David Francis Clyde

David Francis Clyde (13 January 1925 – 12 November 2002) was a British malariologist, tropical physician, and medical school professor, known for his research on malaria vaccines and chemotherapy.

[1][2][3][4][5] Born in Meerut, India, as the son of a father who was a physician with the Indian Medical Services, David F. Clyde studied from the age of 7 at boarding school in England.

He then joined in 1949 the British Colonial Medical Service and served in Tanganyika in the mid-1950s as a clinician, malariologist, senior epidemiologist, and then, in the early 1960s, deputy surgeon general in the newly independent Tanzania.

In 1966 Clyde left Tanzania to do research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine on malaria prevention and therapies.

[4] From 1979 to 1985, Clyde served as head of the World Health Organization's Southeast Asia Division based in Delhi, India.