Elimination Exchange: Recent Episodes
Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE)
Join the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) as we invite a diverse set of experts to explore the tools, interventions, and innovations that will help us advance disease elimination efforts to consign ancient diseases of poverty to the history books.
Dr. Effe Espino, Head of Parasitology at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), Department of Health, Philippines, discusses the ongoing efforts being undertaken to integrate and enhance the surveillance of malaria and lymphatic filariasis.
On World Malaria Day, Dr Sarthak Das, CEO of the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance, talks about the importance of regional advocacy, cross-border collaboration, and political commitment to eliminate malaria in Asia Pacific.
Professor Monique Dorkenoo parle des stratégies mises en place par le Togo pour éliminer quatre des MTNs: la dracunculose, éléphantiasis encore appelée la filariose lymphatique, la trypanosomiase africaine ou la maladie du sommeil et le trachome.
Cette discussion virtuelle du 15 février 2023 a accueilli un panel d'experts impliqués dans diverses parties de la chaîne de valeur des maladies tropicales négligées (MTN) qui ont réfléchi aux questions présentées dans un nouveau document de travail. Ils ont également fourni des informations sur les opportunités et les défis pour faire avancer les solutions proposées de financements innovants pour les MTN. Lisez le document de travail ici.
This virtual panel discussion on 15 February 2023 hosted a panel of experts involved in various parts of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) value chain who reflected on issues put forth by a new discussion paper and provided insights into the opportunities and challenges of advancing the proposed solutions for innovative finance for NTDs.
Read the discussion paper here.
Professor Emilienne Epée shares her perspectives on the importance of community engagement to help advance elimination of NTDs in Cameroon. Professor Epée is Chief of Service and focal point in charge of NTDs in the Department of Disease Control of the Ministry of Public Health in Cameroon.
Dr Greg Noland of The Carter Center shares his reflections on the Center's Hispaniola Initiative, which works with the ministries of health in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from the countries' shared island, Hispaniola.
In early November, GLIDE hosted a roundtable event in partnership with a number of leading global experts. The subject of the debate was how best to turn the rhetoric around needing more country-led development, which we’ve seen in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, into concrete policies.
This was the first in a series of Glide Labs events, in which we’ll be convening diverse voices to take a fresh look at pressing global health challenges.
In this episode of Elimination Exchange, Dr Frank Richards of The Carter Center reflects on over 40 years of work in river blindness.
Professor Dan Fletcher from UC Berkley talks about the LoaScope, an innovative field diagnostic tool developed by his group to help accelerate progress towards onchocerciasis (river blindness) elimination in Africa.