#ASTMH23

Last session for me today, in what I was apparently supposed to be tagging #TropMed23 instead of #ASTMH23.

Social and behavioral research for development and evaluation of vector control

Next session of #ASTMH23 is Science Under Assault, aka the first conference talk I've ever seen security for

Donal Bisanzio again, now on movement and dz transmission in Kenya #ASTMH23

Combined questionnaire and GPS points to estimate movement patterns

Put in Cassandra to stimulate disease X, id'd potential hotspots

Donal Bisanzio on the 2023 Ebola outbreak in Uganda #ASTMH23

Cassandra (network) Model to see what would have happened without preparedness

5m delay in response, 5x deaths
Hits Kampala? Repeat of W Africa outbreak

Next Noel Patson on causal inference to estimate the impact of insecticide treated bed nets on malaria #ASTMH23

Fear of malaria is a time-varying confounder. Net use increases with incidence. Use MSM with IPTW to account for confounding. Found significant protection after adjusting

First modeling session of #ASTMH23, starting with Jeanne Lemant on decisions for seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Benin

Include older children or more districts? Used OpenMalaria ABM

Geographic expansion would reduce cases more, and more cases averted/$

Me in front of a poster

Abrar Hussain in front of a poster

Suman Bhowmick in front of a poster

Come find us in the entomology posters at #ASTMH23

Maina L'Amour Jackson on the CEPI disease X vaccine library development program #ASTMH23

Goal: 100d from detection to vx trials. C19 was 326d. More initial prep needed- prototype libraries, clinical trial networks, lab networks, manufacturing capacity

Libraries need risk ranking viral families

James Bangura on One Health surveillance for disease X in Sierra Leone #ASTMH23

Looking for the source of the Ebola outbreak, found multiple zoonotic viruses in bats before spillover

Broaden stakeholder engagement inclusively
Build systems for sustainability
Integrate!

Jane Fieldhouse on timeliness in One Health outbreak response #ASTMH23

717: 7d to detect, 1d to alert, 7d to respond

Outbreaks in Uganda, prediction, prevention, and after action reports not often reported. Failure of interoperability of reporting channels. Frequent, scary dz response faster

Next is Angel Desai on the accelerating pace of EIDs #ASTMH23

Many factors driving emergence yet to be fully understood, but wildlife, travel, land use change are important

Early warning systems need to involve multiple driving factors. We lack data on behavioral factors

First full day of #ASTMH23 starting with Jonna Mazet in the spillover session

Don't talk about spillover in the singular- it happens more than you think

We need the anthropologists, communication, etc to understand risk

260 known zoonotic viruses, 0.5m likely out there

Happy to be at my 1st in person #ASTMH23

Starting with Ambassador John Nkengasong on Global Health Security

The 5 ps for managing pandemics: politics, population, policies, partnerships, pathogen

Examples from PEPFAR and C19

We can do science, but without politics nothing happens