Wilder-Smith, Annelies

Research Interests:

Associate Professor Annelies Wilder-Smith is the Director of the Travellers’ Screening and Vaccination Clinic at the National University Hospital Singapore. Her expertise is travel medicine and international health, with a focus on vaccine preventable diseases and emerging infectious diseases. She is coordinator of global health courses and the module on communicable diseases for the MPH program at the National University Singapore. She is also Joint Associate Professor with Duke-NUS in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Program.

Her research interests are dengue, meningococcal disease, tuberculosis, SARS, and other emerging diseases. She holds a PhD in International Health from the University of Amsterdam. She has worked in various countries including China, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Switzerland, Singapore and Germany.

Annelies Wilder-Smith has published more than 80 scientific papers in international peer reviewed journals. She is editor of “Travel medicine: tales behind the science” (Elsevier, 2007) and editor of the “WHO International Travel and Health 2007 and 2008”. She co-edited and co-authored various textbooks including the “Manual of Travel Medicine & Health” (Steffen/DuPont/Wilder-Smith, 2007, B.C. Decker Inc).

Dr Wilder-Smith is Editorial Consultant to The Lancet and Technical Advisor to WHO related to international travel and health. She is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Travel Medicine, Co-Chair for the Asia Pacific Travel Medicine Conference in Melbourne 2008, and Special Advisor to GeoSentinel. She also is the President-elect of the Asia Pacific Society of Travel Medicine.

Furthermore, Prof Wilder-Smith serves as consultant to various NGOs in Asia and is the research consultant to The Leprosy Mission. Since 2001, she is the Medical Director for a Community Health Project in South India.