Building on Success - Malaria Control and Elimination
Swiss TPH Winter Symposium - 8-9 December 2016 - Congress Center Basel, Switzerland
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The Swiss TPH Winter Symposium 2016 invites medical and health sector specialists to review and discuss history, successes and future of Malaria control and elimination. Topics will include:
- Malaria Control History, Successes and the Way Forward
- Vector Control
- Antimalarial Drug Discovery
- Extending the Use of Antimalarials
- Malaria Vaccines
- Surveillance and Health Systems
- Country Issues, Technical Support and Capacity Building
Programme, Thursday, 8 December
Welcome and Registration
08:15 Registration
08:45 Welcome and Introduction, Christian Lengeler, Swiss TPH
Session 1 – Setting the Scene and Highlighting Successes
Chair: Marcel Tanner, Swiss TPH
09:00 History of Malaria Control and Lessons Learned, Justin Cohen, Clinton Health Access Initiative, USA
09:30 A Quantitative History of Malaria in Maps, Ewan Cameron, University of Oxford, UK
10:00 Where We Stand and Where We Want To Go, Pedro Alonso, Global Malaria Programme World Health Organization, Switzerland
10:30 Coffee Break
Session 2 – Malaria Vaccines
Chair: Blaise Genton, Swiss TPH
11:00 Challenging the Current Vaccine Pipeline, Odile Leroy, European Vaccine Initiative, Germany
11:30 Vaccine R&D for Infectious Diseases with Epidemic Potential, Marie-Paule Kieny, World Health Organization, Switzerland
12:00 Defining Success for Next Generation Malaria Vaccines, Melissa Penny, Swiss TPH
12:30 Lunch
Session 3 – Antimalarial Drug Discovery
Chair: Hans-Peter Beck, Swiss TPH
14:00 Mass Production of Gametocytes: Opportunities for Drug and Vaccine Discovery, Till Voss, Swiss TPH
14:30 Global Drug Discovery for Malaria, Paul Willis, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Switzerland
15:00 Drug Discovery at Swiss TPH, Matthias Rottmann, Swiss TPH
15:30 Coffee Break
Session 4 – Extending the Use of Antimalarials
Chair: Andrea Bosman, World Health Organization
16:00 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention, Badara Cisse, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
16:30 Mass Drug Administration – When Is It Useful? Kwaku Poku Asante, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana
17:00 Changing Malaria Risk for Travellers, Christoph Hatz, Swiss TPH
17:30 Launch of Swiss Malaria Group Photo Contest 2017 and Cocktails
Programme, Friday, December 9
Session 5 – Vector Control
Chair: Pie Müller, Swiss TPH
09:00 Vector Control Strategies and Successes, Tessa Knox, World Health Organization, Switzerland
09:30 Insecticide Resistance: Why It Matters and What We Can Do, Mark Hoppé, Syngenta, Switzerland
10:00 New Tools and Innovations in Vector Control, Sarah Moore, Swiss TPH
10:30 Coffee Break
Session 6 – Surveillance and Health Systems
Chair: Fabrizio Tediosi, Swiss TPH
11:00 Surveillance as an Intervention, Marcel Tanner, Swiss TPH
11:30 Diagnostics for Malaria Surveillance, Ingrid Felger, Swiss TPH
12:00 Better Health Systems for Malaria Surveillance and Control, Ikupa Akim and Fabrizio Molteni, Swiss TPH NETCELL Project, Tanzania
12:30 Lunch
Session 7 – Country Issues, Technical Support and Capacity Building
Chair: Kaspar Wyss, Swiss TPH
13:30 Focus on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joris Losimba Likwela, National Malaria Control Programme, DR Congo
14:00 Focus on Tanzania, Renata Mandike, National Malaria Control Programme, Tanzania
14:30 Swiss TPH’s Support to the Global Malaria Control Effort, Helen Prytherch, Swiss TPH
15:00 Maintaining Momentum, Achieving Successes, Bernard Nahlen, President’s Malaria Initiative USAID, USA
15:30 Closing Words, Jürg Utzinger, Director Swiss TPH
15:40 Coffee Break
Geigy Foundation Award 2016
16:00 Rudolf Geigy Foundation Award Ceremony
- Geigy Award Intro
- Giovanna Raso
- Jean Coulibaly
- Geigy Award 2016
17:30 Cocktails
Impressions: Building on Success - Malaria Control and Elimination
Organizers
Christian Lengeler (Content)
Konstantina Boutsika (Content)
Joanne Blackwell (Event)