Volunteer as a MESA Correspondent to report from the Keystone Symposia Conference 2022 on Malaria
Are you interested in malaria research? Would you like to improve your writing skills? Would you like to attend the Keystone Symposia Conference for free? Here is your opportunity: volunteer as MESA Correspondent to report from the Keystone Symposia “Malaria: Confronting Challenges From Drug Discovery to Treatment”!
What do you have to do?
We are seeking volunteers as MESA Correspondents to report from the Keystone Symposia Conference on Malaria. The progressing situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic made the organizers to hold the meetings face to face as well as online and on demand. Therefore, MESA is looking for correspondents to attend virtually in April, from the 10th to the 13th.
With the help of some guidelines shared in advance, the MESA Correspondents summarize the contents of selected malaria talks in a short report. The reports are reviewed by recognized senior malaria editors and afterwards, they are published and disseminated through the MESA channels.
Previous examples include:
- ASTMH 2021 Annual Meeting (virtual)
- 1st Virtual and 7th PAMCA Conference & Exhibition 2021
- 1st Women in Malaria (WiM) Conference 2021
What will you get?
- Free registration to the virtual Keystone Symposia Conference, which will take place on April 10 – 13.
- Certificate of participation in the MESA Correspondents program, highlighting the supervision at the hands of a senior malaria editor.
- Priority when offering new opportunities to collaborate with MESA.
- Visibility. The reports are disseminated through multiple channels: MESA website, social media, MESA newsletter and Malaria World newsletter, among others.
- Enhancement of your writing skills and improvement of your CV.
How to apply?
The application to become a MESA Correspondent for the Keystone Symposia consists of:
- Curriculum vitae
- Motivation statement (100-word limit) indicating which areas of malaria you have knowledge of and why you want to be part of the program.
- Synopsis of one of these videos (200-word limit)
- Investigating the magnitude and drivers of residual malaria transmission in Zanzibar, speaker: Khamis Haji, Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program, Tanzania link
- Protective efficacy of a spatial repellent against malaria infections in children: recent evidence from a clinical trial in Indonesia, speaker: Din Syafruddin, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Indonesia, link
- Tracking the local and regional spread of Plasmodium falciparum in low transmission settings of Africa, link
- Reactive case detection with targeted mass drug administration: Interrupting malaria transmission and achieving elimination beyond intervention areas in northwestern Peru, link
The opportunity to be a correspondent is open to everyone, and researchers or students from malaria-endemic areas are highly encouraged to apply. Please send applications to mesa@isglobal.org no later than March 30, 2022. MESA Correspondents will be chosen by the MESA team based on the quality of the applications.
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