The Wellcome Trust’s head of population health will take up a new role at the end of March to strengthen the global response to infectious disease epidemics, the UK organisation announced on 27 February.
Jimmy Whitworth will move to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the three-year stint. Initially, his work will involve coordinating and stimulating research in Ebola-ravaged regions of West Africa.
He will be based both at the LSHTM and in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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