Global health educational and networking events
The pandemic gives us an opportunity to reassess how NTD activities are conducted and evaluate how to improve and optimize them. One example is the use of digital tools and data layers to improve microplanning for MDA and overcome inefficiencies of using paper treatment registers, maps, and outdated population denominator data. Many of these tools […]
The disruption to NTD activities caused by COVID-19 may adversely affect progress towards the 2030 NTD Roadmap targets. In order to maintain momentum, we must mitigate the impact of the pandemic on existing programmes and identify modified intervention strategies. There may also be opportunities to accelerate progress, especially in those communities where NTD infection levels […]
Focusing the Lens: Identifying Actions Together The Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition will convene a multitude of public health actors across all health campaigns to share knowledge, research, tools and best practices required to achieve Malaria, NTD, polio, vaccine-preventable diseases, and Vitamin A targets in the COVID-19 era. Representatives of coordinating bodies, funding organizations, national governments […]
The World Health Organization is hosting a series of webinars about the new road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The seventh webinar in the series is about skin NTDs. How do we deal with integrated control of skin NTDs in endemic countries to reach the 2030 targets?
The APHA Annual Meeting and Expo is an influential yearly gathering of public health professionals, bringing the public health community together to experience robust scientific programming, networking, social events, poster sessions and more.
The theme of this event is "Combating emerging and reemerging public health threats through regional field epidemiology training networks."
The World Health Organization is hosting a series of webinars about the new road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The eighth webinar in the series is about the role and importance of equity in leaving no one behind.
COR-NTD meets formally each year in conjunction with the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference, with participation from researchers, the World Health Organization, country program managers, implementers, and donors. Working groups comprised of NTD experts from a wide range of backgrounds conduct discussions at the annual COR-NTD meeting and throughout the year on […]
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. The meeting is designed for researchers, professors, government and public health officials, military personnel, travel clinic physicians, practicing physicians in tropical medicine, students and all healthcare providers […]
The aims of ESCAIDE are sharing of scientific knowledge and experience in all areas applied to infectious disease epidemiology, public health microbiology and related scientific fields; discussing and debating scientific advances and current public health challenges; strengthening and expanding the human network of all involved in this field in Europe and globally; providing opportunities for […]
The World Health Organization is hosting a series of webinars about the new road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The ninth webinar in the series is about the Global Vector Control Response (GVCR), including housing. How can a One Health and GVCR approach help reach the 2030 roadmap goals?
- Join us for a virtual event - POWER OF PARTNERSHIP: DEFEATING ONCHOCERCIASIS Monday, February 1, 2021 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) The virtual event will feature panel discussions by experts who contributed to the success of onchocerciasis control. Panelists will share the long history of the onchocerciasis control effort, including the […]
