ASTMH 2023

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting is taking place from 18–22 October 2023. ASTMH is designed for researchers, professors, government and public health officials, military personnel, travel clinic physicians, practicing physicians in tropical medicine, students and all healthcare providers working in the fields of tropical medicine, hygiene and global health.

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Sessions

• 18 October 2023, 17:30 CDT, Grand Ballroom – Ballroom Level (East Tower)

Plenary session I: opening session and awards programme

Daniel Bausch, Senior Advisor, Global Health Security, FIND and President, ASTMH will chair this session and present the awards ceremony.

• 19 October 2023, 11:05 CDT, Crystal Ballroom B – Lobby Level (West Tower)

Antimicrobial stewardship in LMIC: impact of research, training, biomarkers, and digital health tools

Juvenal Nkeramahame, Clinical Trial Manager, will give a presentation on the AMR diagnostic use accelerator.

• 19 October 2023, 15:00 CDT, Grand Ballroom – Ballroom Level (East Tower)

Science under assault

Daniel Bausch, Senior Advisor, Global Health Security, FIND and President, ASTMH will join a panel in this session.

• 20 October 2023, 9:00 CDT, Grand Ballroom CDEF – Ballroom Level (East Tower)

Plenary session III: commemorative lecture

Daniel Bausch, Senior Advisor, Global Health Security, FIND and President, ASTMH will chair this session.

• 20 October 2023, 11:20 CDT, Grand Ballroom A – Ballroom Level (East Tower)

A scientist’s cheat sheet to understanding

Daniel Bausch, Senior Advisor, Global Health Security, FIND and President, ASTMH will give a presentation on translating science into key messages for policymakers.

• 20 October 2023, 18:15 CDT, Crystal Ballroom A – Lobby Level (West Tower)

PfHRP2/3 deletion: a call to action

Ewurama Owusu, Scientist, FIND will give a presentation on surmounting global challenges of hrp2/3 gene deletion in malaria diagnostics: the role of FIND partnerships.

• 21 October 2023, 8:15 CDT, Crystal Ballroom B – Lobby Level (West Tower)

Clinical tropical medicine: arboviral infections

Jyotshna Sapkota, Consultant, FIND will give a presentation on a comparative evaluation of five rapid diagnostic tests for dengue diagnosis

• 21 October 2023, 10:15 CDT, Grand Ballroom CDEF – Ballroom Level (East Tower)

Plenary session IV: President’s address: a forward look from the society’s present and past presidents

Daniel Bausch, Senior Advisor, Global Health Security, FIND and President, ASTMH will chair this session.

• 22 October 2023, 13:00 CDT, Crystal Ballroom B – Lobby Level (West Tower)

Clinical tropical medicine: neglected diseases and fevers

Juvenal Nkeramahame, Clinical Trial Manager, will give a presentation on diagnostic tools and algorithms at the point of care to safely reduce antibiotic prescriptions for acute febrile illness management.

Posters

• 19 October 2023, 12:00 CDT

Poster Session A

Victoria Aroworade, Technology Associate, will present a poster on the DxConnect test directories: global impact through accessible data on diagnostic assays

• 20 October 2023, 12:00 CDT

Poster Session B

Jyotshna Sapkota, Scientist, will present a poster on evidence generation for tools for severity triage of febrile patients in low-resource settings: a mixed-methods study.

Serafina Calarco, Scientific Officer, will present a poster on analytical performance of 17 commercially available point-of-care tests for CRP to support patient management at lower levels of the health system.

Marco Marklewitz, Scientist, will present a poster on learnings from sequencing capacity building in low- and middle-income countries for genomic surveillance beyond COVID-19.

• 21 October 2023, 11:00 CDT

Poster Session C

Devy Emperador, Senior Scientist, will present a poster on filling the information gap: FIND’s mpox test directory and performance evaluations

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