Tikki Pang

Director, World Health Organization (Research Policy and Cooperation)

Email: pangt@who.int
Webpage link: http://www.phcris.org.au/conference/2009/documents/Pang_09.pdf

Dr Tikki PANG is presently Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining WHO, he was Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Postgraduate Studies & Research, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He holds a PhD in Immunology-Microbiology from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK), Institute of Biology (UK), American Academy of Microbiology (USA), Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, and Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS); and a Member of the International Molecular Biology Network (IMBN). Also, he is currently Secretary, WHO Research Ethics Review Committee, and Secretary, WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research. Research interests are in epidemiology, pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis and prevention of infectious diseases, and in health research policy, health research systems, best practices in research, development of research capabilities in developing countries, and linkages between research and policy. He has published more than 200 scientific articles and 6 books on a variety of topics.