The ASTMH Annual Meeting draws tropical medicine and global health professionals representing academia, foundations, government, not for profit organizations, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, military and private practice.
Keynote Address
Decolonizing science to benefit all: Reflections of an African researcher on the frontlines
Date: Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Time: 17:30 – 19:00
Room: Convention Center – Hall J (1st floor)
Speaker: Monique Wasunna, Africa Ambassador, DNDi
Symposia
The path towards a treatment for dengue: Endemic country leadership, progress, and perspectives
Date: Friday, 15 November 2024
Time: 10:15 – 12:00
Room: Convention Center – Room 395/396 (3rd floor)
Moderators: Isabela Ribeiro, Viral Diseases Cluster Director, DNDi and André Siqueira, Head of Dengue Global Programme, DNDi
Speakers:
- Vivian Gomes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Anna Vicco, Imperial College London, UK
- Richa Chandra, Novartis, India
- Steven Lim, Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital, Malaysia
Advancing research to improve treatment of neglected tropical diseases in children
Date: Friday, 15 November 2024
Time: 13:45 – 15:30
Room: Convention Center – Room 388/389 (3rd floor)
Moderator: María-Jesús Pinazo, Head of Chagas Disease, DNDi
Speakers:
- Anthony Solomon, WHO, Switzerland
- Jaime Altcheh, Paediatrician and Parasitologist, Ricardo Gutierrez Children’s Hospital
- Saschveen Singh, Tropical Infectious Disease Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières USA
- Borna Nyaoke, Head of Mycetoma Disease, DNDi
- Peter Steinmann, Head of the Diseases and Programmes Unit, Swiss TPH
- Olaf Valverde, Clinical Project Leader (HAT), DNDi
Advances in Chagas disease diagnostic assays and testing strategies
Date: Saturday, 16 November 2024
Time: 12:45 – 14:30
Room: Convention Center – Room 395/396 (3rd floor)
Moderator: Daniel Bourque, Boston Medical Centre
Speakers:
- María-Jesús Pinazo, Head of Chagas Disease, DNDi
- Jeffrey Whitman, University of California
- Alejandro Schijman, CONICET
Will HAT be the next NTD to achieve global elimination?
Date: Sunday, 17 November 2024
Time: 11:30 – 13:15
Room: Convention Center – Room 357 (3rd floor)
Moderators: Emily Crowley, University of Warwick and Rachel Bronzan, Gates Foundation
Speakers:
- Gerardo Priotto, WHO
- Erick Mwamba Miaka, National Sleeping Sickness Programme, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Iñaki Tirados, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Stéphane Hugonnet, NTD HAT-Filarial-Chagas Cluster Director, DNDi
- Kat S. Rock, University of Warwick
Scientific session
Date: Sunday, 17 November 2024
Time: 8:00 – 9:45
Room: Convention Center – Room 352 (3rd floor)
Efficacy and safety of thermotherapy in combination with miltefosine in comparison to miltefosine monotherapy for the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Americas: A phase III, open label, multicenter, randomized trial Byron Arana, Head of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Disease, DNDi Authors: Arana B, Pascale JM, Llanos-Cuentas A, Hueb M, Machado P, Soto J, Cota G, Rode J, Blum B, Boni M |
Posters
Date: Thursday, 14 November 2024
Time: 12:00 – 13:45
Room: Convention Center – Hall I-1 (1st floor)
Characterizing dengue seroprevalence and heterogeneities in transmission intensity in Ghana Afum-Adjei Awuah A*, Vicco A, Asamoah Adu E, Ebenezer Boham E, Alani H, Pomaah Wiredu A, Adu-Amoah L, Pedrique B, Guillerm M, Obirikorang C, Struck NS, Ribeiro I, Amuasi JH, Dorigatti I |
Date: Friday, 15 November 2024
Time: 12:00 – 13:45
Room: Convention Center – Hall I-1 (1st floor)
Dengue seroprevalence and force of infection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Nkuba-Ndaye A*, Vicco A, Mputu-Ngoyi B, Tshiminyi-Munkamba P, Baketana-Kinzonzi L, Matungulu-Biyala E, Nkawa F, Pedrique B, Guillerm M, Ribeiro I, Makiala-Mandanada S, Ahuka-Mundeke S, Dorigatti I |
Date: Saturday, 16 November 2024
Time: 11:00 – 12:45
Room: Convention Center – Hall I-1 (1st floor)
Fexinidazole in patients with human African trypanosomiasis due to trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, towards an arsenic-free, first-line therapy Valverde O*, Tizgo Nyirenda W, Eriatu A, Lemerani M, Wamboga C, Baudin E, Alves D, Matovu E |
Seroprevalence of dengue in Senegal Anna Vicco*, University of Padua, Italy; Imperial College London, UK |