Professor Xiao-Nong Zhou

Xiao-Nong Zhou, Ph.D, Professor, Director of National Institute of Parasitic Diseases at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention & Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research; based in Shanghai. Director of WHO Collaborative Centre for Tropical Diseases; Member of the Advisory Committee for Health Actions, State Council of China.

Xiao-Nong Zhou has long-term experience working with the World Health Organization, both on research projects and serving as a member on expert committees, such as: the WHO Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee; the WHO Food-borne Diseases Epidemiological Evaluation on Burden of Diseases; and the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, TDR. He is currently acting Editor-in-Chief of ‘Infectious Diseases of Poverty’ and Associate Editor of ‘PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases’. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, etc., and has published six books in relevant fields. Xiao-Nong Zhou has been the Principal Investigator of at least ten national research projects, such as the National Science and Technology Key Project on Major Infectious Diseases, Science and Technology Support Program, the Key Programme of the National Natural Science Fund projects, as well as several international cooperative projects supported by the International Development Research Centre, IDRC (Canada), TDR, DANIDA (Denmark) and the National Institutes of Health, NIH (USA). He has been awarded several prizes as a result of his research achievements, including two first grade and five second grade prizes at ministerial level. He has supervised more than 30 students at MSc and PhD levels, as well as ten post-doctoral fellows.

Xiao-Nong Zhou’s major contributions to the TDR STAC will be in the following four areas, based on his previous working experience:

Review the strategy, scope and content of TDR in the area of schistosomiasis and other neglected tropical diseases;

Provide gap analysis and evaluation on research projects in one of TDR’s scientific working groups, with particular focus on implementation research projects;

Provide consultancy in the intra-disciplinary project, such as ecohealth, one health projects; and

Make recommendations on health marketing for TDR activities, with a particular focus on Asia and editorial experience in infectious diseases of poverty.