Richard Feachem, KBE, PhD, DSc(Med)
Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

From 2007 to 2021, Sir Richard was the founding Director of the Global Health Group at IGHS and from 1999 to 2021, he was Professor of Global Health at both UCSF and the University of California Berkeley. From 2002 to 2007, Sir Richard served as founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. From 1995 until 1999, Dr. Feachem was Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Previously (1989-1995), he was Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Feachem co-chaired the Lancet Commission on Malaria Eradication and served on the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, the Commission on HIV and Governance in Africa, the Commission on Investing in Health, and numerous other boards and committees. He currently serves on the Boards of the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (Singapore) and the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (Abu Dhabi). He has published extensively on the epidemiology, and control of infectious diseases, health policy and finance, and other topics in global health.

Professor Feachem holds a Doctor of Science in Medicine from the University of London, and a PhD in Environmental Health from the University of New South Wales. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering by the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine by the University of Queensland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians and of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. Among other honors, Sir Richard was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Richard T. Hewitt Award by the Royal Society of Medicine. Sir Richard was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2007.

• Expanding the Vector Control Toolbox for Malaria Elimination: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.
  Advances in parasitology 2018 Williams YA, Tusting LS, Hocini S, Graves PM, Killeen GF, Kleinschmidt I, Okumu FO, Feachem RGA, Tatarsky A, Gosling RD
• Regional initiatives for malaria elimination: Building and maintaining partnerships.
  PLoS medicine 2017 Lover AA, Harvard KE, Lindawson AE, Smith Gueye C, Shretta R, Gosling R, Feachem R
• Eliminate now: seven critical actions required to accelerate elimination of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
  Malaria journal 2016 Lover AA, Gosling R, Feachem R, Tulloch J
• The path to eradication: a progress report on the malaria-eliminating countries.
  Lancet (London, England) 2016 Newby G, Bennett A, Larson E, Cotter C, Shretta R, Phillips AA, Feachem RG
• [Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].
  Salud publica de Mexico 2015 Jamison DT, Summers LH, Alleyne G, Arrow KJ, Berkley S, Binagwaho A, Bustreo F, Evans D, Feachem RG, Frenk J, Ghosh G, Goldie SJ, Guo Y, Gupta S, Horton R, Kruk ME, Mahmoud A, Mohohlo LK, Ncube M, …
• Malaria 2050: from science to strategy; from evidence to eradication.
  Malaria Journal 2014 Richard Feachem
• The challenge of artemisinin resistance can only be met by eliminating Plasmodium falciparum malaria across the Greater Mekong subregion.
  Malaria journal 2014 Smith Gueye C, Newby G, Hwang J, Phillips AA, Whittaker M, MacArthur JR, Gosling RD, Feachem RG
• Communicating and monitoring surveillance and response activities for malaria elimination: China's "1-3-7" strategy.
  PLoS medicine 2014 Cao J, Sturrock HJ, Cotter C, Zhou S, Zhou H, Liu Y, Tang L, Gosling RD, Feachem RG, Gao Q
• Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation.
  Lancet (London, England) 2013 Jamison DT, Summers LH, Alleyne G, Arrow KJ, Berkley S, Binagwaho A, Bustreo F, Evans D, Feachem RG, Frenk J, Ghosh G, Goldie SJ, Guo Y, Gupta S, Horton R, Kruk ME, Mahmoud A, Mohohlo LK, Ncube M, …
• Mass drug administration for the control and elimination of Plasmodium vivax malaria: an ecological study from Jiangsu province, China.
  Malaria journal 2013 Hsiang MS, Hwang J, Tao AR, Liu Y, Bennett A, Shanks GD, Cao J, Kachur SP, Feachem RG, Gosling RD, Gao Q
• Malaria eradication: is it possible? Is it worth it? Should we do it?
  The Lancet. Global health 2013 Liu J, Modrek S, Gosling RD, Feachem RG
• The changing epidemiology of malaria elimination: new strategies for new challenges.
  Lancet (London, England) 2013 Cotter C, Sturrock HJ, Hsiang MS, Liu J, Phillips AA, Hwang J, Gueye CS, Fullman N, Gosling RD, Feachem RG
• Malaria elimination gaining ground in the Asia Pacific.
  Malaria journal 2012 Gosling RD, Whittaker M, Gueye CS, Fullman N, Baquilod M, Kusriastuti R, Feachem RG
• Progress towards elimination: a case study of Sri Lanka.
  Malaria Journal 2012 Gavvrie NL Galappaththv, Cara Smith Gueve, Rabindra R Abeyasinghe, Jim G Kahn, Richard GA Feachem
• Malaria control and elimination in Sri Lanka: documenting progress and success factors in a conflict setting.
  PloS one 2012 Abeyasinghe RR, Galappaththy GN, Smith Gueye C, Kahn JG, Feachem RG
• The economic benefits of malaria elimination: do they include increases in tourism?
  Malaria journal 2012 Modrek S, Liu J, Gosling R, Feachem RG
• The Global Fund: getting the reforms right.
  Lancet (London, England) 2011 Feachem RG
• Public-private integrated partnerships demonstrate the potential to improve health care access, quality, and efficiency.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2011 Sekhri N, Feachem R, Ni A
• Evidence-based policymaking in global health - the payoffs and pitfalls.
  Evidence-based medicine 2011 Yamey G, Feachem R
• Feasibility of malaria elimination – Author's reply.
  The Lancet 2011 Richard GA Feachem
• Call to action: priorities for malaria elimination.
  Lancet (London, England) 2010 Feachem RG, Phillips AA, Targett GA, Snow RW
• Costs and financial feasibility of malaria elimination.
  Lancet (London, England) 2010 Sabot O, Cohen JM, Hsiang MS, Kahn JG, Basu S, Tang L, Zheng B, Gao Q, Zou L, Tatarsky A, Aboobakar S, Usas J, Barrett S, Cohen JL, Jamison DT, Feachem RG
• Shrinking the malaria map: progress and prospects.
  Lancet (London, England) 2010 Feachem RG, Phillips AA, Hwang J, Cotter C, Wielgosz B, Greenwood BM, Sabot O, Rodriguez MH, Abeyasinghe RR, Ghebreyesus TA, Snow RW
• Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action.
  Lancet (London, England) 2010 Farmer P, Frenk J, Knaul FM, Shulman LN, Alleyne G, Armstrong L, Atun R, Blayney D, Chen L, Feachem R, Gospodarowicz M, Gralow J, Gupta S, Langer A, Lob-Levyt J, Neal C, Mbewu A, Mired D, Piot P, …
• A moment of truth for global health.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2010 Feachem R, Yamey G, Schrade C
• Malaria elimination in Asia-Pacific: an under-told story.
  Lancet (London, England) 2010 Hsiang MS, Abeyasinghe R, Whittaker M, Feachem RG
• Malaria: 2 years in the fast lane.
  Lancet (London, England) 2009 Feachem RG, Phillips AA
• Oxfam must shed its ideological bias to be taken seriously.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2009 Montague D, Feachem R, Feachem NS, Koehlmoos TP, Kinlaw H, Smith R
• The fallacy of impartiality: competing interest bias in academic publications.
  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2009 Smith R, Feachem R, Feachem NS, Koehlmoos TP, Kinlaw H
• Is private health care the answer to the health problems of the world's poor?
  PLoS medicine 2008 Hanson K, Gilson L, Goodman C, Mills A, Smith R, Feachem R, Feachem NS, Koehlmoos TP, Kinlaw H
• Seeing (RED).
  Lancet (London, England) 2008 Feachem R
• A new global malaria eradication strategy.
  Lancet (London, England) 2008 Feachem R, Sabot O
• Global malaria control in the 21st century: a historic but fleeting opportunity.
  JAMA 2007 Feachem RG, Sabot OJ
• The Global Fund 2001-2006: a review of the evidence.
  Global public health 2007 Feachem R, Sabot O
• An examination of the Global Fund at 5 years.
  Lancet (London, England) 2006 Feachem RG, Sabot OJ
• Moving towards true integration.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2005 Feachem RG, Sekhri NK
• The research imperative: fighting AIDS, TB and malaria.
  Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2004 Feachem RG
• Public health. A global response to AIDS: lessons learned, next steps.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2004 Piot P, Feachem RG, Lee JW, Wolfensohn JD
• 11 Unitary environmental classification of water-and excreta-related communicable diseases.
  Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology 2003 D.D. Mara, R.G.A. Feachem
• Authors' reply to getting more for their dollar: Kaiser v the NHS.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2002 Feachem RG, Sekhri N, White K
• Getting more for their dollar: a comparison of the NHS with California's Kaiser Permanente.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2002 Feachem RG, Sekhri NK, White KL
• Infotech and biotech: learning the lessons.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001 Feachem RG
• Why global health matters to US primary care physicians.
  The Western journal of medicine 2001 Peabody JW, Feachem RG
• The future of the NHS: confronting the big questions.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2000 Feachem RG
• Health systems: more evidence, more debate.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000 Feachem RG
• Poverty and inequity: a proper focus for the new century.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000 Feachem RG
• The role of the World Bank in international health: renewed commitment and partnership.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2000 de Beyer JA, Preker AS, Feachem RG
• Understanding the role of governments in global tobacco control.
  Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic 2000 P. Jha, T. E. Novotny, R. G. A. Feachem
• Water- and Excreta-Related Diseases: Unitary Environmental Classification.
  Journal of Environmental Engineering 1999 D. D. Mara, R. G. A. Feachem
• A new century for international public health.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1999 Feachem RG
• A new role for the Bulletin.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1999 Feachem RG
• The World Bank's contribution to tropical medicine: diagnosis and prognosis.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1998 Feachem RG
• The spirit of Dakar: a call for action on malaria.
  Nature 1997 Bruno JM, Feachem R, Godal T, Nchinda T, Ogilvie B, Mons B, Mshana R, Radda G, Samba E, Schwartz M, Varmus H, Diallo S, Doumbo O, Greenwood B, Kilama W, Miller LH, da Silva LP
• Comment from the World Bank.
  AIDS (London, England) 1995 Feachem R, Musgrove P, Elmendorf AE
• Air pollution and mortality in Central and Eastern Europe.
  European Journal of Public Health 1995 MARTIN BOBAK, RICHARD G.A. FEACHEM
• The Health of Adults in the Developing World.
  Southern Economic Journal 1994 Steven H. Chasin, Richard G. A. Feachem, Tord Kjellstrom, Christopher J. L. Murray, Mead Over, Margaret A. Phillips
• World Development Report 1993: Investing in health.
  Journal of Public Health 1994 Richard G. A. Feachem
• Health decline in eastern Europe.
  Nature 1994 Feachem R
• The Health of Adults in the Developing World.
  Population and Development Review 1993 Eileen M. Crimmins, Richard G. A. Feachem, Tord Kjellstrom, Christopher J. L. Murray, Mead Over, Margaret A. Phillips
• Adult health: a legitimate concern for developing countries.
  American journal of public health 1993 Phillips M, Feachem RG, Murray CJ, Over M, Kjellstrom T
• Fewer hospitals, bigger medical schools.
  Lancet (London, England) 1993 Green M, Feachem R, Dollery C
• Excreta disposal behaviour and latrine ownership in relation to the risk of childhood diarrhoea in Sri Lanka.
  International journal of epidemiology 1992 Mertens TE, Jaffar S, Fernando MA, Cousens SN, Feachem RG
• Health status in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.
  Health Policy and Planning 1992 MARTIN BOBAK, RICHARD GA FEACHEM
• A study of the association between improved sanitation facilities and children's height in Lesotho.
  European journal of clinical nutrition 1991 Daniels DL, Cousens SN, Makoae LN, Feachem RG
• Reduction in diarrhoeal diseases in children in rural Bangladesh by environmental and behavioural modifications.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1990 Aziz KM, Hoque BA, Hasan KZ, Patwary MY, Huttly SR, Rahaman MM, Feachem RG
• Childhood diarrhoea in Sri Lanka: a case-control study of the impact of improved water sources.
  Tropical medicine and parasitology : official organ of Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft and of Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) 1990 Mertens TE, Fernando MA, Cousens SN, Kirkwood BR, Marshall TF, Feachem RG
• Health impact evaluation of improved water supplies and hygiene practices in Sri Lanka: background and methodology.
  Tropical medicine and parasitology : official organ of Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft and of Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) 1990 Mertens TE, Cousens SN, Fernando MA, Kirkwood BR, Merkle F, Korte R, Feachem RG
• The Imo State (Nigeria) Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project, 1. Description of the project, evaluation methods, and impact on intervening variables.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1990 Blum D, Emeh RN, Huttly SR, Dosunmu-Ogunbi O, Okeke N, Ajala M, Okoro JI, Akujobi C, Kirkwood BR, Feachem RG
• The Imo State (Nigeria) Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project, 2. Impact on dracunculiasis, diarrhoea and nutritional status.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1990 Huttly SR, Blum D, Kirkwood BR, Emeh RN, Okeke N, Ajala M, Smith GS, Carson DC, Dosunmu-Ogunbi O, Feachem RG
• A case-control study of the impact of improved sanitation on diarrhoea morbidity in Lesotho.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1990 Daniels DL, Cousens SN, Makoae LN, Feachem RG
• Adult mortality in developing countries.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1990 Murray CJ, Feachem RG
• Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in the domestic environment of a Malaysian village.
  Epidemiology and infection 1989 Vadivelu J, Feachem RG, Drasar BS, Harrison TJ, Parasakthi N, Thambypillai V, Puthucheary SD
• Persistent diarrhoea in a rural area of Bangladesh: a community-based longitudinal study.
  International journal of epidemiology 1989 Huttly SR, Hoque BA, Aziz KM, Hasan KZ, Patwary MY, Rahaman MM, Feachem RG
• The use of nutritional status as a second outcome measure in case-control studies of environmental risk factors for diarrhoeal diseases.
  International journal of epidemiology 1989 Cousens SN, Feachem RG, Daniels DL
• Identifying health problems and health research priorities in developing countries.
  The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1989 Feachem RG, Graham WJ, Timaeus IM
• Tubewell water consumption and its determinants in a rural area of Bangladesh.
  The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1989 Hoque BA, Huttly SR, Aziz KM, Patwary MY, Feachem RG
• Disability from dracunculiasis: effect on mobility.
  Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 1989 Smith GS, Blum D, Huttly SR, Okeke N, Kirkwood BR, Feachem RG
• Infant feeding and risk of severe diarrhoea in Basrah city, Iraq: a case-control study.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1989 Mahmood DA, Feachem RG, Huttly SR
• Risk to UK heterosexuals of contracting AIDS abroad.
  Lancet (London, England) 1988 Feachem RG, Phillips-Howard PA
• Epidemiology and tropical public health: current and future contributions with particular emphasis on the role of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1988 Feachem RG
• Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of rotavirus- and EPEC-associated hospitalized infantile diarrhoea in Basrah, Iraq.
  Journal of tropical pediatrics 1987 Mahmood DA, Feachem RG
• The bacteriological quality of traditional water sources in north-eastern Imo State, Nigeria.
  Epidemiology and infection 1987 Blum D, Huttly SR, Okoro JI, Akujobi C, Kirkwood BR, Feachem RG
• Feeding and nutritional status among infants in Basrah City, Iraq: a cross-sectional study.
  Human nutrition. Clinical nutrition 1987 Mahmood DA, Feachem RG
• Comparison of five assays for the heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli.
  Journal of medical microbiology 1987 Vadivelu J, Dunn DT, Feachem RG, Drasar BS, Cox NP, Harrison TJ, Lloyd BJ
• The effects of distance and season on the use of boreholes in northeastern Imo State, Nigeria.
  The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1987 Blum D, Feachem RG, Huttly SR, Kirkwood BR, Emeh RN
• Evidence of a prolonged association between low birthweight and paediatric diarrhoea in Sri Lanka.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1987 Mertens TE, Cousens SN, Feachem RG
• The epidemiology of acute diarrhoea in a rural community in Imo State, Nigeria.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1987 Huttly SR, Blum D, Kirkwood BR, Emeh RN, Feachem RG
• Membrane filter assay for detection of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in epidemiological studies.
  Lancet (London, England) 1986 Vadivelu J, Lloyd BJ, Drasar BS, Feachem RG, Cox NP, Harrison TJ
• The impact of physico-chemical stress on the toxigenicity of Vibrio cholerae.
  The Journal of hygiene 1986 Miller CJ, Drasar BS, Feachem RG, Hayes RJ
• Cholera epidemiology in developed and developing countries: new thoughts on transmission, seasonality, and control.
  Lancet (London, England) 1985 Miller CJ, Feachem RG, Drasar BS
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: chemoprophylaxis.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1985 de Zoysa I, Feachem RG
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: improving water supplies and excreta disposal facilities.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1985 Esrey SA, Feachem RG, Hughes JM
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: prevention of low birth weight.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1985 Ashworth A, Feachem RG
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: rotavirus and cholera immunization.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1985 de Zoysa I, Feachem RG
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: weaning education.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1985 Ashworth A, Feachem RG
• Response of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae 01 to physico-chemical stresses in aquatic environments.
  The Journal of hygiene 1984 Miller CJ, Drasar BS, Feachem RG
• Home-based oral rehydration therapy in rural Zimbabwe.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1984 De Zoysa I, Carson D, Feachem R, Kirkwood B, Lindsay-Smith E, Loewenson R
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: promotion of breast-feeding.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1984 Feachem RG, Koblinsky MA
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: promotion of personal and domestic hygiene.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1984 Feachem RG
• Perceptions of childhood diarrhoea and its treatment in rural Zimbabwe.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 1984 de Zoysa I, Carson D, Feachem R, Kirkwood B, Lindsay-Smith E, Loewenson R
• Preparation of sugar-salt solutions.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1984 de Zoysa I, Kirkwood B, Feachem R, Lindsay-Smith E
• Measuring the impact of water supply and sanitation investments on diarrhoeal diseases: problems of methodology.
  International journal of epidemiology 1983 Blum D, Feachem RG
• Diarrhoeal disease control: reviews of potential interventions.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1983 Feachem RG, Hogan RC, Merson MH
• Excreta disposal facilities and intestinal parasitism in urban Africa: preliminary studies in Botswana, Ghana and Zambia.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1983 Feachem RG, Guy MW, Harrison S, Iwugo KO, Marshall T, Mbere N, Muller R, Wright AM
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: measles immunization.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1983 Feachem RG, Koblinsky MA
• Interventions for the control of diarrhoeal diseases among young children: supplementary feeding programmes.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1983 Feachem RG
• Cholera and estuarine salinity in Calcutta and London.
  Lancet (London, England) 1982 Miller CJ, Drasar BS, Feachem RG
• Environmental aspects of cholera epidemiology. III. Transmission and control.
  Tropical diseases bulletin 1982 Feachem RG
• Environmental aspects of cholera epidemiology. II. Occurrence and survival of Vibrio cholerae in the environment.
  Tropical diseases bulletin 1981 Feachem R, Miller C, Drasar B
• Environmental aspects of cholera epidemiology. I. A review of selected reports of endemic and epidemic situations during 1961-1980.
  Tropical diseases bulletin 1981 Feachem RG
• The water and sanitation decade.
  The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1981 Feachem R
• Enteroviruses in the environment.
  Tropical diseases bulletin 1981 Feachem R, Garelick H, Slade J
• Sanitation and Culex pipiens mosquitoes: a brief review.
  The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1981 Curtis CF, Feachem RG
• Technical and public health aspects of low cost sanitation programme planning.
  The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1980 Mara D, Feachem R
• Bacterial standards for drinking water quality in developing countries.
  Lancet (London, England) 1980 Feachem R
• Rural water and sanitation. Community participation in appropriate water supply and sanitation technologies: the mythology for the Decade.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 1980 Feachem RG
• Seasonal dimensions to rural porverty: analysis and practical implications.
  The Journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 1979 Chambers R, Longhurst R, Bradley D, Feachem R
• Closure to “Water Supplies for Low-Income Communities in Developing Countries”.
  Journal of Environmental Engineering 1977 Richard G. Feachem
• CHAPTER I The Human Ecologist as Superman?.
  Subsistence and Survival 1977 RICHARD G.A. FEACHEM
• CHAPTER VI Environmental Health Engineering as Human Ecology: An Example From New Guinea.
  Subsistence and Survival 1977 RICHARD G.A. FEACHEM
• Is cholera primarily water-borne.
  Lancet (London, England) 1976 Feachem R