Sussex cross-country team manager and athlete, Professor Gail Davey of Brighton and Hove AC, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's belated birthday honours list, for her ongoing work to tackle neglected tropical diseases.
Gail is a professor of global health epidemiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and was recently appointed President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine Hygiene.
An amazingly humble individual Gail founded the International Podoconiosis Initiative. Her goal is to bring an end to this disease, which is a form of elephantiasis (leg swelling) found in subsistence farming communities in the tropics.
Gail is a multiple Sussex cross-country medallist and mother of Sussex under-20 3000m record-holder Almi Nerurkar.