8.30 //  Cafe Connect: Bring your hot drink, discover the platform & engage with the other attendees (virtual breakfast time!)

 

9.15 //  Welcome from the ISNTD

 

 

9.15-10.45  //  Overview of local and global vector control response

 

• Dr. Rajpal S. Yadav (World Health Organisation): The implementation of the Global Vector Control Response (2017-2030)

• Dr. Romeo Bellini (Centro Agricoltura Ambiente "Giorgio Nicoli"): Management of Aedes albopictus in Southern Europe

• Dr. Somia Iqtadar (Dengue Expert Advisory Group / King Edward Medical University Pakistan): Vector control activity tracking system

• Dr. Raman Velyudhan (World Health Organisation): Global strategy for dengue prevention and control 2021-2030

 

 

 

10.50-11.40  //  Genomics & proteomics: new horizons towards vector control

• Dr. Tom Schmidt (Research Fellow In Entomological Bioinformatics, University of Melbourne): Genomic signatures of invasion and insecticide resistance in Indo-Pacific Aedes mosquitoes

• Dr. Kevin Maringer (School of Biosciences and Medicine, University of Surrey): Studying arbovirus-vector interactions by proteomics

 

 

 

11.45-13:15 // ISNTD Bites ASEAN Panel: dengue in the age of pandemics, a new era 

 

Moving from regional to global cooperation in the control of vectors and vector-borne diseases

• Dr. Siti Nadia Tarmizi (Director for Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Prevention and Control, Ministry of Health Indonesia)

• Dr. Rose Nani Mudin (Head of Vector Borne Disease Sector, Ministry of Health Malaysia)

• Dr. Norielyn M. Evangelista (Program Manager, National Dengue Prevention and Control Program)

 

 

 

13.30-14.40  //  Built environment, vector control and disease prevention

• Dr. Fiona Shenton (BOVA Network Facilitator, based at Durham University): Built environment and vector control

• Babar Bhatti (Green Earth Recycling Pakistan): From plastic waste to disease-proofing the built environment

• Nnadi Emmanuel Ebuka (Swansea University, Chevening Scholar): Snake control and snakebite prevention

 

 

 

14.45-16.05  //  Insecticide resistance: challenges & solutions

• Rafi ur Rahman (Laboratório de Fisiologia e Controle de Artrópodes Vetores, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz): Insecticide resistance in Pakistan

 

• Dr. John Christian Hustedt (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine / Malaria Consortium): Use of pyriproxyfen in control of Aedes mosquitoes, a systematic review

 

• Beth Poulton (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): Automated phenotyping of mosquito larvae enables high-throughput screening for novel larvicides and smartphone-based detection of larval insecticide resistance

 

 

 

16.15-18.00  //  Neglected epidemics, global cooperation and the future of vector control

• Pr. Alfonso Javier Rodriguez-Morales (Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia and President, Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Infectious Disease Association): Dengue and COVID-19: Overlapping epidemics in Latin America

• Pr. Thomas Weitzel (Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile): Neglected vectors Scrub typhus in South America

 

• Dr. Claire Heath (Stanford University School of Medicine): Evidence of transovarial transmission of Chikungunya and Dengue viruses in field-caught mosquitoes in Kenya - implications for future outbreak risks