Intervention research to improve health in developing countries: Progress and future challenges
Date: Thursday 29 March 2012
Time: 9:00 am - Friday 30 March 2012 4:30 pm
Venue: John Snow, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
Type of event: Conference
To mark over 40 years of research on major health problems in developing countries, the Tropical Epidemiology Group is hosting a symposium on “Intervention research to improve health in developing countries: Progress and future challenges”. The symposium will take place on 29th and 30th March 2012 here at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
A distinguished panel of 30 international researchers has agreed to speak at the symposium, which will focus on the current status of interventions against major tropical diseases in the developing world and research priorities going forward.
Panel sessions include:
- Malaria: from evidence to policy
- HIV: progress, pitfalls & promise
- Funder perspectives on intervention studies
- Community randomised trials: advances and challenges
- Tuberculosis: tools for eradication?
- Innovations in maternal, neonatal & child health
- Non-communicable diseases: the coming plague
Speakers: Immo Kleinschmidt, Didier Diallo, Brian Greenwood, Peter Piot, Helen Weiss, Anatoli Kamali, Richard Hayes, Neal Alexander, Peter Smith, Paul Fine, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Helen McShane, Corinne Merle, Simon Cousens, Betty Kirkwood, Shah Ebrahim, Shabbar Jaffar, Kevin deCock and Tore Godal
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** Please note: this event will be filmed**
For more information about the Tropical Epidemiology Group please visit our website: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/eph/ide/research/teg/ or http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/eph/ide/research/teg/40thanniversary/
Email: TEG@lshtm.ac.ukFile: TEG40 Symposium Programme.pdf
