Kazuyo Ichimori

Visiting Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, and Adjunct Professional Research Fellow, James Cook University, Australia

Dr Kazuyo Ichimori was responsible for the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) and Integrated Vector Management (IVM) in the neglected tropical diseases control department from 2006 to 2013 as a World Health Organization (WHO) Scientist based in Geneva.

Dr Ichimori formerly studied filariasis at the Institute of Medical Science within the University of Tokyo, Japan, and then studied malaria transmission, medical entomology and parasitology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom where she subsequently completed a PhD in Tropical Medicine. Dr Ichimori has previously worked in Kenya, Tanzania and Guatemala on malaria control programmes, and tsetse fly, black fly control and mosquito research.

Since 1992 she worked with the WHO in the Pacific island countries, Samoa, Vanuatu and Fiji. She served as a team leader of the Pacific Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (PacELF) from 1999 to 2006.

Dr Ichimori’s archives were sent to JCU and formed the initial nucleus of the PacELF library.