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Biography of Speakers and Conference Facilitators
Guaning Su
Welcome Address and Global Tech President
Professor Su Guaning is President of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Since taking office on 1 January 2003, he has raised the university’s profile as a research-intensive institution of higher learning ranked among the world’s best universities. Professor Su is the founding Chairman of the Global Alliance of Technological Universities. In 2010, he was re-elected Chairman of the Alliance for another two-year term.
A Singapore President’s Scholar and Colombo Plan Scholar, Professor Su obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering and MS in Statistics from Stanford University. His MS and BSc in Electrical Engineering (with Distinction) were from the California Institute of Technology and University of Alberta, respectively. Professor Su was previously founding Chief Executive of Singapore’s Defence Science & Technology Agency (2000-2002), Deputy Secretary (Technology) at the Ministry of Defence (1998-2000), founding Chief Executive Officer of DSO National Laboratories (1997), and Director of the Defence Science Organisation (1987-1997).
Professor Su serves on a number of boards, including the Board of Trustees of Institute Para Limes in the Netherlands, the boards of the Singapore National Research Foundation and Business China, Singapore, and the International Advisory Boards of King Abdulaziz University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has received many awards, including the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour awarded by the President of the French Republic. He is also an Honorary Fellow and past President of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore, and founding Fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology.
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Ralph Eichler
Welcome Address and Official Host
Ralph Eichler obtained his doctorate in Physics from ETH Zurich. After being active as a researcher in the USA (Stanford University in California and LAMPF/Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility in Los Alamos/New Mexico) and Germany (DESY/German Electron Synchrotron, Hamburg), as well as at the Institute for Medium Energy Physics at ETH Zurich and as a project manager at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), he became a Professor of Physics at ETH Zurich in 1989. His scientific career then took him once again to DESY, this time as spokesman of the international collaboration H1, before he took on leading roles at PSI, firstly as Deputy Director from 1998 to 2002 and then as Director from 2002 to 2007. Ralph Eichler has been President of ETH Zurich since September 2007.
Ralph Eichler is a member of the ETH Board and Vice President of ETH Zurich Foundation. He also serves on two Boards of Directors and his other affiliations include memberships of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), the Board of Energie Trialog Schweiz, the AXPO Advisory Board on Sustainability, the Swiss Economic Forum and the SLAC/Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s Scientific Policy Committee. He currently operates as Vice President of the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS).
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Nthoana Tau-Mzamane
Keynote Lecture: “Capacity Building and Research Collaboration in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Dr Nthoana Tau-Mzamane is currently serving as the Registrar for South Africa’s Walter Sisulu University (WSU). WSU was established in 2005 from a merger of the former University of Transkei, Border Technikon and Eastern Cape Technikon. She previously served as member of a Program Management
Team that provided support to the Office of the Premier of Limpopo Province (South Africa) with respect to the implementation of the provincial growth and development strategy. as the program manager for agriculture based industrial clusters. Dr. Tau-Mzamane is the immediate past President and Chief Executive Officer of one of South Africa’s Science and Technology Institutions – The Agricultural Research Council.
Since 1996, she has served the public sector in South Africa first as Head of the Department of Agriculture, Land and Environment in Limpopo Province (South Africa); then as the Deputy Director General and Head of the Science and Technology Branch in the then National Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. Prior to 1996, Dr Tau-Mzamane worked in various capacities at Research and Academic institutions in Southern Africa, West Africa and the United States of America.
She has served on the boards of the International Livestock Research Institute (headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya) and on two of South Africa’s Science and Technology Institutions (the National Research Foundation AND the Council for Science and Industrial Research) and on SugarBeet South Africa . She has also been a member of the executive committee of South Africa’s National Science and Technology Forum and a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation for the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Dr. Tau-Mzamane obtained her education in Lesotho and UK and has a BSc degree in biological sciences, a certificate in project planning and management, a post-graduate diploma in education, a MSc in grassland ecology and a PhD in Agronomy.
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Franz Oswald
Input Lecture: “Rural urbanism and academic research – learning from a real-life experiment in Ethiopia”
Franz Oswald was appointed full Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich in 1972. He was elected chairman of the Architectural Division in 1986, and three years later Dean of the Department of Architecture. Since 1993 he has been Professor for Architecture and Urban Design (Urbanism). In 1995 he initiated together with Prof. Dr. Peter Baccini the transdisciplinary research project Sykonios dealing with three interrelated questions: high standards of city form, sustainable management of resources, scenarios for restructuring urban regions. Since August 2010 he is the director of the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore ETH Centre in Singapore.
Franz Oswald, born on January 24, 1938, studied philosophy, literature and history of art at the Universities of Bern and Zurich. Thereafter he started his studies in architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. earning his degree he spent several years in Cologne and at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where he finished his postgraduate studies in architecture and urban design with Prof. Colin Rowe. From 1983 Franz Oswald has held several visiting professorships at Cornell University, Columbia University, and Syracuse University, NY. In 1976 he opened his own architectural office in Bern pre-dominantly dealing with housing and urban projects in Switzerland, Germany, and Israel, and with projects for the restoration of Sassanidic palaces in Iran. He has received various awards for projects and buildings.
The following publications illustrate his activities: "Netzstadt, transdisciplinary methods for restructuring urban native systems; Zurich, 1998 eds. Peter Baccini and Franz Oswald; "Denklied Brache"; Salzburg, 1997. Von Anonymia zu Lakunia, Bulletin Nr. 262, Magazin der ETH Zurich, Juni 1996. Prosper III, Eine Zechenbrache wird Stadtteil, Bottrop 1996, Publikation zur IBA-Emscher Park; Mustersiedlung Scheuring, Deggendorf, Bayern; Wohnquartier Bleiche, Worb BE; Wohnquartier Drosselweg, Wohlen AG; Wohnen an der Rheinstahlstrasse, Altes Zechengelände Prosper III, Bottrop; IBA-Emscher Park, Anthos I, 1993; Stadtlandschaft im Umbruch "Avenches: Broye-Park", ETH Zurich, 1991.
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Dirk Hebel
Case Study: “Academic Collaboration between ETH Zurich and EiABC”
Dirk Hebel is currently the Scientific Director of the Ethiopian Institute for Architecture, Building Construction and City Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Before that, he taught at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich as the Director of the Master of Advanced Studies Program in Urban Design as well as the responsible person for First Year Architectural Education at ETH Zürich with Prof. Marc Angèlil. In this line, together with Marc Angélil, he published in 2008 the book DEVIATIONS, an experiment in architectural design pedagogy to initiate a plea for a new type of architectural practice. His research addresses architecture as well as the human body as a social construct. The resulting work has been published and several of his Design-Research-Studios with international students from Bachelor to Master Level won international recognition. The publication BATHROOM UNPLUGGED, together with Jörg Stollmann, demonstrates this research focusing on the question of hygiene and architecture. Together with Marc Angélil, he also presented recently the book CITY OF CHANGE: ADDIS ABABA.
Dirk Hebel practices architecture in Zürich, Switzerland with his firm DRKH Architecture. Newer projects include the architectural design for DISCOVERIES, an exhibition for the Foundation Lindau Nobel Prize Winners. After working for Diller + Scofidio in New York and being the project manager for the BLUR Building for EXPO.02 in Switzerland, Dirk Hebel was one of the partners of INSTANT Architects (2002 and 2007). Projects include the award winning project UNITED_BOTTLE, the international traveling exhibition “INVENTIONEERING_ARCHITECTURE” and the pneumatic installation “ON_AIR” in Berlin. In 2007 UNIT-ED_BOTTLE received the Van Alen Institute Fellowship Award, the Red Dot Design Award for Best Conceptual Design and the LANXESS Award Singapore.
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Elias Yitbarek
Case Study: “Academic Collaboration between ETH Zurich and EiABC”
Elias Yitbarek, architect and urban planner, is the Research and PhD Program Director and a Chair-holder of Housing at the Ethiopian Institute of Architec-ture, Building construction and City development (EiABC). He obtained his M.Arch from K.U. Leuven, Belgium (1996) and PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2008). He has extensively taught and lectured at various universities both in the Bachelor and Masters programmes. As a practi-tioner he has a number of implemented projects; single buildings as well as urban level housing interventions. He has publications focusing on slum upgrad-ing, housing, inner-city redevelopment and the education of architects. His current research areas are Inner-city Redevelopment and Sustainable Rural Dwellings. He is the current president of the Association of Ethiopian Architects.
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Devang Khakhar
Case Study: “Curriculum Development and Educational Aids” and
Break-out Session: “Education and Outreach Programmes”
Professor Devang Khakhar is currently Director of IIT Bombay and Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Professor Khakhar did his B.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 1981 and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay in January 1987, and has been with the Institute since then.
Prof. Khakhar's research interests include mechanics of granular materials and polymer processing. He has published over 90 papers in these areas. For his research achievements, Prof. Khakhar has been accorded several prestigious awards, which include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1997) and the Swarnajayanti Fellowship (1998). He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He serves on the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.
Prof. Khakhar is also a recipient of IIT Bombay's "Excellence in Teaching Award" and the "Mathur Award for Research Excellence". He has served as Profes-sor-in-Charge of IIT Bombay's Continuing Education Program from 2001-02, as Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 2002-04, and the Dean of Faculty Affairs from 2005-08.
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Desta Berhe Sbhatu
Case Study: “Curriculum Development and Educational Aids”
Desta Berhe Sbhatu has worked as a secondary school teacher for six years in Ethiopia and the USA (teaching biology and physical and earth sciences) and a college lecturer (of biology and science education) for seven years. Moreover, he has served as college department head, academic and research vice dean. He earned his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Biology and a PhD in Science Education with doctoral research focusing on the role Metacognition in teaching children science. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the department of Biological and Chemical Engineering – a program designed by him and launched in 2009 – and dean at Mekelle Institute of Technology. Dr Desta promotes the development of biotechnology in Ethiopia – as a field of education, research and development, and business enterprise.
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Jakob Zinsstag
Input Lecture: “Principles for Research in Partnership with Developing Countries and Trans-Disciplinary Approaches from Research to Policy”
Jakob Zinsstag graduated with a doctorate in veterinary medicine (Dr. med. vet.) on Salmonella diagnosis at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Berne in 1986. After his studies he worked in rural practice and as post doctoral fellow on trypanosomiasis research at the Swiss Tropical Institute. From 1990 to end of 1993 he led a livestock helminthosis project for the University of Berne at the International Trypanotolerance Centre in The Gambia. From 1994 to 1998 he directed the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Since 1998 he leads a research group at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel on the interface of human and animal health with a focus on health of nomadic people and control of zoonoses in developing countries under the paradigm of “one health”. He holds a PhD in Tropical Animal Production from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 2010 he is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Basel . He is a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Public Health (ECVPH) and member of the scientific advisory board of the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Belgium.
The research group is currently part of the National Centre of Competence in Research North-South (http://www.north-south.unibe.ch/, financed by the SNSF and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation). Within the NCCR N-S, Jakob Zinsstag is co-leader of health research, to which research institutions throughout Switzerland contribute and which has projects based on four continents. The group's projects are located in Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia and the group is networking with research institutes and veterinary authorities in these countries and England, France, Germany, Austria Canada and the USA.
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Bassirou Bonfoh
Input Lecture: “Principles for Research in Partnership with Developing Countries and Trans-Disciplinary Approaches from Research to Policy” and
Case Study: “Long-Term Partnership between the Swiss Centre for Scientific Research (CSRS) and ETH: Towards Food Security in Côte d’Ivoire”
Bassirou Bonfoh is a veterinarian and holds a DVM and a PhD in biology. He worked in West Africa as livestock development program coordinator with Vétérinaires Sans Fraontières. He went for a 3 years postdoctoral fellowship at ETHZ and Swiss Tropical Institute on "healthy milk for the sahel" before leading for 4 years a research group on "extensive pastoral production system" in the Sahel and Central Asia in the framework of the NCCR North-South. He is Professor in epidemiology and Managing Director of Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS). He is currently the West Africa regional coordinator of the NCCR North-South and the Director of the consortium Afrique One "Population & ecosystem health: expanding the frontiers in health". B. Bonfoh is guest lecturer at University of Lomé (Togo) and the Pan African veterinary school in Senegal and member of scientific advisory board of several agriculture and health research institutes in Africa.
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Brian D. Robertson
Case Study: “Bovine Tuberculosis in Ethiopia”
Brian D. Robertson is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, and a founder member of both the BBSRC Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College, and the Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection. He has more 20 years experience working on bacterial pathogens, including Neisseria and mycobacteria, and current research covers topics include Drugs for Latent Tuberculosis (part of a Gates Grand Challenge in Global Health funded by the BMGF and the Wellcome Trust), the development of bioluminescence imaging for TB (BMGF), and the impact of bovine tuberculosis in Ethiopia (Wellcome Trust). We are also using systems biology to analyse the response of bacteria to combinatorial stresses tools, which combines experimental and modelling approaches (BBSRC LoLa). Recent work has also included the development of a tetracycline regulated gene expression system for mycobacteria (BBSRC). He is co-ordinator of the EU collaborative project PHAGOSYS that is looking at the systems biology of phagocytosis to identify host-cell factors targeted when mycobacteria block phagosome-lysosome fusion. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Tuberculosis, an Editor of the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, and a member of the government Scientific Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification. He is also on the Expert Review Panel for the Wellcome Trust Ltd.
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Abraham Aseffa
Case Study: “Bovine Tuberculosis in Ethiopia”
Abraham Aseffa graduated in medicine from the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia (great distinction) and specialized in Medical Microbiology at the University of Leipzig in Germany where he did his dissertation on the development of an attenuated live vaccine against Listeria monocytogenes (summa cum laude). He joined and later headed the Department of Microbiology in Gondar College as Associate Professor. He conducted leprosy research for 1 year in Carville LA as a senior Fulbright scholar and basic leishmania immunology research for 3 years in WHO IRTC in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been working at the Armauer Hansen research Institute (AHRI) since 2001 as senior scientist, Deputy Director and currently as Scientific Director. Abraham Aseffa has substantial experience in collaborative TB, TB/HIV, leishmania and infectious disease research and in supervising graduate students at AHRI (over 20 PhD and 40 MSc completed and ongoing), as well as teaching Immunology and Clinical Microbiology at Addis Ababa University as honorary faculty member. He has co-authored over 125 articles in peer reviewed journals. Abraham is an active contributor to many professional associations and initiatives in Ethiopia and Africa. He has shown particular interest in capacity building efforts of health research manpower and ethics.
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Aris Georgakakos
Case Study: “Managing the Nile at a Time of Social and Environmental Change”
Dr. Aris P. Georgakakos holds a civil engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and Masters and Ph. D. degrees in water resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Georgakakos is currently a Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, Head of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources Program, and Director of the Georgia Water Resources Institute. Dr. Geor-gakakos’ research and technology transfer activities aim to develop and implement prototypical information and decision support systems for integrated water resources assessment, development, and management. These systems combine data from conventional and remote sources, GIS, and models from various scientific and engineering disciplines. Dr. Georgakakos has been involved in several world regions and his decision support systems are currently used for river basin planning and management in Georgia and the southeast US, California, East Africa, Brazil, Jordan, Greece, and China. His research has been sponsored by U.S. and foreign organizations including the US Geological Survey, US Army Corps of Engineers, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-ministration, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Bank, US and European International Development Agencies, and several domestic and foreign electrical utilities. Dr. Georgakakos publishes extensively, is currently an Associate Editor for the Advances in Water Resources Journal and the Journal of Hydrology, and was also recently appointed to the Federal Advisory Com-mittee which oversees the US National Climate Change Assessment.
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Mamdouh M. Hassan
Case Study: “Managing the Nile at a Time of Social and Environmental Change”
Dr. Mamdouh Hassan is regional hydro power expert at the ENTRO office in Addis Ababa. His Professional background is water resources planning and management and reservoir operation. He holds a Ph. D from Ain Shams university in Cairo, Egypt. As regional hydro power expert he is responsible for regional consultation of feasibility studies between the countries of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. Dr. Mamdouh is a steering committee member of the regional power trade project in the Nile Basin region.
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Emmanuel Frossard
Case Study: “Long-Term Partnership between the Swiss Centre for Scientific Research (CSRS) and ETH: Towards Food Security in Côte d’Ivoire”
Emmanuel Frossard is Professor and head of the Group of Plant Nutrition of the ETH Zurich. He earned his PhD in agricultural sciences at the University of Nancy (France). Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Saskatchewan Institute of Pedology in Saskatoon, Canada. In 1994, he was elected Professor of Plant Nutrition in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the ETH. His work focuses on nutrient cycling in cropping and grassland systems. Together with his Group, he is conducting a process-oriented research at levels ranging from the molecule to the field, to understand drivers controlling nutrient fluxes and to propose integrated nutrient management schemes that will contribute to the development of ecologically efficient agricultural systems both in temperate and tropical environments.
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Martijn Sonnevelt
Case Study: “Long-Term Partnership between the Swiss Centre for Scientific Research (CSRS) and ETH: Towards Food Security in Côte d’Ivoire”
Martijn Sonnevelt is currently working as a Post-Doc at the Institute for Environmental Decisions at the ETH within the Agri-food and Agri-environmental Economics Group (Head Prof. Bernard Lehmann). His research interests are development economics from household to meso-economic level, food security challenges and system dynamics modeling. His doctoral research focused on the actions and driving forces of smallholder farm households in the Sri Lankan hill-country. He is involved in different teaching activities covering issues of sustainable development and global food security as well as methodical aspects such as e.g. system dynamics modeling. Martijn Sonnevelt has been the coordinator of a research project financed by the ETH North South Centre and has research and working experience in Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Armenia and the Ivory Coast.
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Philippe Block
Break-out Session: “From NEST-Town to SUDU”
Philippe Block is a structural engineer and architect with multi-disciplinary research interests including graphical and computational form finding, masonry mechanics, fabrication innovation and appropriate construction solutions for developing countries; trained at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. After finishing his PhD at MIT (2009), he relocated to Switzerland where he is heading the BLOCK Research Group at ETH Zurich, as Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Institute of Technology in Architecture. Ph. Block works as an expert for the structural assessment of historic monuments around the world and applies his research into practice in the design of compression structures pushing innovation in unreinforced masonry.
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Fasil Giorghis
Break-out Session: “From NEST-Town to SUDU”
Fasil Giorghis is an Ethiopian architect who is chair holder of conservation of urban and architectural heritage and development at EIABC, Addis Ababa University. For more than twenty years, he has devoted his time to the study and preservation of the architectural heritage of his country, from traditional housing to historic towns. He has participated in numerous international conferences and contributed articles on sustainable architecture and preservation of cultural heritage. His architectural design work in his private consulting firm focuses on regional hotels, cultural centers, and private residences, for which he melds use of local material, indigenous knowledge and environmental concerns in contemporary design. As a designer and amateur artist he has also participated in several local and international exhibitions.
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Michael Best
Case Study: “Information and Communication Technologies and African Development”
Dr. Michael L. Best is associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology where he is also research faculty with the GVU Center and directs the Technologies and International Development lab. He is also a faculty associate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Professor Best is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the widely read journal, Information Technologies and International Development. He is a frequent consultant to the World Bank, ITU, and USAID. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has served as director of Media Lab Asia in India and head of the eDevelopment group at the MIT Media Lab.
Best’s research focuses on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social, economic, and political development. In particular he studies mobile and Internet-enabled services and their design, impact, and importance within low-income countries of Africa and Asia. He researches engineering, public policy, and business issues as well as methods to assess and evaluate development outcomes. Professor Best is also interested in the impact of ICTs on the development-security nexus and on post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation.
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Michael French
Case Study: “Schistosomiasis Control in Sub-Saharan Africa – from Implementation to Research”
Michael French is a mathematical modeller and country programme manager at the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) based at Imperial College London. The SCI aims to control a range of so-called neglected tropical diseases, including schistosomiasis, via preventative chemotherapy to school-aged children and at-risk adults, using safe, effective and cheap (often donated) drugs once or twice a year. To this end, he provides technical assistance to the Yemen schistosomiasis programme, a 6-year (2010-2015), US$28 million World Bank-funded project to control schistosomiasis-related morbidity nationwide. His PhD thesis involves the use of mathematical models to understand transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis in populations, and the predicted impact of control strategies.
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Miguelhete Lisboa
Case Study: “Schistosomiasis Control in Sub-Saharan Africa – from Implementation to Research”
Mr. Miguelhete Lisboa is Health Program Manager of the NGO Esmabama which is managing four Health Centers in four catholic missions in the Province of Sofala, Mozambique. His professional background is Preventive Medicine and Environmental Sanitation Nurse. He obtained his habilitation at the Health Sciences Institute of Inhambane, Mozambique, and now is a medical student at the Catholic University of Mozambique, Beira.
His experience in project management is based on operational researches with the Sofala Provincial Health Officers in order to improve the quality of health care. Miguelhete Lisboa is a member of Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) and Mozambique Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) Project Manager in collaboration with SCI – Imperial College – London.
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Peter Preiser
Presentation: “Burden of Malaria – A Continuing Problem for Global Health”
Peter Preiser is Deputy Director of the Bioscience Research Centre at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He obtained his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Delaware, USA. Before moving to NTU in 2003, he worked for 11 years in the Parasitology Division at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK. During his time in the UK his research focused on the interaction of the malaria parasite with its host. This work also led to establishment of research collaborations with the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya. After his move to Singapore he continued to focus his research on parasite-host interaction and expanded his collaborations to include the Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. This interaction enabled him to now in addition to Plasmodium falciparum to also study P. vivax another human malaria parasite that infects millions of people each year. The collaborations with both Kenya and Thailand have given him significant insights on working in malaria endemic areas. P. Preiser in addition to research on malaria is also involved in a number of academic programmes at NTU, including the CN Yang scholars programme.
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Joel Ng
Presentation: “Rule of Law Norms: The African Union and ASEAN Charters in Comparative Perspective”
Joel Ng is a Senior Analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University working on non-traditional security issues, particularly energy and natural resource security, rule of law, and internal conflict. He completed his MA with distinction in Conflict, Security & Development at the University of Sussex and BA in Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He formerly worked in Uganda on refugee and IDP legal protection issues during the northern Uganda conflict and Singapore in public and investor relations. He was principal research coordinator for the Human Rights Resource Centre’s ASEAN Rule of Law Project.
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Barbara Becker
Conference Facilitator
Barbara Becker is the Managing Director of the North-South Centre of the ETH Zurich. Her professional background is tropical agro-ecology. She obtained her habilitation at the University of Kassel, Germany. As a UNEP field project officer she investigated the vegetation ecology of Andean land use systems in Peru. Her doctoral research focused on edible wild plants in Africa. Her experience in research management is based on former positions with the German government. B. Becker is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and she served on several other boards and steering committees on international agricultural research.
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Margrit Leuthold
Conference Facilitator
Margrit Leuthold has been Director for International Institutional Affairs at ETH Zurich since October 1, 2008. Before taking up this present position, she was head of strategic planning from December 1, 2006 to September 30, 2008 at ETH Zurich, Secretary General of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences from 1998 until 2006, staff member of the President at ETH Zurich from 1992 until 1998, and head of the section biology and medicine at the Swiss National Science Foundation from 1990 until 1992.
Margrit Leuthold graduated in Biology. She is member of the Swiss Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics and Vice-President of the Council of the University Hospital Zurich.
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