Scientific Days International 2025
The MSF Scientific Days bring together researchers, innovators, and advocates in humanitarian global health to discuss and challenge research from within the sector.
MSF Scientific Day was on 22 May 2025. This annual conference highlights medical research from fragile and conflict-affected settings, bringing together researchers, innovators, and advocates in humanitarian global health.
Session 1: The London Calling: Operationalising research from findings to frontlines
Bending the curve of hepatitis C virus infection in Machar Colony: a mass screen-and-treat intervention in a slum settlement in Karachi, Pakistan | View the abstract | View the slides
Derivation and validation of prognostic models for the risk stratification of childhood infection: a multi-country prospective cohort study in Asia (Spot-Sepsis) | View the abstract | View the slides
Schistosomiasis in South Sudan: integrating presumptive neglected tropical disease treatment into primary health care| View the abstract | View the slides
Prevalence of pfhrp2/3 deletions in South Sudan: results of a 10-site national survey | View the abstract | View the slides
Implementation of treatment-decision algorithms for children with pulmonary tuberculosis: cross-cutting lessons for operational scale-up | View the abstract | View the slides
Session 2: Rethinking approaches to malnutrition as cases rise and budgets shrink
Integration of psychosocial stimulation for children with severe acute malnutrition (aged 6–23 months) into a nutrition programme in Koutiala, Mali: the STIMNUT study | View the abstract | View the slides
Assessing the effectiveness of targeted supplementary feeding programmes for moderate acute malnutrition in northeastern Nigeria: results of a mixed-methods study | View the abstract | View the slides
Session 3: Melioidosis, microbes, and mosquitoes: Pushing boundaries for the most neglected and most vulnerable
The microbiology of noma: insights from a pilot deep shotgun metagenomic project of patients presenting at the Noma Children’s Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria | View the abstract | View the slides
Introduction of Wolbachia in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for prevention of dengue transmission in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: a mixed-methods implementation study | View the abstract | View the slides
Newly discovered paediatric melioidosis in Mali: the tip of an African iceberg? | View the abstract | View the slides
Session 4: Vaccination, a humanitarian lifeline under threat: Where do we focus? How do we resist?
DTP1-3 and MCV1 vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: mapping zero-dose and under-vaccinated children | View the abstract | View the slides
PCV rollout in Somaliland: modelling introduction in a low-coverage setting | View the abstract | View the slides
Operational feasibility and acceptability of the addition of R21 malaria vaccine and intermittent preventive therapy for children to existing malaria control initiatives in Kule, Ethiopia | View the abstract | View the slides