Driving the Best Science to Meet Global Health Challenge s

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
15:30 – 17:00 
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
15:30
15:45
15:45
16:00
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
16:00
16:15
16:15
16:30
16:30
16:45
16:45
17:00
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
17:15
17:15
17:30
17:30
17:45
17:45
18:00
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
Hall 4.1
08:30
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 5 
Health, 
sustain-
ablility and 
transdiscipli-
narity 1
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 6 
Learning in 
and through 
transdis-
ciplinary 
processes
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 7 
Transdis-
ciplinary
institutions
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 8 
Significance 
and relevance 
of theory 
and theory 
building in 
transdis-
ciplinary 
research . A 
discoursive, 
praxeological 
approach
08:30
08:45
08:45
09:00
09:00 – 09:30 
Plenary 
Session 8 
Disease 
systems
09:00
09:15
09:15
09:30
09:30 – 10:00 
Plenary 
Session 9 
Health and 
social systems
09:30
09:45
09:45
10:00
10:00
10:15
10:15
10:30
10:30 – 11:45 
ITD Plenary 2 
Keynotes 
on learning 
from synergies 
across 
sustainability, 
health and 
trans-
disciplinarity
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.6.1. 
Challenges of 
surveillance-
response in 
the disease 
elimination 
phase
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.6.3. 
Surveillance of 
substandard 
and falsified 
medicines
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.4.2. 
Large cohorts 
and big data 
and disease/
risk mapping-
predicting
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.1.12. 
The struggle 
with MDR-TB
10:30 – 12:00 
Society 
Session 9 
FGHR, Norway: 
task shifting 
dilemmas 
in light of 
the human 
resource 
shortage in 
health
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.2.15. 
Helminth 
infections – 
diagnosis
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.3.1. 
Effective 
development 
cooperation 
in a complex 
environment
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.2.16. 
R&D for 
African and 
South-Ameri-
can Trypano-
somiasis
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.1.8. 
Insecticide 
resistance
10:30 – 12:00 
Society 
Session 10 
MMS: Swiss 
Health 
NGO‘s for 
implementa-
tion research
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.2.8. 
Leprosy 
elimination
10:30
10:45
10:45
11:00
11:00
11:15
11:15
11:30
11:30
11:45
11:45 – 13:15 
ITD Plenary 3 
td-award 
ceremony and 
lunch
11:45
12:00
12:00
12:15
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
The Global 
Schistosomiasis 
Alliance (GSA)
– on overview 
of its activities
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
Integrating 
health 
edutainment 
and mobile 
technology 
to WASH out 
worms and 
diseases of the
poor
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
Diagnostics: 
the missing 
link in the 
global health 
agenda
12:15 – 13:45 
Poster 
Session II
12:15
12:30
12:30
12:45
12:45
13:00
13:00
13:15
13:15 – 14:45 
Joint Plenary 
Session 
with the 
International 
Trans-
disciplinarity 
Conference
Societal 
foundations of 
global health
13:15
13:30
13:30 – 14:30 
Poster Speed 
Talks 5 
From research 
to implemen-
tation
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 – 22:30  Cultural Programme followed by Get-Together Dinner
15:30 – 22:30  Cultural Programme followed by Get-Together Dinner
15:30
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW 
Wednesday, 9 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
Hall 4.1
08:30
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 5 
Health, 
sustain-
ablility and 
transdiscipli-
narity 1
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 6 
Learning in 
and through 
transdis-
ciplinary 
processes
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 7 
Transdis-
ciplinary
institutions
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 8 
Significance 
and relevance 
of theory 
and theory 
building in 
transdis-
ciplinary 
research . A 
discoursive, 
praxeological 
approach
08:30
08:45
08:45
09:00
09:00 – 09:30 
Plenary 
Session 8 
Disease 
systems
09:00
09:15
09:15
09:30
09:30 – 10:00 
Plenary 
Session 9 
Health and 
social systems
09:30
09:45
09:45
10:00
10:00
10:15
10:15
10:30
10:30 – 11:45 
ITD Plenary 2 
Keynotes 
on learning 
from synergies 
across 
sustainability, 
health and 
trans-
disciplinarity
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.6.1. 
Challenges of 
surveillance-
response in 
the disease 
elimination 
phase
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.6.3. 
Surveillance of 
substandard 
and falsified 
medicines
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.4.2. 
Large cohorts 
and big data 
and disease/
risk mapping-
predicting
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.1.12. 
The struggle 
with MDR-TB
10:30 – 12:00 
Society 
Session 9 
FGHR, Norway: 
task shifting 
dilemmas 
in light of 
the human 
resource 
shortage in 
health
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.2.15. 
Helminth 
infections – 
diagnosis
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.3.1. 
Effective 
development 
cooperation 
in a complex 
environment
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.2.16. 
R&D for 
African and 
South-Ameri-
can Trypano-
somiasis
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.1.8. 
Insecticide 
resistance
10:30 – 12:00 
Society 
Session 10 
MMS: Swiss 
Health 
NGO‘s for 
implementa-
tion research
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 
3.2.8. 
Leprosy 
elimination
10:30
10:45
10:45
11:00
11:00
11:15
11:15
11:30
11:30
11:45
11:45 – 13:15 
ITD Plenary 3 
td-award 
ceremony and 
lunch
11:45
12:00
12:00
12:15
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
The Global 
Schistosomiasis 
Alliance (GSA)
– on overview 
of its activities
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
Integrating 
health 
edutainment 
and mobile 
technology 
to WASH out 
worms and 
diseases of the
poor
12:15 – 13:15 
Satellite 
Symposium 
Diagnostics: 
the missing 
link in the 
global health 
agenda
12:15 – 13:45 
Poster 
Session II
12:15
12:30
12:30
12:45
12:45
13:00
13:00
13:15
13:15 – 14:45 
Joint Plenary 
Session 
with the 
International 
Trans-
disciplinarity 
Conference
Societal 
foundations of 
global health
13:15
13:30
13:30 – 14:30 
Poster Speed 
Talks 5 
From research 
to implemen-
tation
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 – 22:30  Cultural Programme followed by Get-Together Dinner
15:30 – 22:30  Cultural Programme followed by Get-Together Dinner
15:30
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Wednesday, 9 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
08:30
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 9 
Designing 
coherent trans-
disciplinary 
research and 
a close look at 
transdi-
ciplinary 
practice
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 10 
Health, 
sustain ability 
and transdisci-
plinarity 2
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 11 
Interdisci-
plinarity in 
universities 
of applied 
sciences‘ 
master studies 
& RDI projects: 
case Finland
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 12 
Stakeholder 
engagement in 
sustainability 
assessment – 
transdisciplinary 
challenges in the-
ory and practice – 
collectively testing 
the Sustainability 
Profile Matrix 
along practical 
examples
08:30
08:45
08:45
09:00
09:00 – 09:30 
Plenary 
Session 11 
Disease systems
09:00
09:15
09:15
09:30
09:30 – 10:00 
Plenary 
Session 12 
Health and social
systems
09:30
09:45
09:45
10:00
10:00
10:15
10:15
10:30
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel  
Session 3.2.17. 
Schistoso-
miasis
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.1.2. 
From global 
health 
diplomacy to 
global health 
actions: the 
Northen and 
Southern 
perspectives
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.4.3. 
Management 
of protozoal 
and helminthic 
pathogens in 
travellers
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 5.6.5. 
Minimally 
Invasive 
Autopsy (MIA) 
tool for cause 
of death 
investigation 
in developing 
countries
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.3.5 . 
Innovative 
communi-
ty-based 
Buruli ulcer 
management 
programs: out-
comes, impact, 
and lessons for 
other disease 
programs
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.1.3. 
Health 
insurance 
for rural 
population – 
innovations 
and challenges
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.6.1. 
Gut microbiota 
and its 
interaction 
with nutrition 
and diseases
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.1.13. 
Malaria control
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 4.3.6. 
Health 
economics
10:30 – 12:00 
Society 
Session 11 
Be-cause 
Health: 
integrated 
mental health 
care: finally 
a different 
perspective 
towards a 
more human 
health care?
10:30 – 12:00 
Parallel 
Session 3.2.12. 
Mycetoma: 
addressing the 
unbearable 
treatment gap
10:30
10:45
10:45 – 12:15 
ITD  
Plenary 4 
ESF-Panel 
Online tools to 
support trans-
disciplinary 
research
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
12:30
12:30
12:45
12:45
13:00
13:00 – 14:30 
Plenary 
Session 13 
Closing 
Session
13:00
13:15
13:15
13:30
13:30 – 15:00 
ITD  
Session 13 
Evaluating 
transdici-
plinary collab-
orations
13:30 – 15:00 
ITD  
Session 14 
Inter- and 
transdis-
ciplinary 
approaches 
to include the 
vulnerable, 
build resilience 
and catch 
criminals
13:30 – 15:00 
ITD  
Session 15 
Designing 
transdis-
ciplinary 
research for 
preferred 
outcomes the 
outcome spac-
es framework 
as a starting 
point
13:30 – 15:00 
ITD  
Session 16 
Complexity 
or control? 
Exploring the 
landscape of 
sustainability 
science
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 – 17:15 
ITD  
Plenary 5 
Keynotes 
on new 
developments 
in theory, 
methods, and 
practice of 
transdis-
ciplinary 
research
15:30
15:45
15:45
16:00
16:00
16:15
16:15
16:30
16:30
16:45
16:45
17:00
17:00
17:15
17:15
17:30
17:30
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW 
Thursday, 10 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
08:30
08:30 – 10:00 
ITD  
Session 9 
Designing 
coherent trans-
disciplinary 
research and 
a close look at 
transdi-
ciplinary 
practice
08:30 – 10:00