PROGRAM
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(EN) - Talk held in English; (PT) - Talk held in Portuguese
DAY 1 | APRIL 25TH
14:00 Reception of audience, registration and networking
14:30 Opening remarks
Dr. Lara Ferrero Gómez | Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde
14:40 Speaker
Dr. Delenasaw Yewhalaw | Jimma University (Ethiopia)
Talk: Invasion and spread of an exotic mosquito vector Anopheles stephensi: a threat in malaria upsurge in Africa (EN)
15:10 Speaker
Dr. El Hadji Amadou Niang | Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal)
Talk: Integrated Molecular Surveillance for Evidence-based decision making and selection of cost-effective interventions: Case of the Malaria Vectors Surveillance in Senegal (EN)
15:40 Speaker
Mr. Manuel Lluberas | Mosquito Den LLC (Puerto Rico, U.S.)
Talk: Living with mosquitoes is not an inevitable consequence of living in the Tropics (EN)
16:10 Coffee break
16:40 Speaker
Dr. Baltazar Cá | Bandim Health Project; National Institute of Public Health (Guinea-Bissau)
Talk: Unlocking Solutions: Operational Research for Effective Malaria Control in Guinea-Bissau (PT)
Dr. Viriato M’Bana | Bandim Health Project/University of Massachusetts UMass Chan Medical School (Guinea-Bissau/U.S.)
Talk: The Dynamics of Malaria Co-infection (PT)
17:10 Speaker
Talk: O desafio da eliminação do paludismo em Cabo Verde e o combate a outras doenças transmitidas por vectores (PT)
Dr. Adilson de Pina | Malaria Elimination Program of Cabo Verde
Mr. Davidson Monteiro | National Institute of Public Health of Cabo Verde
Dr. Lara Ferrero Gómez | Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde
17:40 Discussion
18:00 End of session
DAY 2 | APRIL 26TH
08:00 Visit to Centro de Luta Antivectorial / Quartel General
08:30 Visit to Instituto Nacional de Saúde Pública de Cabo Verde (National Institute of Public Health of Cabo Verde)/ Laboratório de Entomologia Médica (Medical Entomology Laboratory)
09:30 Visit to Tropical Diseases Laboratory at Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde
10:30 Science Fair
Scientific material exhibition
11:00 Workshop (online): Vectors' management: basics on mapping and statistical analysis
Juan Pablo Orán Cáceres | TecnologiasIG, TIG Consulting
Marcos López-de-Felipe Escudero | Flebocollect: Medical Entomology Citizen Science Group