Alan Fenwick, professor in Imperial College London and the director of Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), is a well-known and greatly respected figure in the field of development and public health. He has not only won numerous awards for his research but also as a changemaker, working to use his study to benefit the world. He successfully built a bridge between academia and development, transforming research on paper to treatment plans that save millions of life in Africa.

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The SCI “needs as little as 50 pence (less than one dollar) per person per year, to facilitate delivery of treatments in Africa.” The cost of this intervention is significantly less than other interventions with similar health benefits, which is extremely meaningful in international development with large-scale problems to be addressed and limited funds available. More importantly, his work symbolizes a new type of cost-effective solution – effective altruism, one of the most promising trends in social entrepreneurship that allows well-intentioned altruists to multiply their impact exponentially through strategic changes. And Professor Fenwick is crossing an expanse of thousands of miles from London to New Orleans to share this exciting innovation with you.

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