ISID NEWS August 2018 ~ Outbreak Watch

Thursday, August 23, 2018

ISID NEWS August 2018

Posted on 8/23/2018 02:32:00 PM by Pranab Chatterjee

VOLUME 14 • August 2018

2018 International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance

Vienna, Austria - November 9-12, 2018

New Plenary Speaker:

Christine KREUDER JOHNSON, USA

'Biodiversity Loss and Emerging Infectious Diseases'

IMED has provided CME credits for previous meetings and has applications pending for IMED 2018.

The updated scientific program is on the IMED website.

Early registration deadline: September 30

THE LATEST AT ISID

19th International Congress on Infectious Diseases - 2020

The 19th ICID will be held in KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA in February 2020. We look forward to returning to Asia, to KL, a great venue and another exciting meeting.

Welcome

Linda MacKinnon joins ProMED as the new Assistant Director. Linda is a public health professional with global experience in infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology.

2018 ISID Research Grant Awards

The ISID Research Grants were very competitive this year with more than 334 proposals received. Research Grants were awarded to:

Ms. Peris Wambugu (Kenya) The 2018 Norman Stein grantee for the highest ranked proposal
Ms. Wa Ode Dwi Daningrat (Armenia)
Dr. Clement Adu-Gyamfi (South Africa)
Dr. Tharaka Ranathunge & Mr. N.W.B.A.L. Udayanga (Sri Lanka)
Dr. Myo Muang Muang Swe (Myanmar)
Mr. Begashaw Melaku Gebresillassi (Ethiopia)
Dr. Junior Mudji (Dem. Republic of Congo)
Dr. Emmanuel Ngbede (Nigeria)

18th ICID Abstract Supplement published in the IJID

The variety of topics covered by the more than 750 abstracts presented at the Congress reflect ISID’s central mission, to focus on the burden of infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with particular emphasis on infections of paramount importance in the host country and region, and to provide a forum for healthcare professionals from all areas of infection-related practice to unite and interact.

ProMED weekly video updates

Check out the newest ProMED feature: weekly video updates with highlights from the world of infectious diseases surveillance.

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Featured content - August 2018:

The role of HIV infection in the etiology and epidemiology of diarrheal disease among children aged 0–59 months in Manhiça District, rural Mozambique. Read the article
Reduced transmission of Mycobacterium africanum compared to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in urban West Africa. Read the article
Course of serological tests in treated subjects with chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data. Read the article

The official publication of the ISID, the International Journal of Infectious Diseases is published in an open access format on a monthly basis. The IJID aims to provide a source of information relevant to professionals involved in the epidemiology, clinical diagnosis, treatment and control of infectious diseases. The Journal emphasizes those diseases which are most common in under-resourced countries.

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