Dr Gabriel Parra-Henao
Director, Centro de Investigación en Salud para el Trópico (Center for Tropical Health Research), Cooperative University of Colombia (Santa Marta, Colombia)
Biography
Dr Gabriel Parra-Henao is Professor of Medical Entomology and Ecology of Disease Vectors, School of Medicine, and Director, Center for Tropical Health Research, Cooperative University of Colombia.
He graduated in Biology from the University of Antioquia (1998), and obtained a MSc in Entomology from the National University of Colombia and a PhD in Biology (Medical Entomology) from the University of Antioquia.
Besides accumulating years of experience in field work and implementation of control programmes, Professor Parra-Henao has focused on ecology of disease vectors and tropical medicine, particularly Chagas disease, dengue and leishmaniasis.