MAHSC Special Guest Lecture: Malaria in The Gambia, Umberto D'Alessandro
| Dates: | 17 March 2014 |
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| Times: | 17:15 - 18:15 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Manchester Academic Health Science Centre |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Professor Umberto D'Alessandro |
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A special guest lecture presented by the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (www.mahsc.ac.uk).
Professor Umberto D’Alessandro, Director of the Medical Research Council (The Gambia) and Thematic Lead for Disease Control & Elimination, will deliver a lecture on Malaria in The Gambia followed by a question and answer session.
Professor D’Alessandro is a leading expert in malaria, and a clinical epidemiologist with specialist training in public health.
He has worked extensively in Africa and Asia, including The Gambia, where he led the evaluation of the national bed net programme for 3 years, and ran a clinical trial; into a malaria vaccine in Basse.
At the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, he set up the Unit of Epidemiology and Control of Parasitic Diseases, before returning to The Gambia in 2011 as Theme Leader – Disease Control & Elimination at the MRC’s The Gambia Unit, because, as he said, ‘I wanted to go a bit closer to the field’.
Speaker
Professor Umberto D'Alessandro
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Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
Michael Smith Building
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