Alan Jon Magill (November 26, 1953 – September 19, 2015) was the Director of Malaria Programs at the

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and President of the

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Life and career

Magill was born November 26, 1953 in Craig, Colorado. He graduated from Beaumont High School, Texas, and received his B.S. from

Lamar University Lamar University (Lamar or LU) is a public university in Beaumont, Texas. Lamar has been a member of the Texas State University System since 1995. It was the flagship institution of the former Lamar University System. As of the fall of 2021, t ...

in 1976, his M.S. from the

University of Rhode Island The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state of Rhode Isla ...

in 1978, and his M.D. from

Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a medical school and research center in Houston, Texas, within the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center. BCM is composed of four academic components: the School of Medicine, the Graduate S ...

in 1984. He held the Head of Parasitology position at the

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's Medical Research Center in Peru from 1996–1999. Magill worked as Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 2009-2012 before joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2012, where he worked until his death in 2015. During his tenure at the Foundation, he worked to address health issues including malaria and

Ebola Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after becom ...

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1953 births 2015 deaths Baylor College of Medicine alumni Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation people Lamar University alumni University of Rhode Island alumni People from Moffat County, Colorado Presidents of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene {{US-med-bio-stub