Diego-Abelardo Alvarez-Hernandez
Faculty of Health Sciences
Anahuac University North Campus
Mexico
Biography
Diego Alvarez has his expertise on awareness, education, research and fundraising for Neglected Tropical Diseases. As a medical surgeon with interest and passion for infectious diseases, he is currently studying a Master’s degree of Medical Sciences at Anahuac University North Campus while he does laboratory research on Chagas disease at the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Also he has been working for several years on Antimicrobial Resistance at the Health Sciences Faculty of the Anahuac University North Campus. Nowadays he is working at the Coordination of Medical Services of the Mexican Red Cross PAR Huixquilucan Office and is a former member of the END7 Campus Leaders Council and of the Young Researchers Track of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute. He just joined the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Abstract
Abstract : Neglected Tropical Diseases: Road to Control, Elimination and Eradication by 2020