Prof. Nick White prepares seminar on antimalarial resistance

Malaria – Responding to the challenge of antimalarial drug resistance

Date:  Wednesday, 14th May 2014

Time:  13h00 – 14h00

Venue: Teaching Room B, Rosemary Rue Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford University, Headington, OX3 7LE

Sandwiches and refreshments are provided

Professor White will present a seminar as part of the oxford Talks seminar series. Prof. White will briefly summarise the historical background to antimalarial drug resistance, and summarise some of the work being done to monitor and track the current emergence and spread in Southeast Asia and Africa. The talk will then focus on what more could be done to control the spread of resistance and recommend containment strategies to avoid further drug resistance in Asia and Africa. Finally, Prof. White will outline highlights from the Mahidol and Oxford University research agenda, and share some insights as to how works to support the efforts of the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) going forward, including details of projects that will map and track further resistance emergence across Asia.

More about Prof. White:

Prof. Nick White has lived and worked for more than half of his life in Thailand. When he arrived in 1980 drug resistant malaria was a significant health problem, but with advances in treatment and improved public health, malaria spread and emerged in border areas. He is currently a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University and Oxford University, and is also a Consultant Physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. Prof. White is the Chair of WWARN's Board and has supported the work of WWARN since the network's inception in 2009.

Prof. White’s principal research interests are malaria, particularly the pathophysiology and treatment of malaria, and also other severe tropical infectious diseases such as melioidosis, typhoid, pyogenic, tuberculous and fungal meningitis, dengue, viral encephalitis, pneumococcal infections, diphtheria, and tetanus.

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If you'd like more information, or to join this seminar, please email: info@wwarn.org