Driving the Best Science to Meet Global Health Challenge s

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Poster 
Session I
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Satellite 
Symposium 
Co-infections: 
its impact on 
neglected tropical 
diseases
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Satellite Symposium 
On the road to malaria 
elimination: where  
we have come from 
and what challenges 
lie ahead?
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Society Session 2 
RSTMH: the key 
contributions of 
disease mapping 
to global health
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Session 3.2.11. 
Evaluating 
therapeutic 
interventions 
against Ebola: 
challenges and 
lessons learned
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Session 3.1.6. 
Answering key 
questions on 
malaria drug 
delivery – the 
importance of 
diagnostics
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Session 3.1.2. 
Implementation 
research for malaria 
elimination . 
Emerging results from 
Malaria Eradication 
Scientific Alliance 
(MESA) – supported 
projects
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Session 3.3.4. 
Global faces of 
challenges with 
diabetes and 
hypertension
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Session 4.2.2. 
Determinants of 
health and help 
seeking behavior
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Session 4.3.4. 
The good, the 
bad and the 
ugly of global 
targets . Will 
the SDGs be 
different?
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Session 5.3.2. 
The reality of 
open source 
drug discovery: 
a move towards 
multilateral 
collaborations
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TMIH 
Workshop 1 
Writing for 
real people: 
how to make 
your papers 
attractive, clear 
and popular
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Session 4.6.2. 
Medical and 
public health 
education in 
Africa
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Parallel Session 
3.2.4. 
Visceral 
leishmaniasis 
– from patient 
to public health 
needs: the role of 
R&D in disease 
elimination and 
control
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Parallel Session 
5.2.1. 
How to bridge 
between 
health systems 
researchers and 
practitioners 
in the field of 
international 
health 
cooperation
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Film on the  
Ebola-Tx trial 
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Session 5.6.6. 
Implementation 
research – key to 
effectiveness
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Session 3.2.10. 
Ebola – 
vaccination
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Session 3.5.3. 
Women and 
immunization, 
life-saving vaccines 
to protect women’s 
and infant’s 
health
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Parallel  
Session 3.1.3. 
Malaria 
elimination: 
getting there and 
staying there
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Parallel  
Session 4.2.1. 
Improving access 
to essential quality 
health services
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Session 4.2.3. 
Health workers 
patients 
interactions – key 
to compliance and 
adherence
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Session 3.2.5. 
Diagnosis and 
management 
of cutaneous 
leishmaniasis in 
travellers
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Session 3.2.7. 
Geospatial 
health
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TMIH  
Workshop 2 
Storytelling for  
scientists: the  
drama of bio-
medical research 
papers
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Session 3.5.1. 
Research 
priorities in 
obstetrics and 
reproductive 
health
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Session 4.5.4. 
Arthropode-
borne diseases
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Session 3.3.3. 
NCDs with 
particular 
relevance to 
mental health
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Plenary Session 4 
From research to
implementation
17:00 – 18:00 
Poster Speed 
Talks 2 
NCDs and 
reproductive 
health
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Plenary Session 5 
Disease Systems
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Film Presentation 
Can film save 
lifes?
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Meet the editors 
of PLoS neglected 
tropical diseases 
and Q & A
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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW 
Monday, 7 September 2015
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San 
Francisco
Sydney
Singapore
Montreal
Delhi
Boston  
1
Boston  
2
Shanghai 
1
Shanghai 
2
Kairo 
1
Kairo 
2
Samarkand
Hotel 
Pullman 
Galerie 1
Hotel 
Pullman 
Galerie 2
Hotel 
Pullman 
Estrade 
1–2
Hotel 
Pullman 
Arcade
09:00
Plenary 
Session 6 
From research to 
implementation
09:00 – 09:30 
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Plenary 
Session 7 
Health and 
social systems
09:30 – 10:00 
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10:30 – 12:00 
Society 
Session 3 
SPE, SIMET, 
SEMTSI: Rapid 
diagnosis 
tests (RDTs) 
in tropical 
infectiology 2
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.3.3. 
Where there 
is no market – 
exploring novel 
approaches 
to R&D for 
diseases of the 
poor
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.4.1. 
Emergent 
diseases: 
Immigrants 
and potential 
diseases with 
impact in and 
for Europe
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.1.5. 
Malaria 
transmission: 
from the field 
to the bench
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.9. 
Helminth 
infections – 
burden and 
impact
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.2.4. 
Promoting 
multi-sectorial 
approaches in 
health: what 
kind of science 
do we need?
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.6.2. 
Nutrition
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.4.1. 
Threats to 
health systems 
– emergency 
situations
10:30 – 11:30 
TMIH 
Workshop 3 
What authors 
need to know: 
ethics of 
writing, and 
how journals 
tick
10:30 – 12:00 
Late Breaker 
Abstract 
Session 2
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.2.5. 
Determinants 
of health, 
knowledge 
attitude and 
practice
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.5.2. 
Innovations in 
public health 
entomology
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12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
The Japanese 
contribution 
to tackle 
global health 
challenges
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
Neglected trop-
ical diseases: 
achievements 
of public-private 
partnerships
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
MDR-tubercu-
losis: from R&D 
to a patient‘s 
journey in the 
infectious disease 
landscape
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ITD Plenary 1 
Welcome & 
Opening
Keynotes: 
Critically 
reviewing a 
decade of 
transdisci pli-
nary research
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13:30 – 15:00 
TMIH Plenary 
Fundamentals 
of genetic 
epidemiology
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.4.2. 
Travel 
medicine
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.4.1. 
Environmental 
health 
problems 
from different 
global 
perspectives
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.14. 
Progress and 
challenges for 
the elimination 
of gambiense 
sleeping 
sickness
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.5.3. 
Dengue and 
Chikungunya 
viral infections: 
a box of 
surprises
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel  
Session 5.4.3.
 
Population 
health – the 
use of 
health and 
demographic 
surveillance 
systems
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.6.3. 
Nutrition and 
immunology
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.5.2. 
Child health
13:30 – 15:00 
Poster Speed 
Talks 3 
Health and 
social systems
13:30 – 15:00 
Society 
Session 4 
DTG: North-
South research 
cooperation 
on non-
communicable 
disease
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.3.5. 
HIV and 
comorbidities
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13:45
14:00
14:00
14:15
14:15
14:30
14:30
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14:45
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15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.3.2. 
Maternal and 
infant health
15:30 – 17:00 
Society 
Session 5 
10th 
Anniversary 
of SSPH+: 
perspectives 
on global 
health 
challenges
15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.5.1. 
Health of 
pastoralists 
and the 
science of 
zoonoses 
elimination
15:30 – 17:00 
Society 
Session 6 
SSTMP: 
Helminthiases: 
from drug 
discovery to 
policy
15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.1.1. 
HIV/AIDS from 
research to 
implementation
15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.1. 
The 
development 
of new 
treatments 
for helminth 
infections
15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.6.2. 
Novel 
approaches 
for clinical 
trial design for 
poverty-related 
diseases
15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.13. 
Time to 
improve 
snakebite 
management 
in the tropics!
15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.5.4. 
Sexual and 
reproductive 
health
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Society 
Session 7 
NVTG: 
Where aid 
meets trade: 
exploring 
business ap-
proaches and 
public private 
partnerships 
for health
15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.5.1. 
Innovative 
technologies 
and 
approaches 
to strengthen 
health
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16:00 – 17:00 
Poster Speed 
Talks 4 
Neglected 
tropical 
diseases speed 
talks
16:00 – 17:30 
ITD  
Session 1 
Ways of 
stakeholder 
engagement 
and knowledge 
integraion
16:00 – 17:30 
ITD  
Session 2 
Reflecting  
on trans-
disciplinary 
sustainability 
research
16:00 – 17:30 
ITD  
Session 3 
CIENS – Oslo 
Centre for In-
terdisciplinary 
Environmental 
and Social 
Research: 
transdis-
ciplinarity 
for urban 
sustainability
16:00 – 17:30 
ITD  
Session 4 
Higher 
education 
for, as, and 
through trans-
disciplinary 
research
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17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 3.1.9. 
Towards 
malaria 
vaccines
17:00 – 18:30 
Society 
Session 8 
European 
Academic 
Global Health 
Alliance 
(EAGHA): the 
tragedy in the 
Mediterranean 
Sea is a global 
health issue
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.2. 
Ebola and 
other emerging 
infectious 
diseases
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 3.1.7. 
Drug 
resistance in 
malaria
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 3.1.11. 
Tuberculosis: 
current 
challenges
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 5.5.2. 
Digital health 
on the ground
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 3.3.2. 
Dual burden of 
communicable 
and non-
communicable 
disease in 
low and 
high income 
countries
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 5.6.4. 
Measuring 
effectiveness: 
approaches 
to evaluate 
large-scale 
programs
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel  
Session 5.4.4. 
Moving beyond 
estimation of 
the burden 
of household 
air pollution- 
ensuring adop-
tion and health 
benefits of 
demonstrably 
clean cooking
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 4.3.3. 
Health systems 
and social 
exclusion
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.6. 
Dengue 
control
17:00 – 18:30 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.3. 
Leishmaniasis
17:00
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17:30
17:45
17:45
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18:00
18:15
18:30
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW 
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
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San 
Francisco
Sydney
Singapore
Montreal
Delhi
Boston  
1
Boston  
2
Shanghai 
1
Shanghai 
2
Kairo 
1
Kairo 
2
Samarkand
Hotel 
Pullman 
Galerie 1
Hotel 
Pullman 
Galerie 2
Hotel 
Pullman 
Estrade 
1–2
Hotel 
Pullman 
Arcade
09:00
Plenary 
Session 6 
From research to 
implementation
09:00 – 09:30 
09:00
09:15
09:15
09:30
Plenary 
Session 7 
Health and 
social systems
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09:30
09:45
09:45
10:00
10:00
10:15
10:15
10:30
10:30 – 12:00 
Society 
Session 3 
SPE, SIMET, 
SEMTSI: Rapid 
diagnosis 
tests (RDTs) 
in tropical 
infectiology 2
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.3.3. 
Where there 
is no market – 
exploring novel 
approaches 
to R&D for 
diseases of the 
poor
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.4.1. 
Emergent 
diseases: 
Immigrants 
and potential 
diseases with 
impact in and 
for Europe
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.1.5. 
Malaria 
transmission: 
from the field 
to the bench
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.9. 
Helminth 
infections – 
burden and 
impact
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.2.4. 
Promoting 
multi-sectorial 
approaches in 
health: what 
kind of science 
do we need?
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.6.2. 
Nutrition
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.4.1. 
Threats to 
health systems 
– emergency 
situations
10:30 – 11:30 
TMIH 
Workshop 3 
What authors 
need to know: 
ethics of 
writing, and 
how journals 
tick
10:30 – 12:00 
Late Breaker 
Abstract 
Session 2
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.2.5. 
Determinants 
of health, 
knowledge 
attitude and 
practice
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.5.2. 
Innovations in 
public health 
entomology
10:30
10:45
10:45
11:00
11:00
11:15
11:15
11:30
11:30
11:45
11:45
12:00
12:00
12:15
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
The Japanese 
contribution 
to tackle 
global health 
challenges
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
Neglected trop-
ical diseases: 
achievements 
of public-private 
partnerships
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
MDR-tubercu-
losis: from R&D 
to a patient‘s 
journey in the 
infectious disease 
landscape
12:15
12:30
12:30
12:45
12:45
13:00
13:00
13:15
13:15 – 15:30 
ITD Plenary 1 
Welcome & 
Opening
Keynotes: 
Critically 
reviewing a 
decade of 
transdisci pli-
nary research
13:15
13:30
13:30 – 15:00 
TMIH Plenary 
Fundamentals 
of genetic 
epidemiology
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.4.2. 
Travel 
medicine
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.4.1. 
Environmental 
health 
problems 
from different 
global 
perspectives
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.14. 
Progress and 
challenges for 
the elimination 
of gambiense 
sleeping 
sickness
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.5.3. 
Dengue and 
Chikungunya 
viral infections: 
a box of 
surprises
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel  
Session 5.4.3.
 
Population 
health – the 
use of 
health and 
demographic 
surveillance 
systems
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.6.3. 
Nutrition and 
immunology
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.5.2. 
Child health
13:30 – 15:00 
Poster Speed 
Talks 3 
Health and 
social systems
13:30 – 15:00 
Society 
Session 4 
DTG: North-
South research 
cooperation 
on non-
communicable 
disease
13:30 – 15:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.3.5. 
HIV and 
comorbidities
13:30
13:45
13:45
14:00
14:00
14:15
14:15
14:30
14:30
14:45
14:45
15:00
15:00
15:15
15:15
15:30
15:30 – 17:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.3.2. 
Maternal and 
infant health
15:30 – 17:00