ISNTD Connect GSA Webinar Series

GSA has partnered with ISNTD for this initiative. Using the successful ISNTD Connect webinar platform, the skilled compering from the ISNTD team, and the large and diverse technical expertise in the GSA network, we bring you a schistosomiasis focused webinar series called the ISNTD Connect GSA Series.

Started in 2020, our collaborative series has continued into 2022-2023 with a mix of research themed and panel discussion webinars. You can watch the recordings below.

Please anouk [dot] gouvras [at] eliminateschisto [dot] org (get in touch) if you have an idea or suggestion for a webinar.

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Webinar | Where are the samples? Biobanks for NTD research and development

In this ISNTDConnect webinar, we showcase the need for biorepositories and biobanks for research and development in NTDs.

Webinar | Lab to the field; molecular diagnostics in low resource settings

In this ISNTDConnect, we are showcasing exciting innovation in molecular diagnostics in low resource settings, a laboratory in a suitcase, developed by Xpedite Diagnostics for molecular work in resource limited settings.

Webinar | The Geshiyaro Project: integrating WASH & NTD to break helminths & schistosomiasis transmission

In this ISNTD Connect session, Milkias Lakew and Endriyas Shobew present on behalf of World Vision Ethiopia on The Geshiyaro Project: breaking the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis through WASH-NTD integration

Webinar | FreeBILy: diagnostic clinical trials for schistosomiasis

This ISNTD Connect meeting takes a closer look at recent clinical trials towards new diagnostics for schistosomiasis, focusing on the freeBILy trial.

Webinar | Panel - the urgency and practicalities of integrating Female Genital Schistosomiasis into Women’s Health & Primary care services

Part 2 of our webinar series, Delivering on Women's Health, with ISNTD and SCI Foundation / La deuxième partie de notre nouvelle série de webinaires, Delivering on Women's Health, avec l'ISNTD et la Fondation SCI.

Webinar | Integrating prevention of Female Genital Schistosomiasis into women’s healthcare services in Côte D’Ivoire

In this ISNTD-Connect webinar, we hear from Dr Kouamin, the Project Coordinator of the FGS pilot study, Mr Timite, a nurse in Soubré district, Dr Kane, doctor, Soubré district, Côte d’Ivoire and Ashley Preston, SCI Foundation, discuss learnings from a pilot project to improve preventive treatment coverage for women and to find the best approach for integration.

Webinar | Citizen science and snail-borne diseases in Uganda: boosting data collection and empowering communities

This webinar spotlights a citizen science approach to boosting snail intermediate host data collection and community engagement for getting closer to schistosomiasis elimination.

Webinar | Schistosomiasis in the Philippines. The Struggle Never Stops

In this ISNTD Connect and GSA collaborative webinar scientists discuss schistosomiasis control, elimination and innovation in the Philippines.

Webinar | Biological control of schistosomiasis: potential, evidence and the way forward

In this GSA - ISNTD Connect webinar, Prof Giulio de Leo, Dr Susanne Sokolow and Dr Nana Rose Diakité discuss biological control of schistosomiasis, learning from experiences in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.

Webinar | The role of vaccines in the elimination of schistosomiasis

The role of vaccines in the elimination of schistosomiasis, covering the feasibility of vaccines, from development, to delivery; calculating the cost-effectiveness of a range of vaccination programmes and modelling the level of efficacy required for impact.

Webinar | Schistosomiasis in Malawi: future control isn’t quite like it used to be

Highlighting ongoing epidemiological changes witnessed by better appreciation of male genital schistosomiasis, an outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis and emergence of a novel set of hybrids schistosomes. Collectively, these dynamics require a broadening of future control interventions with wider intersectoral actions, ultimately adoption of a OneHealth approach.

Webinar | #ChooseToChallenge inequity in NTD research

International Women's Day panel, looking at the importance of having women from Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) endemic countries working in, and leading, NTD research.

1 December 2020

Webinar | Ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic: the impact of tackling Female Genital Schistosomiasis

For World AIDS Day Prof Margaret Gyapong and Dr Amaya Bustinduy will talk about the impact of Female Genital Schistosomiasis on women, communites and global health.

10 November 2020

Webinar | New pediatric treatment to fill gaps towards the elimination of schistosomiasis: a scientific journey for and with society

On UNESCO World Science Day, Dr Maurice Odiere (KEMRI), Dr Jutta Reinhard-Rupp (Global Health Institute, Merck) and Dr Remco de Vrueh (Lygature) talk about their collalborative work in the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium.

Webinar Control and elimination of schistosomiasis in Cameroon: introducing the Roadmap towards 2030

In this ISNTD Connect GSA series webinar, Professor Tchuem Tchuenté from the University of Yaoundé I, presented and discussed the control & elimination of schistosomiasis in Cameroon: introducing the Roadmap towards 2030.

Webinar | Rethinking WASH for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis.

Yael Velleman (Director of Policy and Communications, SCI Foundation) and Gilbert Baayenda (Trachoma Program Officer & NTD/WASH Collaboration focal point at the Vector Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases Division, Ministry of Health, Uganda) discuss "Rethinking WASH for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis".

Webinar Climate change: helping or hindering Neglected Tropical Disease elimination?

Dr Mark Booth from the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University examines and discusses the impact of climate change on NTD elimination efforts.

Where can a 50-year career in schistosomiasis take you geographically and scientifically? A conversation with Dr. Dan Colley

"Where can a 50-year career in schistosomiasis take you geographically and scientifically?", a conversation with Dr. Dan Colley (Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Georgia) & Dr. Goylette Chami (Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford).

Webinar: Schistosomiasis treatment gaps hinder elimination efforts: a current perspective

Derick Osakunor, from the University of Edinburgh, discusses the current treatment gaps in different age groups and how these are hindering the schistosomiasis goal of "elimination as a public health problem".

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