Keynote Speaker: McAuley Oration

The Centre for International Health is pleased to host Dr Stephen Luby as our 2012 McKinlay Oration Keynote Speaker.

Dr Stephen Luby's profile

Dr Stephen Luby has served at the International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) since 2004 where he currently directs the Centre for Communicable Diseases. He is seconded from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is the Country Director for CDC in Bangladesh.

Dr. Luby studied philosophy and earned a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Creighton University in 1981. Dr. Luby earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas in 1986 and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital. He studied epidemiology and public health in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and the Preventive Medicine Residency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Luby's career has included an EIS assignment to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control 1990-1; work with the CDC Malaria Branch in 1992; from 1993-8 Dr. Luby directed the Epidemiology Unit of the Community Health Sciences Department at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan; and from 1998-2004 Dr. Luby worked as a Medical Epidemiologist in the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch of the CDC in Atlanta causes and prevention of diarrheal disease in settings where diarrhea is a leading cause of childhood death.

Dr. Luby's research focuses on public health, water, sanitation, and communicable disease. He has spent much of his career in the developing countries where these issues have the highest toll on health. He has published over 180 papers in this field. Dr. Luby's work has recently been profiled by the Lancet.

More information

• Dr. Luby's Lancet profile