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Gideon Barak Agembo Okelo

G.B.A. Okelo, who is a Kenyan, is currently the Executive Director and Secretary General of the African Academy of Sciences having been the Secretary General of the organization since 1989. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is a Senior Consultant Physician, specialist in Infectious Diseases and a Global Authority on Echinocococcosis.

Dr. Okelo was educated at and holds qualifications from the Universities of Delhi, Calcutta, Edinburgh Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the University of Nairobi. He is a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the African Academy of Sciences, the Third World Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Institute of Biology, London.

He has been Professor of Medicine at the University of Nairobi since 1989, Executive Secretary of Network of African Scientific Organizations from 1990-1995, Secretary of Network of African Academy of Science (NASAC) since 2001, Chairman of Academic Department of Internal Medicine University of Nairobi from 1986-1990, Dean Faculty of Medicine from 1990-1991 and the Director of Medical Services for Kenya from 1991-1994.

Dr. Okelo has published over 100 peer reviewed papers in international journals and has authored several books including: Human Hydatidosis with Special Reference to Kenya, Anti-microbial Agents Manual, Textbook of Tropical and Geographical Medicine, Medicine in Tropics and Sub-tropics, Common Venomous Bites and Stings in Kenya. He has presented many papers at international scientific conferences worldwide and has been an external examiner at many universities. Dr. Okelo is on the Advisory Committee to the Editors (ACE) of the book Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, sponsored by WHO, World Bank, and the Fogarty Foundation.

Finally in his capacity as the Secretary General and Acting Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences, Dr. Okelo has participated in many debates on science and technology, and research for science-led development in Africa.