Infectious Diseases Along the Silk Roads: The Spread of Parasitoses and Culture Past and Today

Prof. Dr. Heinz Mehlhorn has retired from Düsseldorf University and was President of the German and World Societies of Parasitology and Protozoology. He has published 80 parasitology books and is currently chairman of a German company, which has developed products against parasites.

Prof. Zhongdao Wu, PhD is an internationally well known Professor of human parasitology at the Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China. He is engaged in research projects on prevention and control of parasitic diseases such as snail-borne parasitic diseases as well as schistosomiasis, liver fluke, as well as mosquito-borne diseases. He has also participated in multiple international cooperation projects and thus visited countries such as Niger, Zanzibar, Nepal, Thailand, Pakistan, Laos, etc. to exchange ideas on parasitic disease prevention and control. As teacher he is engaged in the Medical school, where he also has trained many graduate students and doctors from the Belt and Road countries thus spreading important knowledge.

Dr. Xiaoying Wu has received her Ph.D. at the School of Public Health at the Sun Yat-sen University. She studied at the University of Birmingham (UK) and completed her postdoctoral work at the School of Public Health at Fudan University. Currently, she is employed at the Department of Gastroenterology at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Her primary research focus is on clinical epidemiology of chronic and infectious inflammatory diseases. Dr. Wu led a graduate research team conducting a three-year field epidemiological investigation in the schistosomiasis japonica endemic areas in China, and established a cohort of patients with advanced schistosomiasis japonica. She also participated in teaching the clinical eight-year program course "Tropical Diseases and Global Health". In addition Dr. Wu is a member of the Health Data and Digital Medicine Branch of the ChinaInternational Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care.

教授海因茲·梅爾霍恩（Prof. Dr. Heinz Mehlhorn）已從杜塞爾多夫大學退休，曾擔任德國及世界寄生蟲學和原生動物學會的會長。他出版了80本寄生蟲學書籍，目前是德國一家專門開發抗寄生蟲產品公司的董事長。

吳中道教授（Prof. Zhongdao Wu, PhD）是中山醫學院（Zhongshan School of Medicine）、中山大學（Sun Yat-sen University）的人類寄生蟲學國際知名教授。他參與了多個寄生蟲病的預防和控制研究項目，包括蝸牛傳播的寄生蟲病、血吸蟲病、肝吸蟲病以及蚊子傳播的疾病。他還參與了多個國際合作項目，並因此訪問了尼日爾、桑給巴爾、尼泊爾、泰國、巴基斯坦、老撾等國，交流寄生蟲病的預防和控制理念。作為教師，他在醫學院任教，並培訓了來自一帶一路國家的許多研究生和醫生，傳播重要知識。

吳曉英博士（Dr. Xiaoying Wu）在中山大學公共衛生學院獲得博士學位。她曾在伯明翰大學（University of Birmingham, UK）學習，並在復旦大學公共衛生學院完成博士後研究。目前，她在中山大學第三附屬醫院的胃腸科工作。她的主要研究重點是慢性和傳染性炎症疾病的臨床流行病學。吳博士領導了一個研究生團隊，在中國的日本血吸蟲病流行區進行為期三年的現場流行病學調查，並建立了一個晚期日本血吸蟲病患者的隊列。她還參與教授臨床八年制課程「熱帶疾病與全球健康」。此外，吳博士是中國醫療與健康促進國際交流協會健康數據與數字醫學分會的成員。