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Therese Hesketh

Therese Hesketh MBChB, DCH, MRCPCH, MPH, MFPH, PhD

Pediatrics, Public Health
London, England, United Kingdom

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Therese Hesketh graduated in medicine in 1983 and trained in pediatrics in London. She spent the next eight years working in Asia as a clinician and senior manager for NGOs, WHO, and UNICEF. While based in China. she also worked in Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, and  Myanmar. In China, She was the lead in the establishment of the first pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, in the cities of Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Xian. She also led a nationwide basic neonatal program. Programs elsewhere covered immunization, malaria control, safe motherhood, and systems for cost recovery. She returned to the UK in 1993 and trained in public health in London. She came to the Institute of Child Health as a research fellow. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellowship in 2000 to explore the epidemiology of HIV, HBV, and HCV in China. She was awarded her PhD in 2001. In 2004 she became Associate Professor at the Centre for International Health and Development at the Institute of Child Health and became a Professor of Global Health at the UCL Institute of Global Health in 2008. She was Deputy Director of the Institute of Global Health from 2010 to 2015 and Acting Director in 2015. In 2016 she was asked to establish a Center for Global Health at Zhejiang University in China. She is an honorary consultant at Public Health England. She has conducted a number of consultancies for UNICEF, UNFPA, European Union, Public Health England, and Saves the Children Fund, in the UK, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Egypt, Pakistan, India, UAE, and Sri Lanka.

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