Watch the 2019 World Malaria Day Symposium, "Malaria Elimination in Africa" in the YouTube video files below.
Symposium Schedule and Poster Sessions
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019
Location: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Cost: Free for registrants
SCHEDULE - SOMMER HALL
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration – JHBSPH, E. Monument Street entrance first floor foyer Morning Coffee Social – Feinstone Hall E2030 |
| 9:00 – 9:05 am | Welcome – Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Dean Ellen MacKenzie, Bloomberg School of Public Health (video) |
| 9:05 – 9:15 am | Symposium Overview - William Moss (video) |
| Perspectives on Malaria Elimination – Moderator Brian Greenwood (video) | |
| 9:15 – 9:45 am | Kim Lindblade, World Health Organization The E-2020 initiative: The challenges in meeting national elimination goals in Africa (video) |
| 9:45 – 10:15 am | Laurence Slutsker, PATH PATH Malaria: Update on malaria control and elimination activities (video) |
| 10:15 – 10:45 am | Elizabeth Chizema Kawesha, Ministry of Health, Zambia Perspectives of malaria elimination – Zambia National Malaria Elimination Programme (video) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 am | Break – Feinstone Hall |
| Challenges to Malaria Elimination in Africa – Moderator William Moss | |
| 11:15 – 11:45 am | Hilary Ranson, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Malaria in insecticide resistant Africa: Do we have the tools to tackle this new reality? (video) |
| 11:45 – 12:15 pm | Teun Bousema, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands Asymptomatic reservoirs (video) |
| 12:15 – 12:45 pm | Amy Wesolowski, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The challenge of population mobility on malaria elimination in Africa (video) |
| 12:45 – 2:00 pm | Lunch and Posters – Feinstone Hall |
| 2:00 – 2:15 pm | Bloomberg Philanthropies JHMRI Video Presentation (video) |
| 2:15 – 3:00 pm | Rick Steketee, U.S. President's Malaria Initiative Keynote Address: Steps to malaria elimination in sub-Saharan Africa (video) |
| New Tools and Strategies for Malaria Elimination in Africa – Moderator Dyann Wirth | |
| 3:00 – 3:30 pm | Bryan Greenhouse, University of California San Francisco Tracking malaria from a drop of blood (video) |
| 3:30 – 4:00 pm | Flaminia Catteruccia, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health From the study of mosquito-parasite interactions to a new paradigm for malaria control (video) |
| 4:00 – 4:30 pm | Break – Feinstone Hall |
| 4:30 – 5:00 pm | David Smith, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington Malaria elimination's last mile: Quantifying challenges and evaluating solutions (video) |
| 5:00 – 5:30 pm | William Moss, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Malaria elimination in southern Zambia: Studies of the Southern and Central Africa International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (video) |
| 5:30 – 6:30 pm | Reception and Posters – Feinstone Hall |
Organized by Brian Greenwood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Dyann Wirth, Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health, and Bill Moss, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
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Image credit: Malaria Atlas Project, http://map.ox.ac.uk/