Senior Program Officer
Infectious Diseases, Global Health Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA, USA

Dr. Anthony David Brandling-Bennett received his undergraduate and medical education at Harvard University and postgraduate training at Stanford University (internal medicine), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (preventive medicine), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (tropical public health).

Dr. Brandling-Bennett began his public health career in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at CDC working in vaccine preventable diseases. He subsequently lived and worked in Central America, Thailand, and Kenya. In Central America, he studied malaria and onchocerciasis, documenting for the latter the relationship between microfilarial infection and eye disease. In Thailand, he helped create the first international Field Epidemiology Training Program, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005, and in Kenya, he established the initial cohorts that have led to CDC's long-term malaria and bed net studies.

In 1989, Dr. Brandling-Bennett joined the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas, where he served as head of epidemiology and director of communicable diseases until 1995, and then became the organization's deputy director. Dr. Brandling-Bennett joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in August 2003 as Senior Program Officer in Infectious Diseases. At the foundation, he manages the portfolio of grants on helminthic infections, the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership for Africa (MACEPA), malaria clinical trials of IPTi, and several projects involving vaccine-preventable diseases.