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 […]
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. Yu Yongxin, Director Emeritus, First Department of Viral Vaccine, National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products, People’s Republic of China. Professor. Yu Yongxin had spent nearly three decades to derive an SA14-14-2 Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine from kidney cells of hamsters. Tested for immunogenicity and efficacy in experimental animals and then […]
Professor Takahashi developed a vaccine isolated from the vesicles of a typical case of chicken pox in a 3-year-old Japanese boy. Named Oka after the boy, the vaccine was developed to prevent chicken pox in a process which is strictly adhered to the standard of the World Health Organisation. The vaccine was widely accepted and […]
Dr. Sanduk Ruit Medical Director, Tilganga Eye Centre Kathmandu, Nepal Dr. Sanduk Ruit is globally recognized for his tireless work in restoring eye-sight of millions of cataract patients in poor countries through safe, effective and economical eye surgery. Working in Nepal, Dr. Ruit introduces and further develops an effective suture-less operation technique that allows operations […]
Dr. Hetzel is a world leader on the understanding of the adverse effect of iodine deficiency on brain development. He coined the term “Iodine Deficiency Disorders” to increase awareness of harmful effect of iodine deficiency on the brain function rather than endemic goiter. He is also a key figure to promulgate global actions to control […]
Dr. Ciro de Quadros is recognized as the leading figure in the massive campaign that eradicated poliomyelitis in the Western Hemisphere. He is a Brazilian and graduated from the Catholic Medical School in Proto Alegre, Brazil, and received a MPH degree from the National School of Public Health, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started […]
