Dr. Ted Lankester
CAREER PROFILE
I worked for seven years as a General Practitioner in London after qualification. However the focus of my interest has always been in global health issues, especially community health care in resource- poor countries and in travel medicine. These interests took me and my family to work in North India for eight years where I was involved in setting up a number of community health programmes and exploring models of appropriate health care. During that time I was also involved in the health care of travellers and expatriates which in turn led me to take up the challenge of co-founding InterHealth in 1989. I divide my time between working as a clinician, medical management of InterHealth, lecturing, writing and travelling. My current focus is the development of Community Health Global Network into an effective tool to help improve the quality of faith based community health programmes in resource poor areas. This includes active liason with individuals and departments in the World Health Organization. CURRENT
APPOINTMENTS
• Director of Health Services at InterHealth (IH acts as Travel Health/Medical Advisor to 300 secular and faith-based international organizations) www.interhealth.org.uk
• Director Community Health Global Network www.chgn.org
• External lecturer on Primary Health Care at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and University College London
• Member Tropical Doctor Editorial Board (Assistant Editor 1990-2001)
• Member of UK National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) Advisory Board till end 2007 QUALIFICATIONS
• 2006 Founding Fellow of Faculty of Travel Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow FFTM RCPSGlas
• 1977 Member of Royal College of General Practitioners MRCGP • 1969 -1971 St Thomas’s Hospital London MB BChir
• 1965 -1968 Trinity Hall, Cambridge MA
• 1972 One year Certificate in Theology St Johns College (affil Uni. Nottingham) Cert Theol.
PUBLICATIONS
• Setting up Community Health Programmes: a practical manual for use in developing countries. 3rd Edition 2007 Macmillan.
• The Travellers’ Good Health Guide Sheldon Press 3rd Edition 2006
• Berlitz Travel Health Pocket Guide Berlitz Publishing 2007
• Urban Health & Development - a practical manual for use in developing countries. B Booth, K Martin T Lankester 2001 Macmillan
• Various papers and textbook chapters on global health and travel medicine InterHealth,
Contact information for Ted:
111 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7HR, UK
e-mail Tedlankester@hotmail.com
Tel + 44 (0)1892 661421 Fax + 44 (0)207 902 9091
Conference Lecture 1
The role of public health in missions
Conference Lecture 2
Health for the masses
Conference Lecture 3
The impact of community health
Revised 7/4/2008