Professor Aaron T. Beck is the first person who has worked on the method of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to use on patients suffering from depression. He developed CBT in the early 1960s when he was a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania. He researched, developed and tested the efficiency of the method used on […]
Dr. David T. Wong started his study and research in the 1970s and later found fluoxetine, which was the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). It then took about 15 years before the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) approved fluoxetine for marketing as an antidepressant drug under the trade name “Prozac” in January […]
Professor Robert E. Black’s long-standing works on the importance of childhood nutrition significantly contribute to the wide application of zinc supplementation. His earlier studies in Bangladesh and India demonstrated that daily zinc supplementation during diarrheal episodes significantly reduced the severity of diarrhea. Similar situation occurs in pneumonia cases. He also described the diarrhea-nutrition cycle in […]
Professor Kenneth H. Brown devotes most of his career generating information and developing programs to improve nutritional and health status, especially in controlling and preventing zinc deficiency. He and his team conducted a series of community-based clinical trials of the effect of zinc supplementation on the child growth and development as well as risk of […]
Professor Ananda S. Prasad described first cases of human zinc deficiency syndrome in 1963 in young adults with delayed sexual development, short stature, anemia, enlargement of liver and spleen, and abnormalities of bone maturation. Zinc supplementation resulted in significantly increase in height, weight, bone development and sexual maturation. This pioneering work highlighted the importance of […]
Professor Kevin Marsh pioneers the studies of immune epidemiology of malaria. Based mainly in Africa, his earlier studies showed the importance of strain-specific immunity in malaria. His team examines life cycle of malaria parasites in human body and how the body responds to the infection. This led to the recognition of several classes of variants […]
Professor Nicholas J. White is world leader on the treatment of malaria especially on the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies. He and his team carefully conducted a series of clinical studies that clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of artemisinin for treatment of previously drug-resistant malaria, first in Southeast Asia and subsequently elsewhere around the world. Professor […]
Mr. Mechai Viravaidya founded the Community-based Family Planning Services in 1974, currently known as the Population and Community Development Association (PDA), to provide family planning education for the rural women. His tireless proponent of the use of condom to prevent pregnancy through the unique communication campaigns has demystified condoms, previously the taboo subject and unspoken […]
Dr. Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn, while serving as Director, Office of Communicable Disease Control Region 4 in Ratchaburi, Thailand in 1989, initiated the 100% Condom Use Programme which has been recognized worldwide as one the most successful HIV/AIDS prevention tools. The principle of the 100% Condom Use Programme is based on cooperations among all stakeholders, government authorities, […]
Professor Anne Mills is a world leader in the development and application of economic tools to improve policy-making and practice of healthcare systems. Her work has influenced major health policies, both at national and international levels, by demonstrating that proper investments in medicine and public health will have a major impact on economic growth and […]
