Dr. Koert Ritmeijer Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), The Netherlands

Koert Ritmeijer (MSc, MPH, Ph.D) is a medical and public health scientist, working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 1989. He is coordinator Neglected Tropical Diseases in MSF Operational Centre Amsterdam. Since the mid-90’s he is responsible for strategic and technical support to the MSF visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis programmes... read morein East Africa and South Asia. Over the past 25 years he has led on many operational and clinical field research projects aiming to improve diagnostic algorithms, treatments and patient outcomes, and control of leishmaniasis under resource-limited field conditions. In 2010 he was awarded the Eijkman Medal, the Netherlands award for tropical medicine research. He has been a member of numerous WHO Expert Consultations, and is member of various Scientific Advisory Committees.