Alan J. Magill
Past Core Course:
- New Tools IV: Developing New Drugs and Strategies for Eradication
- The Global Architecture for Malaria Eradication
- The Path to Malaria Elimination
Dynamics of Malaria Transmission:
- Anti-Malarial Drug Development for Elimination and Eradication
- Challenges and Synergies of Drug and Vaccine Development
As a 2012–2015 course instructor, Dr Alan Magill was director of the Malaria Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. He oversaw the development and implementation of strategies for the foundation’s ultimate goal of the eradication of malaria using current tools and strategies as well as developing new generations of vaccines, diagnostics, and anti‐malarial therapies to be used in novel and innovative ways.
He was board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases from the American Board of Internal Medicine and a professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington with dual appointments as Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. His primary research interests were in malaria and leishmaniasis with an emphasis on new product development in vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics.
Previous positions include program manager (2009–2012) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency where he developed and enabled a plant-based vaccine production capability. He retired after 27 years of active duty service in the US Army in 2010. He was formerly director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics and science director at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, DC.
He was head of Parasitology at the Naval Medical Research Center Detachment in Lima, Peru, and the head of Clinical Research for the Malaria Vaccine Development Unit of the US National Institutes of Health. He was a faculty member for the Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru, and a sought after speaker on travel and tropical medicine-related topics. He participated in numerous national and international advisory committees and workshops and was past president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the International Society of Travel Medicine. He was the lead editor of the 9th edition of Hunter’s Tropical Medicine, the premier clinical textbook of tropical medicine and also a medical editor of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Health Information for International Travel (the Yellow Book) for 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016. He authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, 140 abstracts, and 13 book chapters. He was a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America, and a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Dr Magill died in September 2015. His contributions and spirit live on as the global malaria community works to fulfill his goal of a world free of malaria and other serious tropical infections.