Jeremy Farrar, BSc MBBS FRCP DPhil   

Clinical Reader University of Oxford

Director University of Oxford Research Unit

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

190 Ben Ham Tu

Quan 5

Ho Chi Minh City Viet Nam

Tel: 0084 8 836 2225

Fax: 0084 8 923 8904

E-mail: jeremyjf@hcm.vnn.vn

            Jeremy Farrar obtained a BSc in Immunology from the University of London (UK) in 1983, graduated in medicine from London University in 1986, and later was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy (Molecular Immunology) from Oxford University. In 1996 he was appointed as Director of the Oxford University Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh CIty Viet Nam, a collaborative research programme between Viet Nam and Oxford University supported by the Wellcome Trust UK. In 2002 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellowship. His research interests include the pathophysiology and treatment of Dengue, malaria, typhoid, tetanus, and infections of the Central Nervous System and other serious tropical infectious diseases.

            Jeremy Farrar has contributed to over 100 peer reviewed scientific publications. He is a Clinical Reader at Oxford University. He is a member of several WHO and other International advisory committees and a regular reviewer for a number of international journals