Global Health Symposium – 22nd June 2016
Day 1
Time / min / Topic / Speakers9.00-9.30 / 30 / Registration
9.30-9.45 / 10 / Wellcome / Ara Darzi/Majid Ezzati
Session 1 / Technologies for Global Health
9.45 to 10:00 / 15 / Accelerating the discovery of malaria transmission-blocking drugs / Michael Delves
Faculty of Natural Sciences,Department of Life Sciences
10:00 to 1015 / 15 / In Vitro High Resolution Internal Magnetic Resonance Images of Biliary Carcinoma / Evdokia Kardoulaki
Faculty of Engineering,Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
10:15 to 10:30 / 15 / Serological Surveillance of Human Ebola Virus Survivors Using a Novel Smartphone-based Point of Care Test / Polina Brangel
Faculty of Engineering,Department of Materials
10:30 to 10:45 / 15 / MedNav- a medical navigation device that helps teamwork in emergencies. / Pippa Letchworth
Faculty of Medicine,Department of Surgery & Cancer
10:45 to 11:00 / 15 / Identifiying New Anti-malarial Targets using Activity-Based Protein Profiling / Dara Annett
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemical Biology
11:00 to 11:30 / 30 / Coffee break
Session 2 / Diagnosis, surveillance and delivery of care
11:30 to 11:45 / 15 / Investigating lymphadenopathy in a cohort of Peruvian patients: a prospective study defining aetiology and evaluating the Microscopic-Observation Drug-Susceptibility (MODS) assay for the diagnosis of lymph node tuberculosis. / Daniela E. Kirwan
Faculty of Medicine,Department of Medicine
11:45 to 12:00 / 15 / Understanding and intervening in tuberculosis and HIV-tuberculosis / Robert John Wilkinson
Faculty of Medicine,Department of Medicine
12:00 to 12:15 / 15 / Hepatitis B testing in HIV facilities in The Gambia: coverage and consequences / Gibril Ndow
Faculty of Medicine,Department of Surgery and Cancer
12:15 to 12:30 / 15 / Urinary Metabolic Markers in Cholangiocarcinoma / Munirah Alsaleh
Faculty of Medicine,Department of Surgery and Cancer
12:30 to 12:45 / 15 / Associations between municipality level governance, primary health care coverage and amenable mortality: longitudinal study of the Brazilian Family Health Program / Thomas Hone
Faculty of Medicine,School of Public Health
12:45 to 13:00 / 15 / Tracking Chagas disease in Latin America: a modelling study of incidence trends and burden of Chagas disease in Colombia / Zulma M. Cucunubá
Faculty of Medicine,School of Public Health
13.00-14.30 / 90 / Lunch and Poster viewing
Session 3 / Nutrition, the environment and global health
14:30 to 14:45 / 15 / Malnutrition in healthy individuals results in increased cytokine profiles and altered neutrophil function / Yegnasew Takele Teferi
Faculty of Medicine,Department of Medicine
14:45 to 15:00 / 15 / Diet and disease: transgressing knowledge boundaries in the Thai Northeast / Paladd Asavarut
Faculty of Medicine,Department of Surgery & Cancer
15:00 to 15:15 / 15 / The future of health: worldwide patterns in non-communicable disease risk factors among adolescents / Ver Luanni Feliciano Bilano
Faculty of Medicine,School of Public Health
15:15 to 15:30 / 15 / Linking schools and farmers: results from an impact evaluation of home grown school feeding in Ghana / Elisabetta Aurino
Faculty of Medicine,School of Public Health
15:30 to 15:45 / 15 / Land-use associated microclimate gradient effects on Asian tiger mosquito development / Nichar Gregory
Faculty of Natural Sciences,Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)
15:45 to 16:00 / 15 / An investigation into the roles of water, sanitation, and hygiene in the control of schistosomes and other helminths / Jack Grimes
Faculty of Engineering,Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
16:00-16:30 / 30 / Coffee break
16:30 to 17:30 / 60 / Keynote Lecture: “The black dog: why don’t we care?” / Professor Vikram Patel
17:30 to 17:45 / 15 / Award for best Poster and Talks / Majid Ezzati
17:45-19:30 / 105 / Reception / All participants