RSTMH Annual Meeting 2023

We are delighted to announce our first speakers for this year's Annual Meeting:

• Mr Abu Conteh - Senior Researcher, Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre
• Dr Adam Roberts - Reader, Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and Resistance, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)
• Professor Ahmed Fahal - Professor of Surgery, University of Khartoum and Founding Director, Mycetoma Research Center
• Dr Alan Dangour - Director of Climate and Health, Wellcome
• Professor Sir Andy Haines - Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health, Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
• Professor Anthony Costello - Founder and Chair of the International Lancet Countdown for Climate Action and Health
• Arjun Panesar - Founding CEO and Head of AI & Ethics, DDM Health
• Aparna Barua Adams - Project Manager, International Coalition for Trachoma Control (ICTC)
• Dr Aula Abbara - Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
• Dr Benjamin Black - Specialist Advisor
• Dr Bern-Thomas Nyang’wa  - Medical Director, Amsterdam Operational Centre of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
• Dr Bernadette Abela - Team Leader for Neglected Zoonotic Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO)
• Dr Bhargavi Rao - Associate Professor of Humanitarian Public Health, LSHTM
• Dr Camilla Ducker - Senior Advisor, Global NTD Programme, WHO HQ 
• Dr Catrin Moore - Senior Lecturer, St George's University of London
• Dr Charles Mowbray - Discovery Directory – Drugs for Neglected Tropical Diseases Initiative (DNDi)
• Professor Charlotte Watts - Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence, UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
• Professor Sir Chris Whitty - Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Health and Social Care, England
• Dr Craig Tipple - Medical Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi)
• Dr David Wilson - Program Director, World Bank
• Mr Fidel Strub - Director, Elysium Noma Survivors Association
• Mr Gareth Maher-Edwards - Scientific Director, Global Health Medicines R&D, GSK
• Dr Ghada Zoubiane - Head of Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement, International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS)
• Dr Gita Khalili Moghaddam - UKRI Innovation Scholar, University of Cambridge
• Professor Henry Mwandumba - Director, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme
• Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall - Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO
• Professor Jimmy Whitworth - Professor of International Public Health, LSHTM
• Dr John Amuasi - Executive Director, African Research Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ARNTD)
• Professor John Crump - Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Global Health, and Co-Director for the Centre for International Health, University of Otago
• Dr Julia Kemp -  Head of Major International Programmes, Wellcome
• Dr Kebede Deribe Kassaye - Director for Neglected Tropical Diseases Africa, Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
• Professor Laura Hammond - Pro-Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange, SOAS University of London 
• Professor Liam Smeeth - Director, LSHTM
• Dr Luis Pizarro - Executive Director, DNDi
• Professor Margaret Gyapong - Director of the Institute of Health Research and Coordinator of the Centre for Health Policy and Implementation Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS)
• Dr Mark Booth - Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University
• Dr Meenakshi Gautham - Assistant Professor of Health Systems and Health Policy, LSHTM
• Michael Corley - Head of Policy and Public Affairs, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC)
• Dr Michael Makanga - Executive Director, European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
• Professor Philippe Guérin – Director, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) 
• Rachael Cummings - Global Head of Humanitarian Health, Save the Children
• Rohit Malpani – Consultant, formerly with INITAID, Oxfam and the WHO
• Dr Sakib Burza - Medical Director of the international Planetary Health NGO, Health in Harmony.
• Dr Val Snewin - Head of Global Health Research Partnerships, Science, Research and Evidence Directorate, Department of Health and Social Care 
• Dr Wendy Harrison - Chief Executive, Unlimit Health