Scientific Day 2023

As every year, Epicentre's Scientific Day was an opportunity to discover current activities and projects, as well as to take stock of a topical issue during a round table discussion. You can (re)watch all the day's presentations in the replay below.

Moderator: Oumar Samake, AMEDD NGO

• 9:20 Hospital mortality by severe acute malnutrition diagnostic category among children aged 6-59 months, Katsina, Nigeria | Erica Simons, Epicentre | Read the abstract
• 9:30 The challenges of reducing child mortality at the district level: the case  Koutiala, Mali | Martin Yakum, Epicentre | Read the abstract
• 9:40 Stimnut: An innovative community-led research action of psychosocial stimulation intervention to improve the management of child malnutrition in Koutiala, Mali | Claire Bossard, Epicentre & Aissatou Diallo, MSF | Read the abstract

Moderator: Philippe Barboza, WHO

• 10:15 Case-area targeted interventions to rapidly contain the spread of cholera: updates from the DRC study | Nana Mimbu, Epicentre & Flavio Finger, Epicentre | Read the abstract
• 10:25  Assessing cholera transmission in endemic areas following mass preventive OCV campaigns in DRC | Anaïs Broban, Epicentre | Read the abstract
• 10:35 Epidemiological situation of cholera in 2023 | Flavio Finger, Epicentre | Read the abstract

Moderator: Christopher Mambula, MSF-OCP

• 11:50 Safety of hepatitis E vaccination in pregnancy following the first mass reactive vaccination campaign in Bentiu, South Sudan | Robin Nesbitt, Epicentre | Read the abstract
• 12:00 Description of the 2022 Ebola outbreak in Uganda | Denis Ardiet, Epicentre | Read the abstract
• 12:10 Lessons learned from the measles outbreak response project in the Katanga Region 2021/22 | Birgit Nikolay, Epicentre | Read the abstract
• 12h50 Preliminary results of retrospective mortality surveys among the populations in camps around Goma, DRC| Erica Simons, Epicentre

Moderator: Sabo Haoua Seini, CERMES

• 14:20 Efficacy and safety of Triple ACTs compared to conventional ACTs for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria: Preliminary results of the DeTACT trial in Niger | Ibrahim Ngoumboute, Epicentre Research Center, Niger | Read the abstract
• 14:30 Invasive bacterial infections in patients with advanced HIV disease in Kinshasa: prevalence, antibiotic resistance and treatment | Céline Langendorf, Epicentre | Read the abstract
• 14:40 Interim results of the multi-site incidence study of Lassa fever in West Africa | Anton Camacho, Epicentre | Read the abstract

Moderator: Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa, MSF-OCA

• 15:50 Impact of decentralisation of childhood TB diagnosis to district hospitals and primary health centers; example from Uganda | Naome Natukunda, Epicentre Research Centre, Uganda | Read the abstract
• 16:00 How new imaging techniques help diagnosing TB?
  • Ultrasound compared to chest X-ray to diagnose TB in Papua New Guinea | Maria Lightowler, Epicentre | Read the abstract
  • Implementation and feasibility of digital chest X-ray coupled to computer-aided detection (CAD) in active TB case finding in Tondo (Manila), Philippines | Trisha Angelie F. Thadhani, MSF Philippines & Emelie Yonally Phillips, Epicentre | Read the abstract

Moderator: Bruno Jochum, Climate Action Accelerator

• Laurie Marrauld, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP), The Shift projet
• Mairéad Lyons, Novartis
• Souleymane Brah, Hôpital National Amirou Boubacar Diallo (CHU) Lamordé Niamey
• Matthias Didier, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris.
• Emmanuel Baron, Epicentre

Maryline Bonnet, President of Epicentre

Abstract booklet

Photo Credit: Moses Sawasawa