Professor Zeno Bisoffi (MD, PhD, DTM&H) is the Director of the Department of Infectious - Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar (Verona), and Associate Professor of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the University of Verona. Coordinator of TropNet (European Network for Tropical Medicine and Travel Health). His main areas of interest are Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases (in particular strongyloidiasis) and Clinical Logic.
Dr Richard Bradbury (PhD, FFSc RCPA, FASM, FACTM) is a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Federation University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include diagnostics, molecular epidemiology and surveillance for parasitic diseases and zoonoses. Richard has an extensive background in the diagnostic pathology industry and is the former Team Lead of the Parasitic Diseases Diagnostic Reference Laboratory at the CDC.
IFTM Past-President (2016-2022), President (2012-2016), Vice-President / President Elect (2008-20012), Secretary General (2005-2008), Treasurer (2001-2005).
Professor Daniel-Ribeiro (MD, DSc, DrHC) is the Head of the Centre for Malaria Research and Training at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz); Full Researcher and Professor at Fiocruz, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and the Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Apoio à Pesquisa no Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Faperj); Academician of the National Academies of Medicine of Brazil and France.
IFTM Secretary General (2008-2014).
Professor Filomeno Fortes (MD, MPH, PhD, Specialist in Public Healt), is currently the Director of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, and President of the Research Center of Excellence, Global Health and Tropical Medicine of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. In the past, he held the following functions: Chief of the National Department for Disease Control in Angola, Director of the National Malaria Control Program, President of the National Technical Committee for Onchocercosis Elimination (2000-2017) and Coordinator of the PhD Course in Biomedical Sciences of Agostinho Neto University, Angola.
Professor Sócrates Herrera (MD) is currently Director of the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center in Cali, Colombia, which leads a consortium of several biomedical research centers dedicated to malaria research, with important emphasis on P vivax vaccine development.
Professor Stephen Higgs (Ph.D., FRES., FASTMH) is Director of the Biosecurity Research Institute and Assoc. Vice President for Research at Kansas State University. He is past President of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and since 2002 has been the editor-in-chief of the international journal Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases. His research has resulted in over 200 peer-reviewed publications with a focus has on mosquito-borne viruses, but has also included work on vaccine evaluation. Work to evaluate an mRNA vaccine platform was recognized by the BIAL Award in Biomedicine for most significant publication over 10-year period for “Zika virus protection by a single low dose nucleoside modified mRNA vaccination” (Nature, 2017). Other awards include the Hoogstraal medal for outstanding achievement in medical entomology.
Carsten Köhler (MD, PhD), graduated in Biology and Medicine at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany; Research and training periods in Brazil, Gabon, Kenya, the Netherlands, Austria and Togo. He is Head of the Center of Excellence of Tropical Medicine for Baden-Württemberg at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Since autumn 2016, Carsten Köhler has been President of the German Society for Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine and Global Health (DTG). He is a founding member and Member of the Board of the German Network against Neglected Tropical Diseases (DNTDs), as well as member of the steering committee of the German Alliance for Global Health Research (www.globalhealth.de). Within the Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH) he is the delegate in the General Assembly for the German Society DTG. His main areas of interest are Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases (in particular Schistosomiasis) and Global Health. He was awarded the Memento Research Prize for Neglected Diseases, for his commitment to improving therapy in cases of severe malaria disease.
Professor Agnes Kurniawan is a clinical parasitologist and full-time lecturer; she was the head of Parasitology Diagnostic Service Laboratory (a referral Parasitology and Mycology lab) at Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia. She is currently the chairman for Indonesian Clinical Parasitology College, part time advisor for the NTD program and Parasitology laboratory quality at Ministry of Health. Her main research interest is in opportunistic and emerging protozoa infections.
Professor, Dr Rita Kusriastuti (MD, PhD) is expert on NTDs (Malaria, Dengue, Filariasis, Zoonosis, Taeniasis, etc.). She is the Chair of the Indonesian Parasitic Disease Control Association; Vice Chair of the Global Fund ATM – CCM Indonesia; Member of IKKESINDO, Health Management Consultant; Member of Partnership section – IKKESINDO; Chair of the Science Unit, in PWJ – DKI, a PHO retirees association; Member of the Indonesian Medical Doctor Association; and Member of the Indonesia Epidemiology Association.
Prof. Dr Marty is a Physician, Scientist, Professor of Emerging Infections, Pathologist and National Security Advisor with nearly 40-years of experience in tropical medicine, infectious disease, and pathology. She serves as a voting member of the President’s advisory council for combating antibiotic resistance and is a senior advisor for the World Health Organisation’s health-security interface team. Dr Marty provides tropical medicine training for physicians in Miami, teaches courses in One Health, and serves as a member of the FIU-FAST team preparing plans and policy for Disaster management, including CBRNE events.
Professor Doctor Gholamreza Mowlavi integrates the academic staff of the Medical Parasitology and Mycology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. He is a parasitologist mainly working on Helminthology. His main areas of interest are: helminths in tissue sections; rare and unusual human helminthic cases; urinary shistosomiasis in Khuzestan province (Iran); and paleoparasitology. He is a member of the board of the Iranian Society of Parasitolgy (ISP) and a member of the research council: Center for Research of Endemic Parasites of Iran (TUMS).
Professor Samson Mukaratirwa (DVM, MVSc, PhD) is full Professor of Parasitology at the School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His main research interest is in a variety of tropical parasitic diseases of economic and public health importance and has a passion on "Neglected Parasitic Zoonoses" affecting the resource-poor communities in Africa which includes malaria, schistosomiasis, Taenia solium cysticercosis, fascioliasis and trichinelliasis.
Professor Dr. Momar Ndao (DVM, MSc, PhD), McGill University, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and he is the Director of the Canadian National Reference Centre for Parasitology. He is actively involved in i) bringing cutting-edge science to diagnose infectious diseases; ii) studying host-parasite interactions; iii) screening drugs to be used as therapies for infectious diseases; iv) developing vaccines to prevent parasitic diseases and v) applying proteomic technology to discover biomarkers for infectious diseases.
Dr. Chandrawathani Panchadcharam (Vet, PhD) is a veterinarian graduating with DVM from UPM (Malaysia) and PhD from Uppsala, Sweden. She has held senior research and administrative positions in the Department of Veterinary Service as Director of Research and Development as well as heading research in parasitology at the Veterinary Research Institute, Ipoh. Her main areas of expertise are in protozoan diseases of ruminants like Trypanosomiasis, Babesiosis and Theileriosis and novel control methods for helminthiasis in small ruminants as well as poultry, pig and small animal parasites. Currently she is the chief editor of the Tropical Biomedicine journal and editorial member of Parasitology. She is an active contributor in the Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical medicine as past president for 2 terms. She was also awarded the honorary member of WAAVP and organized the world conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2017.
Professor Gabriel Parra-Henao (PhD) is director of the Health Research Center for the Tropics (CIST) in the School of Medicine, Cooperative University of Colombia and member of the STAG-NTD at World Health Organization. He graduated in Biology from the University of Antioquia and obtained his MSc in Entomology in the National University of Colombia and PhD in Biology (Medical Entomology), University of Antioquia. Besides accumulating years of experience in field work and implementation of control programmes, he has focused on ecology of disease vectors and tropical medicine, particularly Chagas disease, dengue, and leishmaniasis.
Professor Dr. Antonieta Rojas de Arias (PhD), a Biologist with post-graduate studies in Education Sciences, Public Health and Medical Entomology, is the Technical Director of the Center for the Development of the Scientific Research (CEDIC), ex-President of the Scientific Society of Paraguay, the General Secretary of the Latin American Federation of Parasitology (FLAP) and member of the Advisory Forum of UNITING to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, as well as committee member of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership to end malaria. Her main areas of competences are vector-borne diseases with emphasis in Chagas disease and leishmaniasis and field epidemiology, with particular interest in disease transmission cycles that cross-over into zoonosis.
Chair of the XX ICTMM (2022)
Pratap Singhasivanon (PhD) is currently the President of the Parasitology and Tropical Medicine Association of Thailand (PTAT). He is also currently Secretary General/Coordinator of the SEAMEO TROPMED Network and former Dean of Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University. He received his doctor of public health degree from the University of Michigan, U.S.A.
Professor Doudou SOW (MD, PhD) graduated in Medicine in University Cheikh Anta Diop. He is Associate Professor in Parasitology-Mycology at University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis in the north of Senegal. He is the coordinator of a Senegalese working group on schistosomiasis. He is member of the schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths technical advisory group of the WHO. His research interests include clinical trials and molecular diagnosis in malaria, schistosomiasis and the other parasitic neglected tropical diseases.
Professor Russel Stothard is a medical parasitologist, specialist in field epidemiology and research-led expeditions at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is Director of the implementation research consortium COUNTDOWN and of the undergraduate BSc course entitled Tropical Disease Biology. His main areas of interest are molecular evolution and spatial epidemiology of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with primary focus on schistosomiasis control and preventive chemotherapy; soil-transmitted helminthiasis and other snail-trematode diseases and their interplay with malaria; female and male genital schistosomiasis, longer-term control of the HIV epidemic in Africa and disease transmission cycles that cross-over into zoonosis.
Dr. Neelam Taneja, is Professor and Head of Department of Medical Microbiology at PGIMER, Chandigarh, a 2200 bed tertiary care premier referral Institute in India catering to seven states in north India. She provides diagnostic (conventional as well as molecular), surveillance, referral services, and research in the field of diarrhea, foodborne infections, typhoid and urinary tract infections with a special focus on epidemiology and drug resistance. Her lab plays an important role in investigating and managing cholera outbreaks, and food poisoning in this geographic area. Her major focus on AMR is at human –animal-environment interface based on “one health ”. She has been appointed Advisor to the WHO on AMR-member of advisory committee of Bacterial pathogens of Priority List. She is Expert Member of National Action Plan of India on AMR, member Scientific Advisory Board of NICED Kolkata, WHO consultant for Nepal ESBL-EC tricycle grant, global typhoid consortium member, External expert for ICMR, DBT India-Allianze expert and external expert evaluator for Wellcome Trust, Pasteur Institute and other various international grants
Professor Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté (PhD) is the founding Director of the research Center for Schistosomiasis and Parasitology, Coordinator of the National Programme for the Control of Schistosomiasis and Intestinal Helminthiasis, Coordinator of the COUNTDOWN on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Project in Cameroon, and NTD Ambassador. He is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences. He is a member of several international professional societies and Advisory Committees, and a member of the World Health Organization Advisory Group on Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis and Schistosomiasis Control and Elimination. He also serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He received several awards and distinctions, and was raised to the dignity of Commander of the National Order of Valour of Cameroon in 2016.
Professor Xiao-Nong ZHOU (PhD) is Director of the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD) at the Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (China CDC). He has written extensively on parasitology and parasitic diseases and has collaborated with WHO, including WHO STAC of WHO-TDR, WHO Strategic Advisory Group on Malaria Eradication, WHO Western Pacific Regional Programme Review Group on NTDs. He is Editor-in-Chief for the Infectious Diseases of Poverty.
Professor Dr. Bibigul Zhumabekova is Director of the Biocenology and Ecological Investigations Scientific Center and Professor of General Biology at the Department in Pavlodar State Pedagogical Institute, Kazakhstan. She is the main editor of the journal “Biological Sciences of Kazakhstan”. Her main areas of interest are Parasitology and parasitic diseases, Control of the number of bloodsucking insects using biological methods, and Ecological systems.
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