Scientific Working Group

Scientific Working Group

Scientific Working Groups
Scientific Working Groups (SWGs) provide support to specific portfolio workplans. These are part of TDR’s overall system of consultations and horizon scanning to assess needs and bring in the highest level of scientific oversight and input.

Members of the Scientific Working Group help review and prioritize proposed activities, screen and select projects, recommend funding and follow-up progress and evaluation of results. They are selected by the TDR Secretariat, in consultation with the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), TDR’s main scientific review body. For coordination, SWG co-Chairs are members of STAC.

Members of the Scientific Working Group

Eleni Aklillu
Professor of Tropical Pharmacology, Senior Research Scientist and Research Group Leader, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Vicente Belizario
Department of Parasitology, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines

Flaminia Catteruccia
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc
Senior researcher on Health System Research, Hanoi, Viet Nam

Lilian Dudley
Emeritus Associate Professor, Division of Health Systems and Public, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Wilfred F. Mbacham
Professor of Public Health Biotechnology, Chair of the Graduate Programme, Life Sciences and Biology of Organisms Unit, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon



Maowia Mukhtar
Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Francine Ntoumi
Director General, Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

Rose Ndakala Oronje
Director, Public Policy and Communications, African Institute for Development Policy, Nairobi, Kenya

Larissa Otero Vegas
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, San Martín de Porres, Peru

Raman Preet
Global Health Professional and Research Manager; Equal Opportunity Officer; Coordinator EU Climate-Health Cluster for IDAlert, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Jakob Zinsstag
Deputy Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland

 

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TDR annual report 2024

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TDR results 2023 report

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TDR annual report 2023

This report highlights the impact of research supported by the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases...

TDR Strategy 2024-2029

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