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.
Find us at BOOTH #215 where we are sharing a space with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders. We are honoured to host Mulikat Okanlawon, noma survivor and advocate, who will be at our booth to speak about this deeply neglected disease and her experience becoming a global voice for neglected communities.
Symposia
Townhall on global health at a crossroads: navigating the fallout of US disengagement in 2025
Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Time: 1:45-3:30 PM
Room: Convention Center – Room 718B (Level 7)
Chairs: Jamie Bay Nishi, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and David Hamer, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Speakers:
- Jodie Curtis, Venable LLP
- David Fidock, Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University
- Rebecca Martin, Sabin Vaccine Institute
- Ally Olutu, Ifakara Health Institute
- Delali Attiogbe Attipoe, North America Director, DNDi
- Kashef Ijaz, Carter Center
- Firdausi Qadri, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
- Elizabeth Hoffman, ONE
- Angela Weaver, Hellen Keller International
Sustaining the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis in South Asia
Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Time: 4:00-5:45 PM
Room: Convention Center – Room 714 (Level 7)
Chairs: Mary Wilson, University of Iowa College of Medicine, and Om Prakash Singh, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University
Speakers:
- Kristien Cloots, Institute of Tropical Medicine
- Nadira Karunaweera, University of Colombo
- Chrisine Petersen, Ohio State University
- Richard Poche, Genesis Laboratories Inc
- Abhay Satoskar, Department of Pathology, Ohio State University
- Fabiana Alves, NTD Leishmaniasis-Mycetoma Cluster Director, DNDi
Scientific sessions
Clinical tropical medicine: febrile illness diagnosis and epidemiology
Date: Monday, 10 November 2025
Time: 10:45 AM -12:30 PM
Room: Convention Center – Room 713 (Level 7)
| An AI-powered smartphone application for universal standardized lateral flow assays interpretation Presenter: Miguel Luengo Oroz, Spotlab Authors: Bermejo-Peláez D, Darias O, Pastor L, Dacal E, Valles-Lopez R, Cuadrado D, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Bohorquez L, Marchiol A, Rodriguez-Dominguez M, Canton R, Rubio J, Rodriguez-Tudela JL, Lugeno Oroz M. |
Kinetoplastida and other opportunistic and anaerobic protozoa – Epidemiology (including leishmania and trypanosomes)
Date: Monday, 10 November
Time: 2:15-4:00 PM
Room: Convention Center – Room 602 (Level 600)
| Data quality gaps threaten visceral leishmaniasis elimination efforts in Kenya: Findings from a multi-county assessment Presenter: Paul Kibati, Anref Health Africa Authors: Kibati P, Mwiti D, Ndungu L, Gakuo G, Lowana F, Ouugi J, Kutwah M, Muthoni Kinyeru E, Adera C, Bolo S, Ouma V, Ochol D, Muchangi M, Ofire Ofire M, Omondi WP. |
Kinetoplastida and other opportunistic and anaerobic protozoa: diagnosis and new detection tools
Date: Monday, 10 November 2025
Time: 4:30-6:15 PM
Room: Convention Center – Room 602 (Level 6)
| AI-powered digital microscopy for enhanced diagnosis and monitoring of visceral leishmaniasis Presenter: Miguel Luengo Oroz, Spotlab Authors: Dacal E, Yeshanew A, Lin L, Melkamu R, Bermejo-Peláez D, Yasin J, Vallés-Lopez R, Mossa A, Pastor L, Adane D, Cuadrado D, Alves F, Luengo Oroz M, Cruz I. |
| Early assessment of antibody decline and treatment discrimination in Chagas patients using the multicruzi serological multiplex assay Presenter: Ursula Saade, InfYnity Biomarkers; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Authors: Saade U, Ramirez JC, de Boer J, Bazán N, Mangone N, Ramadier T, Scandale I, Pottel H, Altcheh J, Chatelain E, Zrein M. |
Kinetoplastida and other opportunistic and anaerobic protozoa: genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, molecular therapeutic targets. Treatment drug delivery, drug repurposing and drug discovery
Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Time: 9:15-11:00 AM
Room: Convention Center – Room 801A (Level 8)
| Evaluating prescriber preferences for indeterminate Chagas treatments: an international cross-sectional study Presenter: Rodrigo Ville-Benavides, Hospital Médica Sur Authors: Ville-Benavides R, Forsyth C, Certo M, Gaspar SH, Hugonnet S, Pinazo MJ. | |
| Diagnosis and treatment of T.b. gambiense HAT patients with fexinidazole and the active search for trypanolysis-positive cases in the DRC from 2020 to 2021 Presenter: Junior Matangila, Head of Disease HAT, DNDi Authors: Ngolo D, Mbo F, Pyana P, Mwamba Miaka E, Mutombo Kalonji W, Nganzobo Ngima P, Tshowa Tshiyamba J, Fukinsia Mmitwo A, Rashidi Assani S, Bilonda A, Nyembo A, Kavunga Lukula P, Munganga J, Tarral A, Valverde O. |
Posters
Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Time: 12:00-1:45 PM
Room: Convention Center – Hall E (Level 8)
| A systematic review of the clinical study landscape for eumycetoma, 1990-2024 Presenter: Astrid Erber, Medical University of Vienna Authors: Erber AC, Dahal P, Bonifaz A, Brack M, Brodersen J, Harriss E, Maguire B, Jeleff M, Nyaoke B, Regensburger S, Srambickal A, Strub-Wourgaft N, Tirado-Sanchez A, Weichselberger T, Fahal AH, Zijlstra EE, Guerin PJ. |
| Barriers to clinical trial enrollment and retention for patients with Chagas disease in South America and the United States Presenter: Jen Allport-Anderson, Novartis Authors: Allport-Anderson J, Pontello M, Chaparro RM, Pinazo MJ, Garcia M, Arantes G, Barreira F, Taylor L, Aponte JC, Hochberg N. |
Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
Room: Convention Center – Hall E (level 8)
| Strengthening community engagement in the delivery of fexinidazole, a new oral drug against Human African Trypanosomaisis (HAT) in the Democratic Republic of Congo Presenter: Junior Matangila, Head of Disease HAT, DNDi Authors: Mbo F, Valverde O, Nyembo A, Ngolo D, Matangila J, Mutombo Kalonji W, Mukendi L, Bulanga C, Mwamba Miaka E. |
| Mixed methods study addressing barriers to contraception in regions endemic for neglected diseases Presenter: Léo Persoz, Research Consultant, DNDi Authors: Persoz L, Cota G, Pinazo MJ, Marchiol A, Galvão D, Blum B, Bolo S, Ouma V, Opanga Y, Alves F. |
| Health system burden expansion and the urgent need for dengue therapeutics: a nationwide analysis of dengue in Brazil (2014–2024) Presenter: André Siqueira, Head of Dengue Global Programme, DNDi Authors: Manoella A, Klauss G, Camila R, Ribeiro I, Siqueira A. |
Side event
Driving collaborative R&D for neglected patients amidst a funding crisis
Organized by the Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases and DNDi
Date: Monday, 10 November 2025
Time: 5:30-8:00 PM
Venue: Malaparte I 350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5, Canada
Kindly note that this event is by invitation only. Please secure your ticket to this event with the link below or send an email to Tina Lines at info@cnntd.org
