Bay Area World Malaria Day Symposium
April 25, 2012
Designed to share knowledge, foster exchange, encourage collaboration and raise awareness, the partial-day event brought together over 120 attendees and presenters representing the growing interdisciplinary community of local researchers, implementers and advocates in the global fight against malaria.
Our panel of 28 symposium speakers represented a broad array of organizations and industries:
educational and research institutions
University of California at San Francisco, Berkeley and Stanford University
non-profit, social enterprise and community organizations
OneWorld Health, Malaria.com, Strike Out Malaria, Faiths Act and
Living Goods Community Partners International
pharmaceutical and biotech industries
Novartis, Amyris and TruTag Technologies, Inc.
Explore the 2012 symposium
Meeting Materials and Participant Information
- Final program
- Final agenda
- Presenter biographies
- Presentation abstracts – pending
Program:
Welcome
Jaime Sepulveda, Executive Director, UCSF Global Health Sciences
Keynote Address
Jay Keasling, Associate Laboratory Director, UC Berkeley’s Physical Biosciences Division, LBL
and Synthetic Biology Engineer Research Center
**Disclaimer: several of the original sound bite presentations featured substantial slide animation. The online pdf versions cannot feature this dynamic presentation mode. If you are interested in viewing the original versions, please contact the presenters directly as the UCSF Global Health Group and Zagaya cannot distribute them.**
Sound Bite Session #1:
Research and Exploration
- Selection for Decreased Sensitivity of Malaria Parasites to Artemisinin Partner Drugs: Phil Rosenthal, Professor of Medicine, UCSF
- IRS Insecticides for Malaria Control and Child Neurodevelopment in South Africa (slides are not publicly available): Fraser Gaspar, PhD Student, UC Berkeley Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Antimalarial Chemoprevention in a Cohort of Ugandan Infants: Grant Dorsey, Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
- Artemisinic Acid in S. cerevisiae: Continued Progress: Max Schubert, Associate Scientist, Amyris
- Whole Genome Translation in P. falciparum: Florence Caro, Graduate Student, UCSF
- Pharmacologic Considerations in the Treatment of Malaria in Africa: Sunil Parikh, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Sound Bite Session #2:
Technical Innovation
- CellScope as a Platform for Malaria Diagnosis: Arunun Skandarajah, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Fletcher Lab
- Development of Trioxolane Drug Hybrids for the Targeted Delivery of Antimalarial Agents: Shaun Fontaine, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF Small Molecule Discovery Center
- Presentation is not publicly available: Manu Prakash, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
- PlasmoTrack: Tracking Malaria Parasites for Malaria Elimination: Bryan Greenhouse, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF
- The Artemisinin Project: Partnership and Innovation to Ensure Artemisinin Supply for Malaria Treatments: Elena Pantjushenko, Associate, External Affairs, OneWorld Health, an affiliate of PATH
- TruTag: On-dose Authentication to Fight Diversion and Counterfeiting of Drugs: Peter Wong, Chief Operating Officer, TruTag Technologies Inc.
Sound Bite Session #3:
Implementation of Campaigns, Programs, and Policy
- Malaria.com: a Global Resource for Malaria Information and Networking: Claire Standley, Managing Editor, Malaria.com
- Strike Out Malaria: Bob Mott, Co-Founder of Strike Out Malaria, USF
- The Role of Faith Communities in Malaria Prevention: Rachel Finn and Nina Pine, Faiths Act Fellows, Faiths Act, Tony Blair Faith Foundation
- Empowering ‘Avon’-like entrepreneurs to deliver life-saving and life-changing products to the doorsteps of the poor: Molly Christiansen, Director of Research and Development, Living Goods
- Active Case Detection in an Elimination Era: Hugh Sturrock, Malaria Elimination Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF Global Health Group
- Averting a Malaria Disaster in Southeast Asia: Community Based Approaches to Contain the Spread of Artemisinin Resistance in Eastern Burma: Linda Smith, Program Director of Infectious Diseases, Community Partners International – Global Health Access Program
- Malaria Resurgence: a Systematic Review and Assessment of its Causes: Chris Cotter, Malaria Elimination Initiative Analyst, UCSF Global Health Group
- Maintaining the Gains in Global Malaria Control: Gavin Yamey, Evidence to Policy Initiative Lead, UCSF Global Health Group
Michele Barry, Senior Associate Dean of Global Health; Director for the Center for Innovation in
Global Health, Stanford University
Jay Keasling, PhD, speaks at the Bay Area World Malaria Day Symposium, 2012.
