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Rosanna Peeling

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       Rosanna Peeling是伦敦卫生与热带医药学院诊断学研究教授及国际诊断中心(IDC)主任。 她曾接受过医学微生物学方面的培训,目前是联合国儿童基金会/联合国开发计划署/世界银行/世界卫生组织在瑞士日内瓦开展的热带病研究及培训专门项目(WHO/TDR)的研究协调员和诊断学研究负责人。此前,她是加拿大国家性传播疾病实验室的负责人。
       她的工作侧重于研究,目的是明确诊断方面未被满足的需要,并在发展中国家促进检测的开发、评估和实施。
       她建立了互联网数据中心(IDC),目的是让人们了解诊断的价值、促进创新并促使人们获得高质量的诊断,以提高全球健康水平。
       她是世界卫生组织和国际上很多顾问小组的成员,包括英国政府经度奖和欧洲委员会地平线2020奖顾问小组的成员。这些奖项目的是鼓励发展即时检测,减少不恰当的抗生素使用,让抗生素能为子孙后代所用。
       她曾获得基督教女青年奖、加拿大持续发展领导者5NR奖。她在衣原体感染、不孕不育以及防治梅毒的研究曾以纪录片的形式在“探索”频道中得以报道,该纪录片在英国广播公司(BBC)的”致死还是治愈”系列电视节目中获得高度赞扬。
        2014年,Peeling教授被英国皇家热带医学和卫生学学会授予George MacDonald勋章。由于其在热带医学方面做出的杰出贡献,她是第一位获此殊荣的女性。

Rosanna Peeling is currently Professor and Chair of Diagnostics Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of the International Diagnostic Centre (IDC).
Trained as a medical microbiologist, she was Research Coordinator and Head of Diagnostics Research at the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO/TDR) in Geneva, Switzerland, and Head of the National Laboratory for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Canada before assuming her current position.
Her work focuses on research to identify unmet diagnostic needs, and to facilitate test development, evaluation and implementation in the developing world.
She established the IDC to advocate the value of diagnostics, foster innovation, and accelerate access to quality-assured diagnostics to improve global health.
She is a member of many WHO and international advisory panels, including the Prize Advisory Panel for the UK Longitude Prize and The European Commission Horizon 2020 Prize to incentivise point-of-care test development to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions and conserve antibiotics for future generations.
She was the recipient of a YM-YWCA Women of Distinction Award, a 5NR Award for Canadian Leaders of Sustainable Development, and her research was featured in a Discovery Channel documentary on Chlamydia Infection and Infertility, and in Fighting Syphilis, a documentary in the highly acclaimed BBC Kill or Cure series.
In 2014, Professor Peeling was awarded the George MacDonald Medal for outstanding contribution to tropical medicine by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, becoming the first woman to receive this honour.

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