Join Professor Sir Nick White, a world-renowned expert in tropical medicine, as he reflects in an unfiltered personal perspective on the changing landscape of global health.
With many years of experience in infectious diseases and global health research, Nick gives his unvarnished views on the roles of academia, policymakers, funders, and industry in shaping healthcare for low-resource settings. He doesn’t hold back! He tackles critical issues such as technical incompetence and image consciousness in funders and international organisations, the dissociation between real and perceived needs, corruption, North-South imbalance, declining clinical investigation, naïve trust in technological solutions, and the need for greater efficiency and effectiveness in global health efforts.
A must-watch for anyone passionate about making a real impact in global health.
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About Sir Nick White
Professor Nick White is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow who chairs the Wellcome Trust Tropical Medicine Research Programmes in South East Asia. He has lived and worked in Thailand since 1980. His research focus is the pathophysiology and treatment of malaria. He has concentrated on characterising antimalarial pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships to improve the treatment of malaria and reduce the emergence of resistance. This led to artemisinin-based combination treatment for falciparum malaria, and the change to artesunate for severe malaria. He has authored over 1000 scientific publications and 50 book chapters. He is on the Board of the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network and Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, and he co-chairs the WHO GMP technical expert group on prevention and treatment of malaria and the WHO antimalarial treatment guidelines committee. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) for services to tropical medicine and global health in the 2017 New Year’s Honours.