Tropical Threats: Essential Guide to Parasitic Diseases

John A. Bartlett, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, Global Health, and Nursing at Duke University Medical Center. He is certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Bartlett serves as the Associate Director for Research at the Duke Global Health Institute, Co-Director of the Duke University Center for AIDS Research, and a Senior Fellow within the Duke University Health Inequalities Program. He also co-chairs the Duke University Africa Initiative. Dr. Bartlett has received numerous teaching awards from Duke medical students and house staff, and he is a past recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award. His work focuses heavily on capacity building at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, Tanzania.

Franklin Mosha is a Professor of Parasitology and Medical Entomology at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUC) and the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Moshi PAMVERC site. With a 38-year research career, he has been involved in malaria and filariasis vector control research, as well as clinical malaria trials in Tanzania in collaboration with NIMR, TPRI, and KCMUC. His research also includes mosquito ecological studies in Kenya with ICIPE and onchocerciasis vector control studies in Mali with OCP-WHO. Dr. Mosha has held significant administrative roles, including Director of the Tropical Pesticides Research Institute, Director of the Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, and Director for Research & Consultancies at KCMUC.

Mramba Nyindo studied veterinary science and animal husbandry at the University of the Panjab in Lahore, Pakistan, and earned a second degree in veterinary medicine from the University of East Africa, Nairobi campus. He also holds an MS in veterinary medical science and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1970-1975), where he became the first to culture Ehrlichia canis, the causative agent of canine ehrlichiosis (tropical canine pancytopenia), a fatal disease of dogs transmitted by the hard tick Rhipicephalus sanguinus. In 1972, he won the JO Albert award and was commended as the best graduate student at the College of Veterinary Medicine. His PhD research focused on cell-mediated and humoral immune responses in dogs and ponies infected with Ehrlichia canis and E. equi, respectively. An advocate of Team-based Learning (TBL), he introduced this pedagogical method at KCMU Co. in July 2012. Mramba Nyindo has worked with the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) and the Institute of Primate Research (IPR) at the National Museum of Kenya. He is currently an Associate Professor in Parasitology, Entomology, and Immunology, as well as the Head of the Department of Parasitology and Entomology at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College. His research interests are focused on neglected tropical diseases, including worms, protozoans, and vectors, with a particular emphasis on schistosomiasis. He is also interested in prostate cancer and the cell biology of prostate cancer in East African patients and has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals.