The European and Dutch Societies for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Knowledge Centre Global Health, and University Medical Center Utrecht are hosting the 13th European Congress on Global Health. The aim at ECTMIH 2023 is to accelerate the understanding, appreciation, and connections between tropical medicine, global health, and the urgent field of planetary health. It will build on global health traditions to emphasize the importance of health equity and universal health coverage to ensure that all populations – and especially those in low(er) resource settings – have optimal chances of health and wellbeing. Crosscutting themes supporting this central planetary health focus will include prevention, diagnostic innovation, treatment and care; public and community health; Universal Health Coverage and health equity; health policy and the role of social sciences in global health research.
Sessions
Closing the gap for children affected by neglected tropical diseases
Date: Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Time: 10:30-12:00
Moderator: Janice Lee, Access Leader, Viral Cluster, DNDi
Moderator: Tiziana Masini, GAP-f, WHO
| GAP-f role in accelerating the availability and access to paediatric formulations for children with NTDs Tiziana Masini, GAP-f, WHO |
| Paediatric Drug Optimization for visceral leishmaniasis and human African trypanosomiasis Olaf Valverde, Clinical Project Leader (HAT), DNDi Fabiana Alves, NTD Leishmaniasis-Mycetoma Cluster Director, DNDi |
| Paediatric Drug Optimization for schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Disease, DNDi Peter Steinmann, Head of the Diseases and Programmes Unit, Swiss TPH Amadou Garba Djirmay, Scientist, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO |
Prevention and morbidity management of female genital schistosomiasis: how to optimise strategies to meet the neglected tropical diseases roadmap goals for schistosomiasis
Date: Thursday, 23 November 2023
Time: 10:30-12:00
Chair: Daniela Fusco, Researcher, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Speakers:
- Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Disease, DNDi
- Amaya Butsinduy, Professor of Global Paediatric and Adolescent Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté, Professor of Parasitology, University of Yaoundé
- Amadou Garba, Scientist, WHO Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Sarah Nogaro, Principal Scientist FIND
- Penelope Vounatsou, Head of Biostatistics, Swiss TPH
The road towards optimizing the medical treatment for mycetoma
Date: Thursday, 23 November 2023
Time: 13:30-15:00
Chair: Sahar Bakhiet, Research Coordinator, Mycetoma Research Centre
Speakers:
- Ahmed H Fahal, Professor of Surgery, The Mycetoma Research Centre
- Wendy W J van de Sande, Associate Professor, Erasmus MC
- Borna Nyaoke, Head of Mycetoma Disease, DNDi
- Ed Zijlstra, Consultant Expert PKDL/Mycetoma, DNDi
Symposium
Research and development on novel drugs for nematode infections: insight from academia and product development partnerships working together in the EU-funded HELP project
Date: Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Time: 17:15
Speakers:
- Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Disease, DNDi
- Marc Hübner, Professor for Translational Microbiology, IMMIP, University Hospital Bonn
- Said A. Jongo, Internal Medicine Physician and Clinical Epidemiologist, Ifakara Health Institute
- Jennifer Keiser, Associate Professor, Swiss TPH
Oral presentation
Oral abstract presentations: Neglected tropical diseases (1)
Date: Thursday, 23 November 2023
Time: 13:30-15:00
| Efficacy and safety of fexinidazole in patients with human African trypanosomiasis due to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. A multicentre, open label clinical trial: final results Olaf Valverde*, Enock Matovu, Westain Tizgo Nyirenda, Anthony Eriatu, Marshal ML Lemerani, Charles Wamboga, Deolinda Alves |
More information
DNDi resources of interest
- Watch our short films:
- DNDi Strategic Plan 2021-2028
- DNDi 2022 Annual Report
- New hope for leishmaniasis
- Disease factsheets:
