Dr. Margaret F.C. Chan obtained her B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1973 and 1977. She joined the Hong Kong civil services in 1978 and began her career in public health. She undertook postgraduate training in public health at the Singapore National University where she obtained her M. Sc. […]
Professor Alfred Sommer received B.S. degree from Summa Cum Laude, Union college. He further studied M.D. from Harward Medical School and M.H.S. from Johns Hopkins School of Hygine & Public Health, Epidemiology. He was a Director of Vitamin A Deficiency Research and Control Program, Indonesia (1976-80). He became a professor, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, International Health, Johns […]
Sir Iain Geoffrey Chalmers, Director of UK Cochrane Centre, National Health Service Research and Development Program, Summertown Pavilion, Middle Way, Oxford, Great Britain Dr. Chalmers is a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, which aims to help people by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. The results of the work […]
Professor Harald Zur Hausen is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center) in Heidelberg, Germany. Professor Zur Hausen’s discovery has a major impact in our understanding of the cause of cervical cancer which is leading to the prevention of one of the most common cancers in women. He and his […]
Professor Stanley G. Schultz, MD. is the former Dean of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in Texas, USA. He is now Professor of the Department of Integrative Biology Pharmacology, University of Texas Madical School at Houston, Taxas, U.S.A. In the 1960s, Dr. Schultz and his team demonstrated that glucose and sodium absorption […]
Dilip Mahalanabis, MD. is the Director of the Society for Applied Studies, a non- governmental research organization, in Kolkata, India. Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis started his work on oral rehydration therapy in 1966 as a research investigator for Johns Hopkins University International Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta. During the Liberation War of Bangladesh […]
David R. Nalin, MD. Is the former Director of Vaccine Scientific Affairs. Merck Vaccine Division, Merck&Co. Inc., West Point, Pensylvania, U.S.A. Dr. David R. Nalin, was assigned, in the 1960s, to the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (CRL) in Dhaka, East Pakistan (presently, the capital city of Bangladesh) as a research associate at the US National […]
Richard A. Cash, MD, MPH. is Senior Lecturer on International Health at the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, U.S.A. As a young clinician, right after finishing his internship in New York City, working at the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (CRL) in Dhaka in 1960s, Dr Cash had […]
Professor Herbert L.Needleman, is professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, U.S.A. He has made significant contributions to the understanding and prevention of childhood lead poisoning. Through a series of epidemiologic studies, Professor Needleman found that even in the low dose exposure, lead can cause irreversible damage to the […]
Professor Egon Diczfalusy received his medical degree from the University of Szeged, Hungary in 1944: he moved to Sweden in 1946 and became a Swedish citizen in 1950. He obtained a Ph.D. degree at the Karolinska Institute in 1953 and an M.D. Degree in 1958. He was Director of the Hormone Laboratory, Karolinska Hospital between […]
