2016 ASTMH Annual Meeting Blog

Efforts are being made to develop vaccines against a major contributor of stillbirths and infant deaths around the world.

A year after the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, a study led by researchers at Stanford University and Partners in Health identified 14 individuals previously unknown to have had the disease in a Sierra Leone village that was an Ebola hotspot during the outbreak

'The Refugee Journey to Wellbeing,' an interactive exhibit on display at the 2016 ASTMH Annual Meeting organized by ASTMH in partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with colleagues at the International Organization on Migration, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the UN High Commissioner on Refugees., is an appropriate follow-up to the mock-up of the Ebola treatment unit that was featured at last year's Annual Meeting

Disease Elimination: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and the Road Forward

What do you do when you have a PhD in applied physics from Rice University, solid experience in bioengineering, and a growing passion for doing something on the front lines of global health?  
You go speed networking.
 

The outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas is “the most complicated health emergency” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ever handled, said a top senior federal official Tuesday at a special Zika press briefing organized by the ASTMH leadership for the 2016 Annual Meeting.

What it takes to nurture growing bodies—not tiny predators.

Paul Farmer looked across the expanse of the cavernous hotel ballroom where he was chairing a symposium on Ebola and remarked on the wide variety of experts present. He noted that people attending the session at the 2016 ASTMH Annual Meeting included experts trying to understand the epidemiology of the outbreak that swept through Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in 2014, along with scientists probing the clinical course of Ebola infections, and researchers looking at the genomics of disease.

For the average traveler, bouts with diarrhea are so common that the term “traveler’s diarrhea” is casually used to describe what some consider just a typical hazard of adventures abroad.  But for the U.S. military, traveler’s diarrhea spreading through the troops can become a significant barrier to carrying out a military mission, said Mark Riddle, with the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, MD

Portland Oregon is well known for its beautiful parks and urban hipster culture. But here’s something that has not been featured on an episode of the popular TV show Portlandia: It turns out Portland is also a great place to study exposures to dengue, chikungunya and possibly Zika as well.

The inaugural Alan J. Magill Malaria Eradication Symposium launched November 13 at the 2016 ASTMH Annual Meeting with an all-star cast of malaria experts who left the clear impression that the vision of their late and beloved champion— of ending malaria in all its forms—is scientifically and logistically achievable

Data published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases appear to challenge our assumptions that the results of that trial were a chance finding. This new data could have the potential to impact not only malaria, but vaccine development.

In September 2016, Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) began assessing the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in all refugee camps in Gambella and Beneshangul-Gumuz regional states. RTI International posts a Q&A by with two experts leading this effort.

From moving quickly to train heads of state in risk communications, to making major decisions based on limited evidence, to sitting with Zika victims whose children had just been diagnosed with microcephaly, the head of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) offered a detailed assessment Sunday night of her experience with the sudden explosion of the Zika virus in the Americas.

CAPT Martin Cetron, MD, posts about The Journey to Wellbeing exhibit at the ASTMH 2016 Annual Meeting.

Could a tool once abandoned for Africa accelerate the end of malaria?

Carissa Etienne, MBBS, MSc, Director of PAHO, will deliver this year's keynote address.

Please join us for the inaugural Alan J. Magill Malaria Eradication Symposium, Nov. 14 at 4 p.m.

See who delivers this year's Commemorative Fund Lecture, Charles Franklin Craig Lecture and Vincenzo Marcolongo Memorial Lecture.

This year's Annual Meeting will offer free Wi-Fi to registered attendees.

Register after you arrive, during your travels or onsite, with no waiting in line at the registration area.