Scientific Day 2025

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

The next Scientific Day will be held on 4 June 2025 at the Institut Pasteur ; the entrance is at 205 Rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris.

It will also be broadcast live on our website.

Important: Mandatory registration for the Scientific Day

For security reasons, registration is mandatory. A personal QR code will be sent to you the day before the event, and it will be required to enter the Institut Pasteur.

⚠️ Without prior registration, you will not receive the QR code and will not be allowed access.
Please also bring a valid photo ID, which will be checked at the entrance.

This programme is still subject to minor adjustments: some presentations and times may change and some titles are still provisional. All times are CET.

9h10 Cancer 

Moderation: Prof. Pauline Byakika-Kibwika, Vice-Chancellor MUST & Claire Rieux, OCP 

• Comprehensive cervical cancer care in a high burden setting: MSF experience in PAVE study (provisional title) | speakers to be confirmed
• Survival of patients with cervical or breast cancer followed up from 2019 to 2024 in three University Hospital Centers (CHU) in Bamako, Mali | speakers to be confirmed
• Childhood cancer in Uganda: experience and patient cohort at Mbarara Regional Hospital (provisional title) | Barnabas Atwiine, MRH

10h10 Tuberculosis

Moderation: Cathy Hewison, MSF France & Marc Biot, APH-MSF

• New treatment decision algorithms for TB in children: diagnostic accuracy, impact, and considerations for implementation | Helena Huerga & Emily Briskin
• endTB-Q: final results of a Phase 3 randomized controlled trial in pre-XDR tuberculosis | Lorenzo Guglielmetti, MSF France
• Medium- and long-term post-tuberculosis sequelae burden in sub-Saharan Africa: Post-TB SIQ project | Gino Agbota, IRD

11h30 Outbreak 

Moderation: Steve Ahuka,  INRB-RDC & Yap Boum, Africa CDC & MSF-WACa

• Retrospective study of diphtheria outbreak, Kano state, Nigeria 2023-2024  | Jonathan Polonsky
• Multidimensional study of the epidemiology and prevention practices of Mpox in Budjala Health Zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Sophie Meakin and Cheick Oumar Doumbia 

• Mpox clade Ib: epidemiological highlights from the Uvira outbreak, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2024-2025 | Isidro Carrion-Martin, OCA

   

12h15 Violence 

• Mixed-methods approach to describing violence and mortality among Malian refugees and host populations: a cross-sectional and participatory study in the Bassiknou district, Mauritania| Gaston Komanda & Pascale Lissouba 

• Mortality, morbidities and access to care among families of MSF staff, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestine Territory | Jomaa Younis, Operational Research Focal Point, MSF-OCP, Gaza

   

14h10 Cholera

• Integration of cholera Rapid Diagnostic Tests into surveillance systems: results from a multisite mixed-methods study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Niger | Wendelin Moser
• Cholera outbreak dynamics and reactive vaccination campaigns in South Sudan: key insights and challenges | Abou Aissata Soumah

• Immune response to a delayed second dose of oral cholera vaccine: a randomized, controlled, non-inferiority and immunogenicity trial in Conakry, Guinea | Fabienne Nackers 

   

15h10 Malaria

Moderation Saschveen Singh & Dr Mahamat Saleh Issakha Diar, PNLP Tchad, Dr Antoinette Demian, Director of Vaccination, Disease Control, and Epidemiological Surveillance, MSP Chad

• Prevalence of pfhrp2/3 deletions in South Sudan: results of a 10-site national survey  | Erwan Piriou

• Using malaria routine surveillance data to assess the effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Moissala, southern Chad | Jessica Sayyad Hilario  & Nicholas Putney

   

16h30 Malnutrition

• GASTROSAM: Exploring the best rehydration strategies for malnourished children with moderate to severe dehydration | Kemi Ogundipe & Roisin Connon
• A qualitative approach to explore the challenges of diagnosis and management of the bilateral pitting edema in children living in Mali and Democratic Republic of Congo | Giulia Scarpa

• Understanding Kwashiorkor Better: New Clues from Advanced Biological Research  | Bryan Gonzales, Ghent University

   

17h25 Diagnostics for Antibiotic Stewardship: Guiding Better Prescriptions

Moderation: Rupa Kanapathipillai, OCP & Didier Guillemot, Institut Pasteur 

• Integrating rapid and laboratory STI diagnostics tests into symptomatic management in an adolescent clinic, Zimbabwe | Gerald Hangaika, MSF OCB Zimbabwe
• Cumulative antibiogram and retrospective chart review of antibiotic stewardship for pediatric patients at Barnersville Junction Hospital, Monrovia, Liberia | Emily Lynch
• Evaluation of a laboratory rapid test for confirmation and characterisation of carbapenemase-producing bacteria in MSF laboratories | Céline Langendorf

If you are attending in person, you must register to receive a QR code to validate your entry to the Institut Pasteur. You will also need to present identification to gain access. The entrance is at 205 rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris.