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Uche Amazigo Doctor of Science

Award of Doctor of Science: Dr Uche Amazigo Through her pioneering research and visionary leadership skills Nigeria-based public health specialist Dr Uche Amazigo has made a palpable impact on the health of communities in a number of West African countries afflicted by a neglected disease known as river blindness (Onchocerciasis). Dr Amazigo's innovative research on the disease formed the basis for the UN/World Bank-administered African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC). In addition, she successfully coordinated and implemented the World Health Organisation's African programme for river blindness control. Based on community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI), the programme allowed for community participation in one of the largest control programmes undertaken for a single disease. Showing exemplary leadership skills, she repositioned APOC from a river blindness control body to an elimination programme, in the process engaging bilateral and multi-lateral donors and private sectors to support over 120 000 communities in the control of river blindness in Africa. Dr Amazigo's research experience embraces strategies for the control of neglected tropical diseases and the formulation of community-directed interventions. She has also undertaken extensive research on issue of adolescent reproductive health, producing Broken Wings, a film on teenage pregnancy for the first World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Originally trained in public health and parisitology, Dr Amazigo is today an experienced scientist and a competent administrator with broad expertise in international and community health. She has also proved her ability to forge strategic public-private partnerships, identity critical research areas and develop and implement policy frameworks and strategy development plans. Dr Amazigo has worked with both bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, governments, foundations, civil society and the public sector and has extensive experience in coordinating and networking, and building successful partnerships. She was instrumental in APOC's success in mobilising more than US$80 million between 2006 and 2011. Dr Amazigo has been an influential member of a variety of organisations and institutions, including the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the White House Summit of International Development, the Japan Centre for International Exchange, the World Health Organisation, and the United States Academy of Science. A prolific researcher, she has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of community health, public health and parasitology. An international consultant on public health, with an emphasis on community-directed interventions, her clients include such organisations as the United Nations and the World Bank, USAID and the World Health Organisation. For her pioneering scientific work, her excellence in scholarship, her visionary leadership, and her tireless commitment to improving the lives of poor and vulnerable communities on the African continent, the University of KwaZulu-Natal honours Dr Amazigo with its highest award, the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa. University of KwaZulu-Natal www.ukzn.ac.za/Homepage UKZN Facebook page   / ukzn1   UKZN Twitter   / ukzn   UKZN Online Newsletter http://www.ukzn.ac.za/media-publicati...