BioMed Central, in conjunction with its journals Malaria Journal and Parasites & Vectors, is hosting the second malaria conference “Challenges in Malaria Research: Progress Towards Elimination” in Basel, Switzerland from 10 – 12 October 2012.

Following the success of the inaugural malaria conference in 2010, entitled “Parasite to Prevention: Advances in the understanding of malaria”, this second conference will bring together leading malaria researchers to review current progress and to chart future challenges.

Internationally renowned speakers will present their insights into malaria elimination, including social science and policies; Artemisinin resistance; new drugs; vaccines; diagnostic challenges and vector controls.

• All participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations

• Highly topical scientific program

• Internationally renowned invited speakers and organizing committee

Speakers

Pedro Alonso, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Spain

Kevin Baird, Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Jakarta, Indonesia

Teun Bousema, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

Richard E. Cibulskis, Global Malaria Programme WHO, Geneva

Don de Savigny, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Abdoulaye Diabaté, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Chris Drakeley, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

Simon Hay, University of Oxford, UK

Stephen Hoffman, Sanaria Inc., Rockville, USA 

Steve Lindsay, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

James McCarthy, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia

Hassan Mshinda, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, Tanzania

Halima Mwenesi, FHI 360, Washington, USA

Robert Newman, Global Malaria Programme WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Kate O'Connell, ACTwatch PSI, Nairobi, Kenya

Robert Sinden, Imperial College London, UK

Laurence Slutsker, Center for Global Health CDC, Atlanta, USA

Richard Steketee, PATH, Seattle, USA

Marcel Tanner, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Tim Wells, MMV, Geneva, Switzerland

Nicholas J. White, University of Oxford, UK

Bryan Yeung, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore

Session themes

 - Malaria metrics – The challenges today

 - Health systems and system-based interventions

 - R&D agenda for malaria eradication and the science of elimination

 - Recent research advances

 - The situation of P. vivax

 - Diagnostic challenges

 - New drugs and drug combinations

 - Artemisinin resistance

 - Vector control

 - Towards the malaria vaccine(s) we need

 - Elimination challenges

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Co-organizers

Marcel Tanner, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Marcel Hommel, University of Liverpool, UK

Conference committee

David Arnot, University of Edinburgh, UK

David Bell, FIND, Geneva, Switzerland   

David Rollinson, Natural History Museum, London, UK

Willem Takken, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Ambrose O. Talisuna, World Wide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), Nairobi, Kenya

Tim Wells, MMV, Geneva, Switzerland

Nicholas J. White, University of Oxford, UK

Holly A. Williams, CDC, Atlanta, USA

Dyann Wirth, Harvard University, USA