MSF Scientific Day International 2018
The MSF Scientific Days bring together researchers, innovators, and advocates in humanitarian global health to discuss and challenge research from within the sector.
Day 1: Research
Session 1: Chronic, challenges, new approaches
Moderators Nelly Mugo, Head, Sexual Reproductive Adolescent Child Health- Research Program at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
Improving tuberculosis case finding in Malawian prisons: Implementation of systematic screening. Reinaldo Ortuño Gutierrez, MSF | Watch the video
Successful implementation of HIV self-testing in rural Shiselweni, Swaziland. Robin Nesbitt, MSF | Watch the video
Provision of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis for female sex workers and men who have sex with men in Beira, Mozambique. Ivan Alejandro Pulido Tarquino, MSF | Watch the video
Integration of non-communicable disease care: Democratic Republic of Congo and Swaziland. Éimhín Ansbro, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Watch the video
Session 2: Surviving pregnancy, birth, and the first 1000 days
Moderator: Edna Adan Ismail, Midwife and founder of the non-profit Edna Adan Hospital in Somaliland
“Hoping for life while fearing death” – barriers and enablers to reproductive healthcare in Dollo zone, Ethiopia: qualitative study. Beverley Stringer, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Pregnancy and Ebola: survival outcomes for pregnant women admitted to MSF Ebola treatment centres in the West Africa outbreak. Séverine Caluwaerts, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Maternal factors associated with perinatal mortality: The 1000 Days cohort study, rural Niger. Renaud Becquet, University of Bordeaux | Read the abstract | Watch the video
“They share more than we think they are sharing”: a mixed-methods evaluation of post-natal clubs in South Africa. Mpumi Mantangana, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Session 3: Violence, displacement, and risk: populations under pressure
Moderator: David McCoy, Professor of Global Public Health at the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Queen Mary University London (QMUL)
Morbidity and occupational risks among factory workers in an urban slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Retrospective analysis. Mitchell Sangma, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
High levels of mortality, violence, and distress: Impact of the Syrian conflict on displaced people in Ein Issa camp, northeast Syria. Thomas Roederer, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Mortality and Violence in Haiti in 2023: 2 population-based surveys. Larissa Vernier, MSF | Watch the video
Using medical data to provoke political and social change – case study: Rohingya people in Bangladesh. Sidney Wong, MSF | Watch the video
Session 4: Data driving operational and policy responses
Moderator: Barbara Bannister, Honorary consultant, Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust
Effectiveness of combination therapy with liposomal amphotericin B and miltefosine for visceral leishmaniasis in HIV coinfection: DNDi/MSF strategy for policy change in East Africa. Charles Abongomera, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Real-time analysis of the diphtheria outbreak amongst forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh. Flavio Finger, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine & Kate White, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Medicine & Kate White, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Protective effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Niger: a prospective case-control study. Bachir Assao, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Single-dose oral ciprofloxacin prophylaxis in response to a meningococcal meningitis epidemic in the African meningitis belt: Three-arm cluster-randomized trial. Matthew Coldiron, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Day 2: Innovation
Session 1: People-powered innovation
Moderator: Nan Buzard, Head of innovation, ICRC
Social mapping in Malawi: involving humanitarian aid beneficiaries in decision-making during the response to an emergency. Labana Steven, MSF | Watch the video
Feasibility of using biochar briquettes as a household fuel by internally displaced populations: Assessment in Pulka and Gwoza towns. Anne Jansen, MSF | Watch the video
Session 2: Energy, environment, and health
Moderator: Peter Young, Director, ARUP
Sustainable off-grid oxygen concentration using direct solar power. Per-Erik Eriksson, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Are there health hazards from disinfection byproducts in humanitarian water? Findings from a MSF water treatment plant, Palorinya, Uganda. Matt Arnold, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Challenging traditional energy solutions: an innovative approach in Kenema Paediatric Hospital, Sierra Leone. Maria Ten Palomares, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Session 3: Cheap enough, good enough, safe enough?
Moderator: Armand Sprecher, Public Health Specialist, MSF
Failure of an innovative low-cost, non-invasive thermotherapy device in treating cutaneous leishmaniasis in Pakistan. Suzette Kämink, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Identifying optimal care for hepatitis C and overcoming barriers to scale-up: MSF pilot programme. Meiwen Zhang, Epicentre | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Monitoring of antimalarial drug efficacy using routine data. Martin De Smet, MSF | Watch the video
Feasibility of training MSF clinical officers in point-of-care ultrasound for paediatric respiratory diseases in Aweil, South Sudan. Adi Nadimpalli, MSF | Watch the video
Session 4: A focus on Syria and adapting technology for conflict and remote settings
Moderator: Ahmed Tarakji, President, Syrian American Medical Society
Electronic registry books: using mobile data entry to monitor healthcare use in Busra Hospital, southern Syria. Ghassan Aziz, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Smartphone based, real-time telemedicine for the management of neurological emergencies: a field-based quality improvement initiative. Fabien Schneider, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Evaluating 3D technologies for upper limb prosthesis design, Amman, Jordan. Pierre Moreau & Safa Herfat, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video
Assessing healthcare needs in an inaccessible conflict zone: Remote surveying in southern Syria. Tobias Homan, MSF | Read the abstract | Watch the video