Volunteer as a MESA Correspondent to report from the ICPVR 2022
Are you interested in malaria research? Would you like to improve your writing skills? Would you like to attend the 8th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research for free? Here is your opportunity: volunteer as MESA Correspondent to report from the 8th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research 2022 (ICPVR2022)!
What do you have to do?
We are seeking volunteers as MESA Correspondents to report from the ICPVR2022. It is the first time this conference is a virtual event. The organizers hope that this allows for broader participation of researchers from endemic countries as well as students and early career researchers, for whom the high cost of the conference and travel might have been prohibitive in previous years! Therefore, MESA is looking for correspondents to attend virtually in April, from the 5th to the 8th.
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 ICPVR2022, which will take place on April 5 – 8.
- 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 ICPVR2022 Conference consists of:
- Curriculum vitae
- Motivation statement (100-word limit) indicating which areas of malaria you have knowledge of.
- 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 22, 2022. MESA Correspondents will be chosen by the MESA team based on the quality of the applications.
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