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Michael B. Krawinkel has completed an undergraduate Training in Medicine, and a ostgraduate training in pediatrics. From 1999 to 2016, he has been a full Professor of Human Nutrition/International Nutrition and Pediatrics at the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany, and continues to work with the International Nutrition Working Group of the Institute of Nutritional Sciences of the University in Giessen, Germany.
He has been teaching Child Health/Pediatrics in the Tropics and International Nutrition in various German universities and the University of Vienna(Austria), the Donau University in Krems (Austria) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Rehovot(Israel). He also lectured timewise in continous education programs of medical doctors in Germany for nutritional medicine and on paediatric nutrition in Tripolis and Bengasi, Libya.
Michael Krawinkel has experience in research on micronutrient deficiencies, childhood malnutrition, diet and diabetes mellitus type II, infant and young child feeding(IYCF).
He has been involved in research projects with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO) on complementary feeding, with the World Vegetable Center(AVRDC) on bitter gourd and diabetes mellitus, with the Karolinska Institutet /Sweden and eight other European partners others on fruit and vegetable consumption of school children.
Recent research was focused on the nutritional use of Baobab in East Africa (BAOFOOD-project) and nutrition of garment workers in Cambodia (LUPROGAR-project) as well as the increase in dietary diversity in East Africa (HealthyLAND-project).
His list of scientific publications counts 104 entries in PubMed, and 1.490 entries in Google Scholar.
He has been time wise Advisor to the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ/GIZ), KfW-Development Bank (Germany), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and ‘ Welthungerhilfe /German Agro Action’, to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Medical Research Council, South Africa, and the Danish Council for Strategic Research. He also was a member of the Steering Committee of the Civil Society Group in the Scaling Up Nutrition
network (SUN) in 2013-15.
Prof Elizabeth Tayler works on antibiotic policies at City St Georges University in the United Kingdom.
Prior to this she worked as the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Regional Advisor for Infection Control and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and as a senior advisor to WHO Egypt, Liz had previously worked on AMR in WHO Geneva for seven years.
Over which time she led the team supporting National Action plans, establishing the AMR Multi-Partner Trust Fund and the Quadripartite Strategic Framework for AMR and developed the Tripartite AMR country self assessment survey TRACCS, and AMR monitoring framework. She has worked intensively with teams at regional and country levels.
Liz has spent much of her professional life working for the UK Department for International Development – as head of human development in Nigeria, Tanzania, and the African region.
She has also worked for the UK Department of Health on the establishment of the Fleming Fund.
Liz trained as a doctor at Oxford and Cambridge universities started life as a physician and then trained in public health at Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She has worked as a director of Quality and Infection control in the UK NHS and for humanitarian organisations.
Ibrahim had his medical training and training in Clinical Pediatrics at Cairo University. He has clinical experience at the Embaba Fever Hospital, the major infectious diseases hospital in Egypt where he was managing the Pediatric Infectious Diseases department.
He started his medical research career after joining the staff of the U.S. Navy Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-3) in Cairo where, as a Clinical Epidemiologist, he participated in a number of enteric disease and enteric vaccine studies and co-directed the U.S. Military Tropical Medicine Course.
During his twelve years at NAMRU-3, Ibrahim also served as a co-chair of the Institutional review Board (IRB). Ibrahim also participated in many Outbreak Investigations through the collaboration of US NAMRU-3 and the Egyptian Ministry of Health.
In 2008, Ibrahim joined Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics in Siena, Italy where he has been working on the development of Meningitis and Influenza Vaccines as a Senior Epidemiologist, before he joined the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in November 2012.
Ibrahim also joined the faculty of the Global Health Department; University of Washington and he is focused on the Masters of Global Health program. Ibrahim is a member of many scientific societies and a reviewer in several medical journals. Ibrahim also serves as a consultant to the WHO Immunizations, Vaccines, and Biologicals Program.
