LSHTM-RAFT and the MENTOR Initiative Seminar: Malaria and other life-threatening diseases in conflict-based humanitarian crises and natural disasters
The Resilience Against Future Threats) (RAFT) and the MENTOR Initiative organizes the hybrid seminar: Malaria and other life-threatening diseases in conflict-based humanitarian crises and natural disasters.
Date: 11th of June, 2025.
Time: In person: from 18:15 – 21:00 BST; Virtually: 18.30 – 20.00.
Venue: The Atlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster, and virtually.
The world is facing an ever-growing public health crisis due to conflicts, extreme weather caused by climate change, and forced displacement, which significantly increases the risk of disease and death. Protecting people in the most vulnerable settings, displaced, isolated, and living in temporary shelter,s is critical to stabilise communities and help save the lives of over 250 million people affected by humanitarian crises every year. For the first time, leading specialists from the humanitarian, vector control and public health sectors are coming together to discuss the challenges and innovative new solutions that are reshaping the response to vector-borne diseases in a crisis, at scale.
Joining RAFT and The MENTOR Initiative on the panel are representatives from UNHCR, The Global Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières, World Health Organization, SC Johnson and Sumitomo Chemicals.
Keynote speakers:
- Dr Louisa Messenger, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health’s Environmental and Global Health Department, University of Nevada
- Dr Richard Allan OBE, Chair of the Board and founder, The MENTOR Initiative
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