David Molyneux

David Hurst Molyneux CMG[1] (born 1943)[2] is a British parasitologist who served as the director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (1991–2000), where, as of 2018, he is an emeritus professor.

He attended Emmanuel College of the University of Cambridge, gaining a degree in zoology (1965) and a PhD in parasitology (1969).

In 1975, he joined the World Health Organization (WHO), working on African trypanosomiasis in Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta).

In 1997, he established what later became the WHO Global Alliance for the Elimination of Filariasis, then funded by the Department for International Development and GlaxoSmithKline, who provided the antiparasitic albendazole.

[4][6] He served as the Alliance's executive secretary (2006–10) and directed the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre at LSTM (2000–08).