The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases
OneHealth NTD Inaugural Conference

Delivering the Remedy: Integrating Multidisciplinary Prevention and Cure for NTDs

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
June 7th 2012

8.30 Registration

9.00 Welcome from the ISNTD – Marianne Comparet
Opening address by Pr. Alan Fenwick, OBE - “Elimination of NTDs by 2020 – an ambitious target”

9.30 Dr. Melissa Parker – Brunel University
9.45 Dr. Mark Booth – Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University
“Without Science There is No Endgame”
10.00 Dr. Katja Polman – ITM Antwerp
“Challenges and Opportunities in NTD Control & ITM’s Views and Research Activities in this Field”
10.15    Panel A – MDAs: approaches, refinement, evolution

11.15 Coffee Break

11.45 Mr. Roy Head – Development Media International
“Delivering Health Impacts in Developing Countries through Mass Media Behaviour Change Campaigns”
12.00 Ms. Sarah Nancollas - LEPRA
“LEPRA & Lymphatic Filariasis”
12.15 Dr. Dorothy Nyambi – The Leprosy Mission Canada
12.30   Panel B – Leprosy: on the verge of elimination?

13.15 Lunch

14.15 Pr. Sue Welburn – University of Edinburgh
“Sleeping Sickness - No Longer Neglected?”
14.25 Dr. Michael Jennings – SOAS
14.35 Ms. Sadie Regmi – UAEM
"Improving Global Health: Intellectual Property Rights & Alternative Ways of Incentivising Innovation"
14.45 Pr. Tim Allen - LSE
15.00   Panel C – The Political Economy of NTDs

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Dr. William Wint – EDENext
16.40 Dr. David Aanensen – EpiCollect
16.50 Mr. Hadyn Parry - Oxitec
17.00 Dr. Darren Cook – A-WOL & Liverpool School of Tropical Med.
17.10 Dr. David Shotton – University of Oxford
“Open Research Reports”
17.20   Panel D – Emergent Technologies for NTDs

18.20 Concluding remarks