Scientific Day 2024

Every year, Epicentre's Scientific Day offers an opportunity to learn about our ongoing activities and projects, as well as to engage in discussions on relevant topics. Each session will foster in-depth reflection on the impact of conducted studies and their practical applications.

The Scientific Day took place on 23 May 2024 at the Salons de l'Aveyron (17 Rue de l'Aubrac, 75012 Paris) and was broadcast live on our website. The sessions are now available on this page.

Moderators: Sarah Chateau, MSF France & Claire Nicolet, MSF France

• High mortality and violence among refugees and returnees from West Darfur, Sudan arriving in Chad, 2023: results from three retrospective mortality surveys | Erica Simons, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• Mortality and Violence in Haiti in 2023: 2 population-based surveys | Thomas Roederer, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video

Moderators: Farah Hossain, MSF Japan & Alain Alsalhani, Acess Campaign, MSF

• A concern for large-scale treatment access: High prevalence of active HCV infection among Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals residing in camps, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh | Birgit Schramm, Epicentre & Farah Hossain, MSF Japan | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• Determining whether mass vaccination campaigns with fractional dose of PCV10 (Pneumosil®) could accelerate herd protection against pneumococcal transmission in sub-Saharan Africa | Issaka Soumana, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video

Moderator: Christopher Mambula, MSF France & Etienne Guillard, MSF France

• Exploring patient preferences and outcomes: the example of new differentiated models of HIV care delivery in Uganda and the DRC among people living with HIV | Jihane Ben-Farhat, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• Challenges and lessons of implementing models of HIV Care in Carnot, Central African Republic | Valentina Carnimeo & Pascale Lissouba, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• Community household child contact investigation for tuberculosis | Anca Vasiliu, IRD | Read the abstract | Watch the video

Moderator: Iza Ciglenecki, MSF Suisse & Mélanie Marti, WHO

• First mass reactive vaccination campaign against Hepatitis E: main results of observational studies | Etienne Gignoux, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• Hepatitis E outbreak response in Fangak County, South Sudan: coverage and acceptance of a vaccination campaign targeting women of reproductive | Joseph Aumuller, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video

Moderators: Cathy Hewison, MSF France & Dr Stavia Turyahabwe, Ugandan tuberculosis and leprosy control program at the Ministry of Health

• ‘You can save a life if we get those algorithms right’. A multi-country mixed-methods evaluation of new paediatric TB diagnostic algorithms | Sofia Payotte & Giulia Scarpa, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• Treatment of children and adolescents with MDR/RR-TB regimens containing bédaquiline and delamanid: results from the endTB observational study | Mathieu Bastard, WHO | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• endTB clinical trial: results in key subgroups of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis | Maelenn Gouillou, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video

Moderators: Prof. Steve Ahuka, INRB DRC & John Johnson, MSF France

• Effectiveness of rVSV-ZEBOV vaccination during the 10th Ebola virus disease epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective observational analysis | Sophie Meakin, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• Case fatality risk among individuals vaccinated with rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP: a retrospective cohort analysis of patients with confirmed Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Rebecca Coulborn, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video

Moderator: Ismael Adjaho, MSF WaCA & Prof. Steve Ahuka, INRB DRC

• Measles confirmation and seroprevalence: addressing the challenges of sample collection and laboratory procedures | Céline Langendorf & Birgit Nikolay, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• Multi-country validation of a simple alert system to improve measles outbreak response | Catherine Eisenhauer, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
• The surge of diphtheria in 2023: Global overview, MSF responses & challenges | Yves Amevoin, Epicentre & Franck Ale, MSF WaCA | Read the abstract | Watch the video

Abstract booklet

Discover the posters presented during the Scientific Day. If you have any questions, you can click on the name of the person to send them a message.

• Impact of OCV preventative campaigns strategies for cholera elimination: a comprehensive research project in Democratic Republic of the Congo | Anaïs Broban
• Severe maternal complications in ICU Jahun CEmONC, Nigeria | Huiwu Chen
• Les médicaments de la CPS sous la loupe | Francesco Grandesso
• Local cumulative antimicrobial susceptibility report: results from MSF pediatrics and surgical programs | Celine Langendorf
• A multi-site pilot study of the deployment of cholera rapid diagnostic tests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Wendelin Moser
• A nutrition linelist | Mathilde Mousset & Emmanuel Grellety
• Enhancing Adolescent HIV Care: Implementation and Evaluation of Teen Models-of-Care for Adolescents living with HIV in Uganda and Malawi | Sarala Nicholas
• Reconstruction of transmission chains from the 9th Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in DRC, 2018 | Hugo Soubrier
• Présentation du Centre de recherche du Niger
• Presentation of the Research centre at Mabarara in Uganda

The first cohort of the FETCH (Field Epidemiology Training in Humanitarian Contexts) programme took place in 2022-2023, with 7 epidemiologists. Below are the posters from their training course.

• Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention coverage survey for children 3 months – 8 years in Aweil, South Sudan, 2022 | Tambe Elvis Akem | Listen to the author present the poster
• Prevalence of active Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection and associated factors among Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals residing in camps, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Khondaker Ahsanul Ashakin
• Mortalité rétrospective et séroprévalence des anticorps anti-SARS-CoV-2 au Cameroun | Justin Eyong | Listen to the author present the poster
• Identification des zones de santé prioritaires pour le renforcement de la surveillance épidémiologique dans l’Ex-Province orientale en RDC. Christian Masudi
• Enquête de mortalité, de prévalence nutritionnelle et de couverture vaccinale rougeole sur 3 camps de réfugiés soudanais et de retournés tchadiens à l’est du Tchad. Pascale Ouédraogo
• Evaluation des ripostes vaccinales rougeole dans le grand Katanga en 2021 et 2022 | Halidou Salou
• Factors associated with death among meningitis patients during the 2022-2023 epidemic in Jigawa State, Nigeria. Martin Ndinakie Yakum