Headline sessions announced!
Knowledge centres, non-profit organisations and professional networks across Europe and further afield collaborate on ECTMIH 2023 scientific programme
Knowledge centres, non-profit organisations and professional networks across Europe and further afield collaborate to launch ECTMIH 2023 scientific programme
We are delighted to announce early details of over 20 headline sessions organised by our ECTMIH 2023 partners and their collaborators across the globe. Wide-ranging topics and cross-cutting themes in these partner-organised sessions include planetary health, the EU global strategy, Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) elimination, refugee and migrant health advocacy, and specialist training in resource-poor settings. These will provide a comprehensive and stimulating framework for four days of debate and discussion at Congress in November.
Chair and Vice-Chair Rick Grobbee and Joyce Browne said “We were extremely impressed by the innovative thinking in so many of the submissions we received from our partners, and we are thrilled to have such an exciting framework of excellent programme content lined up, thanks to their contributions.”
Full details of partner sessions, including interviews with the organisers, will be released over the coming weeks.
In the meantime, here's a summary of those headline sessions, with hyperlinks to interviews, here:
| Partner organisation(s) | Session title | Provisional scheduling* |
| Federation of Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health | Decolonising global health | Tues 21 Nov, 08:30 |
| Médecins Sans Frontières | Planetary health and humanitarian crises response | Tues 21 Nov, 10:30 |
| Opleidingsinstituut Internationale Gezondheidszorg en Tropengeneeskunde (OIGT) or the Global Health and Tropical Medicine training institute | Global health physician specialization: field examples of sustainable collaboration training | Tues 21 Nov, 10:30 |
| Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences/Exposome-NL/UMC Utrecht | The exposome and planetary health - multi-faceted data for a multi-faceted field | Tues 21 Nov, 15:30 |
| Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences/Exposome-NL/UMC Utrecht | Plastics in our air, water, and places. Health effects and research challenges | Tues 21 Nov, 17:15 |
| UMC Groningen | Engaging communities in prevention and control of non-communicable diseases | Tues 21 Nov, 17:15 |
| Amsterdam Institute for Global Health & Development | The new EU Global Health Strategy: implications for research | Weds 22 Nov, 08:30 |
| Erasmus University Rotterdam | Improving targeting, take-up, and prevention of cardiovascular disease prevention in low-resource settings | Weds 22 Nov, 10:30 |
| Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute | Advancing Schistosomiasis control interventions towards the elimination goals 2030: innovative examples from eastern and central Africa using One Health and citizen science approaches | Weds 22 Nov, 10:30 |
| UMC Utrecht/O'Neill-Lancet Commission | Racism, inequity, health and well-being: an urgent call for a European stance | Weds 22 Nov, 10:30 |
| NWO (Dutch Research Council) - WOTRO (Science for Global Development) | Towards more adaptive and equitable research cultures for tackling complex health challenges | Weds 22 Nov, 15:30 |
| UMC Groningen | Innovating cervical cancer screening in low-and-middle-income countries and vulnerable groups in Europe | Weds 22 Nov, 15:30 |
| University of Utrecht | EAT-Lancet Commission: fair food transitions | Thurs 23 Nov, 08:30 |
| EWUU (Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research, Utrecht University and University Medical Centre Utrecht) Alliance | Health, food, water and sustainability at the rural-urban interface in the global south | Thurs 23 Nov, 10:30 |
| KIT Royal Tropical Institute | How sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) integration in medical curricula supports equitable and rights-based health around the globe | Thurs 23 Nov, 13:30 |
| KIT Royal Tropical Institute | Strengthening strategic planning and data for decision making in fragile and conflict-affected settings: methodological reflections and guidance | Thurs 23 Nov, 13:30 |
| Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute | Research and development on novel drugs for nematode infections: Insight from academia and Product Development Partnerships working together in the EU-funded Helminth Elimination Platform project | Thurs 23 Nov, 13:30 |
| Erasmus University Rotterdam | Climate change and health outcomes: extreme temperatures, air pollution, and policy instruments | Thurs 23 Nov, 15:30 |
*scheduling subject to change at this early stage of programming