Presentations and panel discussion running March 15th and 16th 2023, online. This event is free to attend; please register in the box above or email krafiq@isntd.org directly. Please note that we have an ultimate deadline for submissions of material on 10th March 2023 

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If you are interested in becoming a member of the ISNTD please find this link to memberships useful.

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DAY 1 - MARCH 15th 2023

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9:00-9:30 UTC

The role of communications in global health, the WHO's perspective

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Gabriella Stern (Director of Communications, World Health Organization)

Gilles Reboux (Producer, World Health Organization & leader of WHO's Health for All Film Festival)

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9:30-11:00 UTC

Film in global health: shining the spotlight on communities

 

Community Voices: Empowering & partnering with communities to fight mosquito-borne diseases

Bruno Col (Global Communications and Engagement Director, World Mosquito Program) and Alan Mee (Global Community Engagement Director, World Mosquito Program, WMP)

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From science to real life: tackling relapsing malaria in the Amazon

Elodie Jambert (Senior Director, Access and Product Management, Medicines for Malaria Venture, MMV

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Gilles Reboux (Producer, World Health Organization)

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11:15-13:45 UTC - From creative process to advocacy & workshop 

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11:15-12:45 UTC​

• Chikungunya disease awareness (Stéphanie Meyer and Judith Perez Gomez, Valneva)

• ING-MA: leveraging Artificial Intelligence in dengue campaigns (Ratchada Akkarasrimachai, Head of Vaccines, Takeda Thailand) and Phattraphorn Chunhakamolruck, Senior Product Manager, Takeda Thailand)
• "From neglect to hope: voices of leishmaniasis", (Ilan Moss, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative DNDi)

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12:55-13:40 UTC

• Getting the best out of your stories - a video marketing workshop (Steve Maud, Cloud9Media)   

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Watch the films featured in the above sessions here.

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13:45-15:15 UTC - Opportunities and innovation in apps for the control of neglected tropical diseases

• "Skin NTDs app" (Dr Jose Antonio Ruiz Postigo, World Health Organization, WHO)

• "Improving the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas diseases: the iChagas app" (Dr Colin Forsyth, DNDi)

• "Digital tools for community driven NTD management" (Delphine Pedeboy, Senior Partnerships Manager, and Sarvesh Tewari, Director of Innovation, Dimagi)

• "An ocean of data and the predictive telescope: AI predictive capacity, ChatGPT and the future of data comms", Prof Joacim Rocklöv (Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, HIGH)

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15:45-17:15 UTC - Creating interfaces between audiences, users and data in neglected tropical diseases

• KnowDengue website and experience (Dr Austin Wilson, Director Global Dengue Brand team, Vaccine Business Unit, Takeda)

• DxConnect test directories: a beacon of information in a sea of questions (Dr Anna Mantsoki, FIND the global alliance for diagnostics)

• Mrs Jessica Ahedor-Kyei (Founder and CEO, Science Journalism Ghana)

• "Strengthening the hands that matter: building the capacities of grass-root level health care workers in dengue prevention amidst a complex emergency", Dr. Lahiru Kodituwakku (Disaster Management Focal Point Medical Officer, National Dengue Control Unit, Ministry of Health Sri Lanka) and Dr. Jagath Amarasekera (Consultant Community Physician/ Specialist in Public Health, National Dengue Control Unit, Ministry of Health Sri Lanka)

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MARCH 16th 2023

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9:30-11:00 - How would you like to be informed? – Community Engagement for the introduction of (a new) paediatric bilharzia treatment

• "Introduction to the ADOPT Project", Jenny Burrill (Unlimit Health)

• "ADOPT social science approach: data gathering and direction", Lisa Reigl (Technical University of Munich, TUM)

• "Social science study in Kenya", Alice Sinkeet (African Institute for Health and Development, AIHD)

• "Social mobilisation strategy process – Examples from Kenya and input from sub-county and community levels", Florence Wakesho (Schistosomiasis and STH Program Manager, Ministry of Health Kenya)

• Isabelle Lange (Coordinating scientist of ADOPT at CGH / Technical University of Munich)

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11:30-12:30 UTC - Emerging creative voices in neglected tropical diseases: art, written word and film 

• "Creative voices & their role in raising awareness of Neglected Tropical Diseases", Obed Imbahafi (University of Kigali; World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO; storyteller)

• "Addressing the Elephant", Ireoluwa Adegoke (5th year medical student, University of Ibadan & illustrator)

• "Agony of the Night" & scabies in Ethiopia, Dereje Wonde (Bahir Dar University & 5S Foundation & Brighton and Sussex Medical School, BSMS) and Eyerusalem Kassahun (Addis Ababa University & 5S Foundation & Brighton and Sussex Medical School, BSMS)

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13:30-14:40 UTC - Changing narratives in global health and the African youth

• Mr Kamala Dickson (SADC Youth Head of Pan Africanism, Sports, Arts, Culture & Heritage Cluster)

• Dr Vivian Joseph (SADC Youth Health Cluster)

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14:40-15:15 ISNTD Festival Awards

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16:00-17:45 UTC - Arts and installations in neglected tropical diseases

• “Public engagement in art and science in insect vectors of NTDs in Fiocruz, Rio", Prof Fernando Genta (Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, and collaboration with the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

• “NTDs lab as an arts studio", Dr Rod Dillon (freelance NTDs scientist/artist @sandflyman) 

• “Playing with vinyl record microfluidics; socially engaged art practice and global health”, Dr Ross Dalziel (freelance maker & socially-engaged artist) 

• An interactive billboard experience to engage HCPs and the public on dengue fever (Mayumi Fujino Chang, Associate Director, Global Dengue Brand Team, Vaccine Business Unit, Takeda)

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