Bob Snow: championing malaria in Africa

Published in The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) Vol 373 April 25, 2009

EXCERPT: Snow is currently Professor of Tropical Public Health at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, and head of the Wellcome Trust-funded Public Health programme at the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, where he resides. His passion for studying malaria is evident. "It is just a really interesting disease that covers social and political problems right down to basic biology. If you are interested in disease ecology and disease control in Africa, then you can't beat malaria", says Snow.

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