Herman Carneiro
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Herman A. Carneiro is an engineer, currently studying medicine, who is best known for having founded the community network Goanet that plays a prominent role in linking the international community of expatriates from the former Portuguese colony on the west coast of India. Carneiro, born in Kenya of Goan ancestry, set up this family of mailing lists when he was just 17 years old.
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[edit] Goanet
Carneiro launched Goanet in 1994.
Goanet became the first and most-influential mailing-list (and possibly the internet service too) for Goa, India. With over 10,500 subscribers, Goanet links Goans from all parts of the world. More importantly, it has been run for 12 years almost entirely on volunteer resources.
It also functions as a non-profit organization, most notably by inspiring and encouraging projects like the Goa Schools Computers Project, which in the early days of computing aimed to spread information technology in Goa by assisting in provision of hardware to schools, a goal which was met in some ways and also arguably influenced the subsequent attempts at making computers more widely available, through government and other initiatives.
[edit] Engineering, medicine
From October 2004, he has been a student at Imperial College, London, where he is doing his Medicine Bachelors and Bachelors of Surgery (M.B.B.S.). Earlier, he studied at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London School of Economics & Political Science (where he did a course on the control of infectious diseases), Harvard University and the Northeastern University.
[edit] Studying malaria in Goa
From November 2006, he spent some months at the National Institute of Malaria Research's Goa unit as a visiting research fellow, working on operational research on current practices of the diagnosis and treatment of P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria in areas with and without resistance to chloroquine in Goa, India. He has also been a consultant epidemiologist in Boston, collaborating on an investigation into a cluster of childhood cancer cases.
[edit] Epidemiology
At the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, he has been consultant epidemiologist, where he oversaw a prevalence study on multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in southeastern Massachusetts. He also coordinated the data collection and conducted basic statistical analyses.
He has worked at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (as an epidemiologist) and at Pfizer Inc's Discovery Technology Center in Cambridge (as contract scientist for screening technology). He did an internship for the World Health Organisation at Phnom Penh in Cambodia and worked for the United Nations Population Fund at Phnom Penh as a consultant. He has also worked in Massachusetts at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research in Cambridge, Kodak-Eastman Gelatine Corporation in Peabody, in an internship at Pharm-Eco Laboratories in North Andover, as an HPLC technician at Perseptive Biosystems in Bedford, and at Leukosite Incorporated in Cambridge as a research assistant.
[edit] Publications
Carneiro, H.A., Bugoro, H., Curtis, C., Coleman, P., Nathan, M., Hoyer, S., Chang, M., Socheat, D., Chanta, N., Setha, T. Bunnavy, C., Sambath, E., Kien, V. Impact of Insecticide-treated Covers on Larvae and Pupae of Aedes aegypti in Household Water Storage Jars (abstract only). Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2002 Jul-Aug;96(4):358-9.
