Ashwaq Alnazawi (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): dengue in Saudi Arabia
Ashwaq Alnazawi is a PhD student from Saudi Arabia, currently undertaking research within the Vector Biology Department at the Liverpool...
The MENTOR Initiative: championing an integrated response to dengue outbreaks worldwide
Dengue fever is the world’s fastest growing infectious disease. Figures from the WHO estimate that “3.9 billion people in 128 countries...
Dengue in Europe: a disease of the tropics on the move?
For European citizens, thinking about dengue fever as a threat to public health in Europe might seem irrelevant… Indeed, the World Health...
Chronic shortage of funding thwarts Kenya’s dengue control efforts
Until an outbreak at the Kenyan coast, dengue fever had been a disease that scientists did not lose sleep about. A 2011 outbreak in...
Dr. Chin-Hui Yang (Taiwan Centers for Disease Control): tackling dengue in Taiwan
Dr. Chin-Hui Yang is Director of the Division of Acute Infectious Diseases at the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control. After several...
Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai (Institut Pasteur): genetic susceptibility to dengue
Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai Institut Pasteur Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases In the age of the 24 hour news-cycle we are all...
Dr. Francis Moussy (World Health Organisation)
Dr. Francis Moussy World Health Organisation Essential Diagnostics List Secretariat In May 2018, the World Health Organisation led the...
Blaine Doyle (GlowDX) What's the point-of-care-ing about data?
Blaine Doyle CEO of GlowDX a diagnostics start up shares his thoughts about the importance of data generated at point of use and its potenti
Dr Laurence Flevaud (MSF) Diagnostic tools - Unmet needs and how to boost development
Dr Laurence Flevaud (MSF) Diagnostic tools - Unmet needs and how to boost development
Dr Xavier Ding (FIND) Next Generation Plasmodium vivax diagnostics - TPP's
Dr Xavier Ding (FIND) discusses the challenges and hurdles in terms of defining next generation Plasmodium vivax diagnostics -for control an
