The Anglo-Ethiopian Society
Lecture - The Global Trachoma Mapping Project
Professor Anthony Solomon
Tuesday 26th November 2013
7:00pm, Room B102 Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Public lecture (all welcome)
Trachoma is the most common infectious cause of blindness. It is found in poor rural communities where access to health care, water and sanitation are inadequate. Ethiopia has a greater burden of trachoma than any other country. This lecture will explore prospects for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem by the year 2020.
Anthony Solomon is a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow/Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at LSHTM, the Chief Scientist to the Global Trachoma Mapping Project, and a Consultant Physician at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.