, the most prevalent disease in the world today. In 1976, he and a colleague described a practical method for the continuous cultivation of Plasmodium falciparum, the most highly pathogenic human malaria parasite. Adopted […]
Dr. John B. Stanbury is a Professor at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. He has a long and distinguished career, pursuing pioneering research on the diseases of thyroid glands since 1949. Initially, Dr. Stanbury worked on diseases related to genetically enzymatic deficiencies of the thyroid glands. They were enzymes related to the synthesis and regulations […]
Dr. Chen Minzhang Professor of Internal Medicine specializing in gastroenterology at the prestigious Peking Union Medical College, People’s Republic of China, and former Minister of Health of China. He served as Vice Minister of Health from 1985 to 1987, and as Minister of Health from 1987 onward, during the critical period of China’s transition from […]
PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD DOLL, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Sir William Richard Doll was a physician specializing in thoracic medicine. He served as Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford and as a consulting physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary in England. His most significant academic contribution was the research demonstrating the association between cigarette smoking and […]
Professor Norman Sartorius is Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland and former Director of the Division of Mental Health of the World Health Organization. Professor Sartorius is an eminent figure in the field of international mental health. He has been instrumental in bringing science to mental health by establishing the first internationally-agreed upon classification […]
Professor Jonathan M. Samet is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, U.S.A. Professor Samet is the world’s leading environmental epidemiologist especially on the health effects of air quality. He plays a major role in the interpretation and policy formation in the areas related to the […]
