Contact details
Dr Wendy E Harrison
Deputy Director
School of Public Health
VB1
Norfolk Place
St Mary's Campus
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 3287
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Dr Wendy E Harrison
The SCI is a collaborative project to assist countries in sub Saharan Africa control schistosomiasis, intestinal helminths and other Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that leads to chronic ill-health and affects more than 200 million people in developing countries, 85% of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Approximately 600 million people are at risk of contracting schistosomiasis because they live in tropical regions where water supply and sanitation are inadequate or non-existent.
The SCI has been supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, through several grants since 2002, for work in six countries in East and West Africa.SCI works in partnership with a range of other organisations including the World Health Organisation, and the DBL-Institute for Health Research and Development and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Wendy Harrison joined the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative as Deputy Director in April 2009 from the Comparative Medicine and Biology Unit at GlaxoSmithKline where she worked in an advisory role across a range of therapeutic drug development areas including inflammation and infection.
Wendy has a Veterinary Degree from the Royal Veterinary College and worked in mixed animal practice prior to completing a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology at St. Georges Hospital Medical School and a post doc in comparative vascular biology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia. Wendy has a particular interested in integrated multi-disciplinary approaches to public health in developing countries with a focus on capitalizing on potential synergies between human and animal health programs.
Wendy completed a Masters in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2008 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene From 2000- 2008 Wendy served as a Council member on the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and is currently on the Council of the Comparative Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine.
