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Dr Anna E Phillips
Programme Manager
School of Public Health
VB11
Medical School
St Mary's Campus
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 3254
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Dr Anna Phillips
Country Programme Manager - Burkina Faso and Niger
Anna Phillips joined the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) in February 2009 as a programme manager in Burkina Faso and Niger in Francophone West Africa. The SCI aims to control or eliminate the seven most prevalent neglected tropical diseases (NTD) - lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths, onchocerciasis, and trachoma by assisting the Ministries of Health in country to develop successful National NTD Control Programmes. Her main responsability is to assist with the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the USAID funded integrated NTD control programme, which involves the assessment of drug needs at district level, the development, production and dissemination of communication materials, as well as the collection and analysis of baseline and follow-up data. In May 2011 USAID funding came to an end and Anna now manages the DFID funded schistosomiasis control programs in Niger and Cote D'Ivoire.
Anna was awarded two Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) projects in Mozambique and Niger in 2010. SCORE is funded by the BMGF through the University of Georgia. SCORE's goal is to inform efforts to gain control of schistosomiasis in high-prevalence areas, sustain control and move towards elimination in areas of moderate prevalence, and ultimately eliminate schistosomiasis.
Anna completed her BSc at Edinburgh University where my main focus was parasitology, with a dissertation on schistosomiasis immunology in Zimbabwean school children. Anna continued her studies at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, completing her dissertation with the SCI looking at schistosomiasis and malaria co-infections in under 5's on Ukerewe Island, Tanzania. Anna finished her PhD in January 2009 at Imperial College London, where she focused on HIV risk behaviour among sexual minorities in Southern India. Her primary tole involved the monitoring and evaluation element among men who have sex with men in Karnataka.
