Janet Hemingway

Janet Hemingway (born 1957) is a British infectious diseases specialist. She is the former Director of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and founding Director of Infection Innovation Consortium and Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM. She is currently the President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

While serving as Director of LSTM between 2001 and 2019, the organization hit several milestones. This included the awarding of Higher Education Institution Status & Degree Awarding powers to LSTM.  For her 2012 contributions to the Prevention of Tropical Disease Vectors, she received the Commander of the British Empire (CBE). She assumed the role of founding director of [https://www.infectioninnovation.com/ iiCON] in 2020.

Hemingway also works on advocacy and resource mobilization (and was previously chief executive officer) at the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) (funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), and is International Director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Jizan, Saudi Arabia. Provided by Wikipedia