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Education

The education program at the ASTMH Annual Meeting includes these primary components:

  • Pre-meeting courses
  • Abstracts (oral and poster)
  • Symposia
  • Plenary sessions

Call for Abstracts
Abstract acceptance notices will be sent in early September. The submission deadline was May 28.
Download the Call for Abstracts.
Review the Abstract Submission Guidelines.

Late Breaker Abstracts
Submission Deadline -- October 15
Late breaker abstract notices will be sent in mid-Novemer. Click here to submit your abstract.

Pre-Meeting Courses

  • Clinical Pre-Meeting Course – Saturday, December 6, and Sunday, December 7
    Malaria Eradication: Calibrating Aspirations, Technology and Commitment
    In the past five years, there has been enormous change in the financing and implementation of malaria prevention and treatment to meet agreed upon uptake goals, and this process had already been accelerated under the concept of “Scaling up for Impact” that is based on the potential for higher impact when the control program is scaled up rapidly rather than incrementally.  A number of countries, supported by major financing agencies have made commitments to drive malaria control interventions up to optimize impact. This course is designed to provide the participant an exposure to experts in the range of relevant topics to review the historical and contemporary issues that frame global malaria control strategies and programming.  The course will focus on providing participants a broad interactive opportunity to learn about the rationale, feasibility and strategic approaches to intensification of malaria control.

  • Parasitology Pre-Meeting Course – Saturday, December 6
    Whole Genome Association Studies: 
    Understanding the Genetic Basis of Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases
    This course will target scientists, physicians, clinicians, graduate students and educators with interests in the rapidly evolving field of whole genome association studies and how these approaches can be used to understand the basis for susceptibility or resistance to infectious diseases.  Topics will include an overview of whole genome association, a review of the state of the art in technology development, an overview of computational analyses and biostatistics and a discussion of some of the bioethical considerations associated with these studies.

Plenary Sessions
Opening Plenary Lecture--Sunday, December 7
Sir Richard Feachem
The Genius of Boldness: Thinking Big in Global Health
Professor of Global Health
University of California at San Francisco--Global Health Science
Formerly Executive Director
United Nations Global Fund

Charles Franklin Craig Lecture
Robert Swanepoel
Special Pathogens Unit
National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Sandringham, South Africa

Commemorative Fund Lecture
Carlos Morel
Director, Center for Technological Development in Health
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil