Name:Tumani Corrah, MD, PhD, FRCP, PPWACP, Visiting Professor, University of Oxford
Title:Unit Director & Chairman, Executive Management Board
BACKGROUND
- Over twenty years of progressively senior-level work experience in a leading research institution in Africa.
- Nineteen years of active research experience on Tropical and Infectious Diseases, with special interest in Tuberculosis (early diagnosis; diagnosis of TB in difficult situations, such as in patients with HIV and low CD4 counts; shortening the duration of treatment for TB). Also interest in HIV and Malaria.
- Strong links with governmental and non-governmental organisations in Africa and throughout the world.
- Expertise in capacity building, including the establishment of ‘north-south’ collaborations; strong links with several institutions of higher learning in Africa.
Studies of TB in The Gambia
- The geographical distribution of sensitivity of skin test antigens in The Gambia;
- A trial of the effects of prior vaccination with BCG and of immunotherapy with Mycobacterium vaccae on the outcome of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis.
| Committee Membership | |
| 2010 | Member, Partnership Board, EDCTP |
| 2010 | International Advisory Committee, Malaria Eradication Research Agenda |
| 2009-2011 | Regional Advisor for Africa, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene |
| 2007 to date | International Adviser, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene |
| 2006 | Member, Developing Countries Coordinating Committee (EU-funded European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership) |
| 2005 | Member, NIH funded Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) Scientic Advisor Board. $308M project, undertaking immunology and other studies to break impasses in HIV vaccine development. |
| 2005 | Member, Technical Advisory Group, GAVI Hib Vaccines Initiative, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 1998 to date | Medical Adviser to the Gambia Red Cross Society |
| 1988 to date | Member – Gambia National AIDS Control Programme |
| 1988 to date | Member – Gambia National TB/Leprosy Control Programme |
| 1994 -1996 | Chairman of the Board – Royal Victoria Hospital, Banjul |
| 1998 to date | Member – WHO Task Force for TB Control in Africa |
| 1999 to date | Member – Gambia Government Anti-Tobacco Campaign |
| 1997 to date | Vice President – African AIDS Research Network (West Africa) |
Honours
Gold Medal – International Medical Informatics Association for joint presentation with Dr Peter Byass (currently Visiting Professor at the University of Umea, Sweden) entitled ‘Assessment of a probabilistic decision support methodology for tropical health care.’
Special invitation to deliver an address to the Heads of State of the Organisation of African Unity (now named the African Union) in Abuja, Nigeria, entitled ‘Research into Tuberculosis in Africa’ (April 2001)
