The Society, with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking forward to bringing 44 Travel Award winners to the 2013 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
These awards – offered to qualified students, early career investigators and scientists – will facilitate participation for those who might not otherwise be able to attend. Selected recipients enhance the overall scientific quality and learning potential and present abstracts at the meeting.
ASTMH began these “Travel Awards” in 1991 and over time with the addition of Gates Foundation funding, a total of 478 promising early career investigators (not including the 2013 recipients) have been able to attend and participate in the Annual Meeting.
The Society is grateful to Travel Award Committee Chair Nirbhay Kumar, PhD, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and the rest of the committee for their outstanding work this year.
The following individuals have been selected this year:
Poom Adisakwattana, Mahidol University
Bahita Ashenafi Assefa, Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute
Pebanne Atemba, University of Yaounde
Mary Auma, St. Mary's Hospital Lacor/Gulu University
Kodjo Ayi, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre-TMDT
Geral Baldeviano, Naval Medical Research Unit No. Six
Sarah-Blythe Ballard, Johns Hopkins University
Kayla Barnes, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Douadi Benacer, University of Malaya
Elizabeth Brickley, University of Cambridge/NIH
Awa Bineta Deme, Hospital Aristide le Dantec
Georges Diatta, Institut de Recherche Pour Le Developement
Titus Divala, Blantyre Malaria Project
Adriana Echazu, Instituto de Investigaciones En Enfermedades Tropicales
Clement Elanga N'Dille, Institut de Recherche Pour Le Developpement
Robyn Elphinstone, University of Toronto
Thanyalak Fansiri, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences
Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Giovan Gomez, Universidad de Antioquia
Maria Isabel Hoshi, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Nona Jiang, University of Virginia
Mario Jiz, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine
Stephen Kinara, Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Worachet Kuntawunginn, Armed Force Research Institutes of Medical Sciences
Kofi Kwofie, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
Nancy Matowo, Ifakara Health Institute/London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Clement Meseko, National Veterinary Research Institute
Belinda Morahan, Monash University
Agnes Nanyonjo, Karolinska Institutet and Malaria Consortium-Uganda
Birgit Nikolay, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Melissa Nolan, Baylor College of Medicine
Jovvian Parakkal, NIH-ICER-NIRT
David Pigott, University of Oxford
Anuradha Rajamanickam, NIH-ICER-NIRT
Wanlapa Roobsoong, Mahidol University
Joan Simam, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Program
Michael Smout, James Cook University
Wesley Solomon, Morehouse School Of Medicine
Isaac Ssewanyana, Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration
Hyacinthe Toe, Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme
Lindsey Turnbull, University of Notre Dame
Timothy William, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Nana Wilson, Morehouse School of Medicine
Guang Xu, University of Texas Medical Branch.