Wendy Harrison

Wendy has a Veterinary Degree from the Royal Veterinary College and has worked in mixed animal practice prior to completing a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology at St. Georges Hospital Medical School and a post doc in comparative vascular biology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia. Wendy also holds a Master’s degree in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Wendy joined the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) based at Imperial College as Deputy Director in April 2009 from the Comparative Medicine and Biology Unit at GlaxoSmithKline where she worked in an advisory role across a range of therapeutic drug development areas including inflammation and infection. In 2019 the SCI group moved out of Imperial College to form their own entity the SCI Foundation of which Wendy is the founding CEO. Wendy also hold an honorary Professorship at the Royal Veterinary College. Wendy has a particular interested in integrated multi-disciplinary approaches to public health in developing countries with a focus on capitalizing on potential synergies between human and animal health programs. Wendy is currently Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.