Meet the team at this season’s conferences
Over the next few months, the WWARN and IDDO team will be busy travelling to international conferences. We hope to see you there!
ECTMIH 2017, 16-20 October 2017
Join us at the 10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) in Antwerp, Belgium from 16-20 October 2017. We will be presenting updates from some of our malaria study groups, oral sessions on data sharing, medicine quality, and the IDDO visceral leishmaniasis platform, and posters on our data governance work. Visit the Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health booth (number 12) in the exhibition area to meet staff members.
Below is a summary of the sessions we’re participating in:
- The consequences of censoring new infections when deriving antimalarial efficacy against uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria – Prabin Dahal
- Low dose primaquine efficacy and safety: A review and individual patient data meta-analysis – Georgina Humphreys
- Optimal duration of follow-up for assessing efficacy of drugs for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in pregnancy in Asia: A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis – Makoto Saito
- Evolving governance options to enhance equitable data sharing - Georgina Humphries
- Fevers and cold feet - Paul Newton
- Medicine quality screening devices – many devils in the details – Paul Newton
- Building a visceral leishmaniasis data-sharing platform to optimise treatment and inform future research – Philippe Guérin
- Clinical trial data platforms: lessons from malaria applied to a range of infectious diseases - Philippe Guérin
See the ECTMIH programme for further information.
ASTMH Annual Meeting 2017, 5-7 November 2017
WWARN together with the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) team will be attending this year’s American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting held in Baltimore, USA. We will have a meeting room - contact us to arrange a side meeting during the conference. Visit the Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health booth (number 312) in the exhibition area to meet staff members.
Below is a summary of the sessions we’re participating in:
- The WWARN Vivax Surveyor: open access online mapping database for clinical trials of Plasmodium vivax – Rob Commons
- Low dose primaquine efficacy and safety: a review and individual patient data meta-analysis – Georgina Humphreys
- Improving methods for surveillance of antimalarial drug resistance: an assessment of the current landscape – Christian Nsanzabana (on behalf of FIND)
- Improving prospective standardization of malaria clinical trials data used to monitor trends in antimalarial efficacy and resistance: The WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network resources platform – Clifford Banda
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the risk of transfusion transmitted malaria from blood donors in sub-Saharan Africa - Philippe Guérin
- The consequences of censoring new infections when deriving antimalarial efficacy against uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria - Prabin Dahal, on behalf of the WWARN Methods Study Group
- Co-Chair: Paul Newton
- How to find bad apples in pharmacies - Celine Caillet
See the ASTMH programme planner for further information.
JITMM, 6-8 December 2017
WWARN is sponsoring a symposium at the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM) taking place 6-8 December in Bangkok, Thailand.
Below is a summary of the session:
- Pooled data meta-analyses in antimalarial drug research - Joel Tarning
- Real-time data sharing - Mallika Imwong
- Current guidelines and stakeholder perspectives - Phaik Yeong Cheah & Nattapat Jatupornpimol