Biographies

Klaas Wierenga has a MSc in Biology, and a MD, both from Groningen State
University (the Netherlands). He worked for 7 years at the MRC Laboratories
(Jamaica) as a Research Scientist, and is presently a resident in
Paediatrics at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.

Ian Hambleton has a first degree in Mathematics (Brunel University, UK)
and a postgraduate degree in Biometry (Reading University, UK). He has
been working full time as a medical statistician for 7 years, has been
senior statistician at the MRC Laboratories (Jamaica), and is currently
a Medical Research Council (UK) Research Fellow at the Tropical Medicine
Research Institute, Kingston, Jamaica.