Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) small grants of up to £5,000 are to enable early career researchers and global health professionals in the field of tropical medicine or global health to undertake clinical or scientific research or fieldwork, as stand-alone projects or distinct elements within a larger project. Applications deadline April 15, 2020.
Dr Miriam K Laufer and Dr Lauren M Cohee are paediatric infectious disease specialists based at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, with a primary research interest in malaria and global child health. In this interview, they shared their knowledge and experience around novel chemoprevention strategies for malaria, focusing on school-based malaria interventions.
Prof Clara Menéndez is the Director of the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative and Programme at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). She has devoted most of her career to describing key determinants of maternal newborn and reproductive health problems and to design and test new interventions. We asked her some questions about her research interests and the projects she is involved with nowadays.
The 16th BioMalPar Conference on Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite will be held from May 18 - 20, 2020 at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.
The Hit-to-Lead Platform (HTLP) is designed to leverage medicinal chemistry expertise in Japan and facilitate access to Japanese companies or academic organizations’ relevant and diverse compounds for drugs development to address malaria, tuberculosis, Chagas disease, and Visceral leishmaniasis. Proposals deadline February 28, 2020.
BRIDGE is a joint programme conducted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and Innosuisse - the Swiss Innovation Agency, and consists of two funding opportunities at the intersection of basic research and science-based innovation. Deadlines February and March, 2020.
The 5% Initiative publishes two complementary but distinct calls for proposals on strengthening systems at all levels (community or national) that are gender-sensitive and to allow populations to access health quality services for vulnerable populations. Proposals deadline February 28, 2020.
This course offered by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on Design & Analysis of Cluster Randomised and Stepped Wedge Trials will be held from the 6th to the 10th of July, 2020, in London, UK. Applications deadline June 1, 2020.
The 20th International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (ICTMM) will be held from September 20 - 24, 2020 at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Thailand.
The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur of Montevideo are offering a course on Latin American Biology of Parasitism (LatAmBoP 2020), from the 22nd of June to the 3rd of July, 2020 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Applications deadline March 22, 2020.
