Global Health and Tropical Medicine
The increasing demand and use of high-quality samples and data place biobanks at the centre of basic and translational research. This seminar will address the importance of pre-analytical quality for sample diagnosis validation in order to help researchers meet the highest quality standards for their research.
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NTDs cause serious morbidity and disability, affecting 2 billion people in low- and middle-income countries. The main strategy for control of key NTDs is preventive chemotherapy (PC), the regular delivery of drugs to entire communities or specific sub-groups, such as children. PC NTDs of global importance include soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis, scabies, trachoma and yaws. The Kirby’s NTD research group is leading large-scale intervention research linked to novel diagnostics, social science, health economics and mathematical modelling aiming to contribute to the control and elimination of PC NTDs in the Asia-Pacific region and Africa. The RG leader will present an overview of that research with examples including cluster randomised control trials in Vietnam, Solomon Islands and Fiji; and impact assessments of PC programs in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Nauru, East Timor and Angola.
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GHTM Sessions 2022 CCI Diagnostics » Year Calendar » Sharing GHTM’s Cross Cutting Issues Diagnostics’ activities, knowledge and methodologies in this area.
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Cooperation between R&D institutions aims to minimise existing barriers to knowledge. Also, it may provide new research approaches, able to obtain faster answers in the investigative progress, as well as varied, but integrated, Big Data training, on health, in general, and on The One Health methodology, in particular. Thus, Fiocruz reaffirms its commitment to the IHMT and other Portuguese institutions to catalyse actions aimed at prospecting areas of future interest among the “Além-Mar” institutions.
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Human fungal infections are a growing problem having the Candida genus among the main causes. This lecture is an overview of the comparative genomic analysis of Candida pathogens, focusing on hybrid lineages and their evolution, addressing i) how spread are hybrids among Candida species, ii) the processes that drive their genomes’ evolution, and iii) the role that hybridisation might have had in the emergence of C. albicans, the major Candida pathogen.
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