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 […]
Dr.Adetokunbo Olumide Lucas, a Nigerian, and Dr.Tore Godal, a Norwegian, jointly won the Award for their contribution toward the development of the Special Program on Tropical Disease Research (TDR) into a world-acclaimed, highly productive, and effective research in the tropical diseases, namely Malaria, Schistosomiasis, The filariasis, Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, African trypanosomiasis, and leprosy. These are […]
Dr.Adetokunbo Olumide Lucas, a Nigerian, and Dr.Tore Godal, a Norwegian, jointly won the Award for their contribution toward the development of the Special Program on Tropical Disease Research (TDR) into a world-acclaimed, highly productive, and effective research in the tropical diseases, namely Malaria, Schistosomiasis, The filariasis, Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, African trypanosomiasis, and leprosy. These are […]
Dr. P. Helena Makela, M.D., Ph.D., research Professor Emerita, National Public Health Institute of Finland. Her most important work is related to Hemophilus Influenza type B – Hib conjugated vaccine to prevent invasive disease in young children. The Hib conjugated vaccine has been used in the national infant immunzation program in the U.S.A., Canada and […]
Dr.Maurice R. Hilleman, Ph.D. Director of Merck Institute of Vaccinology and Adjunct Professor of pediatrics, Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, is considered a leading scientist in vaccinology. He has pioneered 36 licensed vaccines including Japanese encephalitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, combined MMR, purified poliovaccine, varicella, hepatitis A, hepatitis B. Most importantly, these vaccines […]
Sir Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Sir Richard Peto had the first degree in Natural Sciences from University of Cambridge and the second degree, MS,c. in Statistic from University of London. His work persuaded doctors to use tamoxifen in the treatment of breast cancer. His […]
Professor Kennedy Francis Shortridge, an Australian national, was born on 6th April 1941. He obtained Bachelor of Science ((Microbiology) from the University of Queensland in 1962. He started his career as a Bacteriologist at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1963. In 1971 he received Ph.D. (Virology) from University of London: University College Hospital Medical School. […]
Professor Vincent P. Dole graduated from Stanford University in 1934, where he major in mathematics, a discipline which was to remain central to much of his future research work and in 1939 he graduated from the Harvard Medical School. He was professor and senior physician to the Rockefeller University Hospital in mid-1960’s and was also […]
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 […]
