Anthony Solomon
Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO)
Chief Scientist
Dr Anthony Solomon PhD FRCP, is an infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist. He is Chief Scientist in the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at WHO. His main research interest has been to generate evidence for best practice in the control and elimination of the blinding eye condition trachoma.
Dr Anthony Solomon was born in Brisbane and undertook his medical training at the University of Queensland. After residency at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, he completed the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine before taking up a research post in the Northern Region of Ghana. There, in collaboration with the National Eye Care Programme, he helped to develop a method for distributing azithromycin for trachoma elimination. In Tanzania he established a Wellcome Trust-funded trachoma field research unit carrying out longitudinal studies on the impact of community-based treatment with azithromycin. He completed specialist training in Infectious Diseases in the UK and was appointed as a Consultant Physician at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow at LSHTM. He was Chief Scientist to the Global Trachoma Mapping Project. Since 2014 he has been at the World Health