Lorenzo Savioli
Lorenzo Savioli is a senior United Nations civil servant and the director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.An Italian national, he holds a medical doctor degree (1977), and two specializations (in tropical medicine, 1979 and in infectious diseases, 1985) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He further pursued his studies in the United Kingdom where he obtained a Master's degree in medical parasitology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians.
In 1979 he moved to Zanzibar, Tanzania where he worked as a clinician and later as the public health officer responsible for controlling schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis on Pemba island. In 1991 he joined the United Nations and was assigned to the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva, where he led the "Programme on Intestinal Parasitic Infections", the "Schistosomiasis and Intestinal Parasites Unit" and the "Parasitic Diseases and Vector Control Unit". In 2005 he was appointed director of the newly constituted "Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases".
The recipient of several awards and distinctions, Savioli is a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences. Provided by Wikipedia
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7by Lorenzo Savioli, Dirk Engels, Denis Daumerie, Jean Jannin, Jorge Alvar, Kingsley Asiedu, Marc Gastellu-Etchegorry, Pere Simarro, Silvio P MariottiGet full text
Published 2006-06-01
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8by Lorenzo Savioli, Marco Albonico, Denis Daumerie, Nathan C Lo, J Russell Stothard, Samuel Asaolu, Louis Albert Tchuem Tchuenté, Roy M AndersonGet full text
Published 2018-04-01
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9by Anuradhani Kasturiratne, A Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Nilanthi de Silva, N Kithsiri Gunawardena, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Ranjan Premaratna, Lorenzo Savioli, David G Lalloo, H Janaka de SilvaGet full text
Published 2008-11-01
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10by Khalfan A Mohammed, Hamad J Haji, Albis-Francesco Gabrielli, Likezo Mubila, Gautam Biswas, Lester Chitsulo, Mark H Bradley, Dirk Engels, Lorenzo Savioli, David H MolyneuxGet full text
Published 2008-01-01
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11by Antonio Montresor, David Addiss, Marco Albonico, Said Mohammed Ali, Steven K Ault, Albis-Francesco Gabrielli, Amadou Garba, Elkhan Gasimov, Theresa Gyorkos, Mohamed Ahmed Jamsheed, Bruno Levecke, Pamela Mbabazi, Denise Mupfasoni, Lorenzo Savioli, Jozef Vercruysse, Aya YajimaGet full text
Published 2015-10-01
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12by Marco Albonico, Sören L Becker, Peter Odermatt, Andrea Angheben, Mariella Anselmi, Arancha Amor, Beatrice Barda, Dora Buonfrate, Philip Cooper, Laurent Gétaz, Jennifer Keiser, Virak Khieu, Antonio Montresor, José Muñoz, Ana Requena-Méndez, Lorenzo Savioli, Richard Speare, Peter Steinmann, Lisette van Lieshout, Jürg Utzinger, Zeno Bisoffi, StrongNet Working GroupGet full text
Published 2016-09-01
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