INTERVENTION RESEARCH TO IMPROVE HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: PROGRESS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. March 29th & 30th, 2012
The Tropical Epidemiology Group at LSHTM is organising a conference to mark 40 years since the formation of the Group. A distinguished panel of 30 international researchers has agreed to speak at the symposium, which will focus on the current status of interventions against major tropical diseases in the developing world and research priorities going forward.
Speaker include: Immo Kleinschmidt, Didier Diallo, Brian Greenwood, Peter Piot, Helen Weiss, Anatoli Kamali, Richard Hayes, Neal Alexander, Peter Smith, Paul Fine, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Helen McShane, Corinne Merle, Simon Cousens, Betty Kirkwood, Shah Ebrahim, Shabbar Jaffar, Kevin deCock and Tore Godal
SESSIONS INCLUDE
Malaria: from evidence to policy
HIV: progress, pitfalls and promise
Funder perspectives on intervention studies
Community randomised trials: advances and challenges
Decades of vaccines
Tuberculosis: tools for elimination?
Innovations in maternal, neonatal and child health
Non-communicable diseases: the coming plague
Daan Mulder memorial lecture: global health priorities and challenges
Research into practice: a funder's perspective
Information on the programme and registration details can be found at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/2012/03/intervention-research-to-improve-health-in-developing-countries-progress-and-future-challenges
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