![]() The celebrated Australian research biologist Gus Nossal first met Ken Warren in 1976 and was impressed by his ambitious vision: “His passion was to bring the fruits of the new biology, genetics and molecular biology to bear on tropical diseases, which had been the domain of the older generation who had been out in Africa for 20 years, divorced from the new biology” (2014 interview with G Nossal by C Keating see Acknowledgments). He was particularly interested in diarrheal and respiratory diseases (the biggest killers of children), neonatal death and the delivery of vaccines. Everyone scored the same in terms of the metrics of importance, and the aim was to achieve good health care at low cost. Warren adopted a numerical view of global health and was firm in the belief that the lives of children in poor countries mattered just as much as those of children in rich countries. At the time, with over 3 billion people in those countries suffering from infectious diseases, Warren set himself the objective of finding the most cost-effective form of medical intervention to help reduce the sequence of “exposure, disability and death” ( 2). His work was an early attempt to apply modern biomedical technology in the understanding of the mechanisms of disease prevalent in developing countries. Warren had developed a personal research formula in immunoparasitology that had established his status as a renowned investigator in schistosomiasis. A decade earlier, the American medical researcher, Kenneth S Warren identified just such a problem and, more importantly, a scientific program for its alleviation. ![]()
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