Education

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

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

Slides Available
Symposium 35A: Roll Back Malaria Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group: Progress and New Initiatives to Improving M&E for Malaria Control Programs

Symposium 80: Global Health Programs in University settings: What's out there?

Audio-Visual Instructions
Download the AV guidelines.

Abstract Presentations
Acceptance notices have been sent.
Review the Abstract Submission Guidelines.
Download the Poster Presentation Instructions.

Late Breaker Abstracts
Late breaker abstract notices will be sent in mid-November.

Pre-Meeting Courses

• Clinical Pre-Meeting Course – Saturday, December 6, and Sunday, December 7
  Malaria Eradication: Calibrating Aspirations, Technology and Commitment
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  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
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  Download the agenda, which includes topics and speakers.
  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, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and Undersecretary General, United Nations

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