Maxine Whittaker
Maxine A. Whittaker, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FAFPHM GAICD is the Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases at James Cook University and Civil Society Representative to the Global Fund 3rd Regional Artemisinin Initiative in the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Steering Committee. She is a public health physician, applied medical anthropologist and health systems researcher who is an international expert on improving the health systems and services to increase accessibility and acceptability of quality services to populations with a special focus on malaria and neglected tropical diseases and a public health leader in One Health (human-animal-environment-plant interface) and a particular focus on equity and community ownership and engagement. She has worked in global health for more than 35 years and lived/worked in many countries in Africa, Asia and Oceania. She has published more than 120 peer reviewed publications, (h Index of 31, i10 index of 67), and written several project documents for development partners and countries, policy briefings, briefing papers, book chapters and commissioned papers. Since 2010 Professor Whittaker has been a Principal, Chief or Co-Investigator in more than $85,000,000 worth of nationally and internationally competitive, industry and other research grants and contracts. She is Chair of the Western Pacific Region WHO Technical Advisory Group on Reaching Unreached Populations. She retired in October 2021 from the position of Dean of the College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences at James Cook University. In 2017 she was awarded the Royal Australasian College of Physicians International Medal, in recognition of outstanding service in developing countries.
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