Malaria and Neglected Diseases Campaign

Meghana Kulkarni from St. Georges' welcomes you on the Malaria and Neglected Diseases Medsin page. We hope you will get in touch, by emailing me at mndc@medsin.org.

Below is an explanation of what we do, and links to 5 of many UK medical schools that work on this Campaign. If your medical school is not here, please either contact us or them directly, and you can get involved straight away.

This website will be updated, and more information is to come, but in the meanwhile the National website for MNDC is the Bristol MNDC one, which can be found at www.medsinbristol.co.uk/mnd/home.php. This is because we need a webmaster (anyone interested?) to help us tailor the Bristol website to a National one.

Here are a few lines about this Campaign...

The worldwide threat posed by malaria brought the issue of neglected diseases to our attention, which is why the campaign was introduced. Malaria alone is a huge killer, however through vertical focus there is a danger of failing to consider the wider determinants of health inequality. With regards to research and development, malaria indeed begs more attention, but so do other neglected diseases. They all mostly affect the same areas of the world, mainly Sub Saharan Africa and South East Asia.

The Malaria and Neglected Diseases Campaign would like to deliver greater attention to malaria and other neglected diseases amongst students in he UK. We would like to avoid vertical focus and address the issue of R&D for neglected diseases including malaria.

Professor Alan Fenwick OBE, Professor of Tropical Parasitology and Director of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial has kindly offered to be our Patron.