Fenwick, Professor Alan (b.1942)

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

This small collection comprises material relating to the Gezira Schistosomiasis Control Project in Khartoum, Sudan, including Fenwick's own raw data and the official papers of the project dating back to 1971 when he first arrived in Sudan. It incorporates material relating to the Blue Nile Health Project in Sudan which was initiated, with the support of the WHO, in the late 1970s, to develop better strategies for controlling the major water-associated diseases in tropical irrigation schemes. The collection includes: project planning papers, reports on the BNHP, correspondence, papers and charts, booklets, progress reports, journal publications.

1971-1988

4 boxes

Donated to the library at Wellcome Collection 14/09/1988.

Alan Fenwick was born in 1942 in Liverpool. He trained in medicine and obtained a MSc and PhD from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Most of Alan Fenwick's career has been spent in Africa working on the research and control of schistosomiasis and other intestinal parasitic worms, in Tanzania, Sudan and then Egypt. In Tanzania he was research officer in the Tropical Pesticides Research Institute; in Sudan, where he was based for 17 years, he was a founder of the Blue Nile Health Project; in Egypt, where he was based for 14 years, he was chief of party on a $36 million Schistosomiasis Research Project (SRP). In Egypt, he also supported the National Schistosomiasis Control Programme in the Ministry of Health, funded by the World Bank.

He is currently Professor of Tropical Parasitology in the Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care at Imperial College London. He has been Director of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), at Imperial College London since 2002 when the SCI was first established.

In 1988 he was awarded the OBE. He also holds the Order of Merit of Sudan.

The papers were initially donated to the Wellcome Tropical Institute in 1988 and were transferred to the custody of the Wellcome Library (to the then Contemporary Medical Archives Centre) in 1990 when the WTI closed down.

This collection is currently uncatalogued and cannot be ordered online. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.