Janet Hemingway

Janet Hemingway (born 13 June 1957) is a British infectious diseases specialist. She is the former director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and founding director of the Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON) and Professor of Tropical Medicine at LSTM. She is currently the president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Hemingway served as director of LSTM between 2001 and 2019, and during this time, it was awarded Higher Education Institution Status & Degree Awarding powers. For her 2012 contributions to the prevention of tropical disease vectors, she received the Commander of the British Empire (CBE). She assumed the role of founding director of iiCON in 2020.

Hemingway also works on advocacy and resource mobilization (and was previously chief executive officer) at the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is currently the international director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Jizan, Saudi Arabia. Provided by Wikipedia