Gordon Covell: Difference between revisions

Sir '''Gordon Covell''' (20 October 1887 – 4 October 1975) was a [[physician]] and a [[Major General (United Kingdom)|major general]] in the army of [[British India]], and a leading global expert on [[Malaria]] disease control and eradication efforts in the middle of the 20th century.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=The Therapeutics of Malaria in Africa|url=https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/64145/WHO_Mal_53.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=May 6, 1953|title=Sir Gordon Covell Will Deliver Cutter Talk at Health School|work=The Harvard Crimson|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1953/5/6/sir-gordon-covell-will-deliver-cutter/|access-date=26 July 2022}}</ref> He was member of the expert committee on malaria set up by the WHO from 1948 to 1958, of which he served as the secretary.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|date=1962-05-01|title=Discussion|url=https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article/56/3/194/1919640|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene|language=en|volume=56|issue=3|pages=194–201|doi=10.1016/0035-9203(62)90154-2|issn=0035-9203}}</ref> At that time, he was also an advisor to the British Ministry of Health and the Director of the Malaria Laboratory at [[Horton Hospital]].<ref name=":1" />