This fall, you can find MCD Global Health staff presenting our work through oral and poster presentations on community health workers (CHWs), recovery careers, rural health, behavioral and mental health, telehealth, and malaria. See below for details and make sure to attend if you’re at one of the conferences!

Maine Public Health Association (MPHA)

Monday October 27, Augusta, Maine, U.S. (view schedule)

• 1:30-2:30 p.m., Breakout Session 1: As part of a three-person panel, Cristine Leal, senior program manager, will present virtual CHW Training in Maine: A model for workforce growth and meaningful connection.
• 2:45–3:45 p.m., Breakout Session 2: Catherine Sanders, senior program manager, Michaela Fascione, program manager, and Samantha Mariano, associate program manager, will present Breaking Barriers, Building Relationships: Recovery Career Advancement for Lived Experience Providers.

New England Rural Health Association (NERHA)

Tuesday, November 4–Wednesday, November 5, Mystic, Connecticut, U.S. (view schedule)

• 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Tuesday, November 4: Sherri Billings, associate program manager, and Michaela Fascione, program manager, will present on Project ECHO® for Impact: Strengthening Rural Behavioral Health Systems.
• 2:30–3:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 4: Dara Fruchter, strategic initiatives and special projects manager, will co-present on Mammha: A New Pathway to Accessing Perinatal Mental Health Support and Emotional Wellness in Maine.
• 4–5 p.m., Tuesday, November 4: Danielle Louder, co-director of U.S. Programs, and Reid Plimpton, program manager of the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center, will present Bring the Tech to Them! Developing Telehealth Access Points (TAPs) in Non-Medical Settings.

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)

Sunday, November 9–Thursday, November 13, Toronto, Canada

12:30 p.m., Monday, November 10, Poster Session A

• MCD staff as co-author: 6363 - Malaria Age and Prevalence on Bioko Island: Patterns, Process, and Prediction (view abstract)
• 6430 - Using campaign data, artificial intelligence and social networks for improving malaria knowledge base and intervention delivery (view abstract)

Noon, Tuesday, November 11, Poster Session B

• 6813 - Larval source management as a feasible intervention for vector control in urban Malabo: generating evidence of its impact in a relatively isolated urban community (view abstract)
• MCD staff as co-author: 6920 - Spatial Dynamics of Malaria Transmission on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (view abstract)
• 6987 - Application of GC3, a locus read coverage assessment tool, and machine learning to predict copy number variations of pfmdr1, plasmepsin-2, and plasmepsin-3 among Plasmodium falciparum strains (view abstract)
• 7078 - Comparison of Real-Time PCR and the Kato-Katz Method for the Diagnosis of Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Equatorial Guinea (view abstract)

11 a.m., Wednesday, November 12, Poster Session C

• MCD staff as co-author: 7396 - Vector Control Failure Modes and Troubleshooting (view abstract)
• 7473 - Emerging signals of artemisinin partial resistance in Equatorial Guinea: Analysis of parasite clearance rates and molecular markers from therapeutic efficacy studies (view abstract)
• 7564 - Outreach training and supportive supervision for malaria case management in Equatorial Guinea: using data to increase impact (view abstract)
• 7565 - Beyond Technical Expertise: Building Effective Malaria Trainers in Equatorial Guinea Through a Multi-Stage Approach (TOT) in Equatorial Guinea (view abstract)
• 7587 - Leveraging malaria campaign data to inform population estimates on Bioko Island (view abstract)

4 p.m., Wednesday, November 12, Convention Center, Room 701B: Oral presentation

• 7798 - David Galick, monitoring and evaluation manager of the Bioko Island Malaria Elimination Project (BIMEP): Evaluating the impact of vector control service interruptions: an interrupted time series analysis of Bioko Island malaria indicator survey and health information system data (view abstract)