Dr David Williams

Head, Australian Venom Research Unit, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne; Chair, WHO Working Group on Snakebite Envenoming

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Health & Medicine

Deadly snakebites and saving lives

Risking his life is all in a day’s work for Dr David Williams, the newly appointed chair of the World Health Organization’s specialist Snakebite Group

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