Professor Richard Price FMedSci

Ric Price is Professor of Global Health at the University of Oxford and is the worlds’ leading clinical expert on vivax malaria. His research has highlighted the importance of this malaria parasite, which causes hundreds of millions of illnesses each year and is now becoming the main cause of malaria in Asia and the Americas. He has coordinated, led and successfully guided to completion the largest ever prospective studies of vivax malaria conducted across the tropics from Ethiopia to Indonesia. This research has contributed significantly to international policies and practices, and has had a substantial impact on health and wellbeing in vivax endemic areas.