Tightening the net around malaria

doi:10.1136/bmj.a1267

Published 19 August 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a1267
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a1267

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize

Tightening the net around malaria

Geoff Watts, freelance journalist, London

geoff@scileg.freeserve.co.uk

See Analysis doi: 10.1136/bmj.a869

Brian Greenwood has spent 30 years working in sub-Saharan Africacoming up with ways to control malaria among other things. GeoffWatts talks to the man who is one of the joint winners of theHideyo Noguchi Africa Prize

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In so far as attempts to thwart malaria have made progress inrecent years, one man in particular is entitled to a share ofthe credit. He’s Brian Greenwood of the London Schoolof Hygiene and Tropical Medicine—and the recent decisionto make him one of the joint winners of the newly created HideyoNoguchi Africa Prize was a well deserved public acknowledgmentof his personal contribution. The citation speaks of his boldand innovative work on the disease. At a time when malaria wasspreading beyond restraint, it says, he contributed to the designand creation of strategies to control it.

The Hideyo Noguchi Prize, fundedby the Japanese government, comprises two separate awards: onefor medical research in Africa; the other for medical servicesto the continent. Dr Hideyo Noguchi, who died in 1929, was aJapanese bacteriologist who joined the then Rockefeller Institutefor Medical Research in . . . [Full text of this article]