Prof Dr David Conway

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

David’s research at LSHTM includes population genetic, experimental, and epidemiological studies of malaria parasites. He works with collaborators in several countries with widely contrasting malaria epidemiology, and he was previously Head of Malaria Research Programme at the MRC Unit in The Gambia where he studied many aspects of the disease in relation to natural infection and transmission. Prior to that he also worked on other infectious diseases including trachoma and strongyloidiasis. He studied at the University of Nottingham and University of Edinburgh and worked at Imperial College London before joining LSHTM.