Bloomsbury Centre for Global Health Research Scientific Meeting – The Gambia and Zimbabwe – March 2022
A joint-location research meeting was held in The Gambia and Zimbabwe from the 14th to the 17th of March 2022, with presentations from past and current Clinical PhD fellows, Senior Fellows, and affiliated Fellows to the Programme and Centre.
The presentations from the following participants can be found below :
Monday 14th March 2022
| Beate Kampmann | Vaccine studies in the Gambia |
| Anja Saso | Pertussis vaccines: Old and New Challenges |
| Edwin Armitage | Beta-haemolytic streptococcal carriage and infection in The Gambia: clinical epidemiology, transmission dynamics and household modelling |
| Alex Keeley | Towards understanding natural immunity and identifying a serological correlate of protection to Strep A in The Gambia: Humoral immune responses with a focus on candidate-vaccine antigens |
| Penda Johm | Vaccine confidence in pregnant women and around COVID-19 |
| Tinotenda Taruvinga | COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Zimbabwe |
| Andrew Prendergast | Healthy birth, growth and development in rural Zimbabwe |
| Ceri Evans | Clinical and immunological outcomes of children with antenatal HIV and CMV exposure |
| Jon Sturgeon | Enteropathy and immune dysfunction in children with severe malnutrition in Zimbabwe/Zambia |
| Joe Piper | Characterising school-age growth, cognitive and physical function in rural Zimbabwe |
| Mutsa Bwakura | Malnutrition |
| Andrew Prentice | Nutrition research in The Gambia |
| Uduak Okomo | Routes of Transmission of infection in neonates |
| Helen Brotherton | Impact of early kangaroo mother care versus standard care on survival of mild-moderately unstable neonates <2000g: A randomised controlled trial |
| Simbarashe Chimhuya | Neotree: a digital tool to improve newborn care |
| Kirsty Le Doare | Maternal vaccination in Uganda |
| Naomi Wright | Improving neonatal surgical outcomes in low- and middle-income countries |
Tuesday 15th March 2022
| Ioana Olaru | Understanding Gram-negative infections and antimicrobial resistance in Zimbabwe |
| Rudo Chingono | Understanding the social dynamics of antimicrobial use following a typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign in Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Salome Manyau | FIEBRE: Understanding the Social Context of Antibiotic Prescribing and use in Zimbabwe |
| Saffiatou Darboe | Antimicrobial resistance in The Gambia; perspective on human health |
| Effua Yusuf | CADAMEM (Childhood Acute Respiratory Tract Infections Diarrhoea and Malaria – Epidemiology and Management) |
| Jeremy Hoffman | Managing fungal keratitis in Nepal: a randomised controlled trial comparing chlorhexidine 0.2% to natamycin 5% |
| Jayne Ellis | Integrated management of cryptococcal and opportunistic infections to improve outcomes in advanced HIV disease |
| Ruramayi Rukuni / Nyasha Dzavakwa | HIV and musculoskeletal health (IMVASK & Vitality) |
| Edith Majonga | Proinflammatory and cardiovascular biomarkers in children taking antiretroviral therapy |
| Rashida Ferrand | Improving HIV outcomes in young people – the CHIEDZA trial |
| Aoife Doyle | Y-Check: Evaluating the effectiveness of adolescent health check-ups |
| Joe Jarvis | What next for the management of cryptocccal meningitis? |
| David Lawrence | The Lived Experience of Participants in an African RandomiseD trial (LEOPARD) |
| Kris Murray | Effect of climate change on health |
| Ana Bonell | Impact of extreme heat on maternal and fetal physiology |
| Sharif Ismail | Multi-level perspectives on health system resilience: insights from responses to compound crises in Lebanon |
Wednesday 16th March 2022
| Celia Gregson | Musculoskeletal Health in sub-Saharan Africa: The Fractures-E3 Study |
| Vicky Simms | Physical and mental multimorbidity prevalence in healthcare workers |
| Claire Calderwood | Chronic disease screening and multimorbidity in TB-affected households |
| Charlotte Hanlon | Mental health |
| Charles Cleland | Artificial Intelligence Supported Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Tanzania |
| Rachael Burke | Preventing deaths among adults hospitalised with HIV: A trial of enhanced TB screening using CAD4TB and FujiLAM |
| Hannah Rickman | Identifying areas of high TB risk in Blantyre, Malawi |
| Kate Gaskell | Respiratory pathogen transmission in household contacts |
| Collins Timire | Effect of conditional cash transfer on MDR-TB treatment outcomes in Zimbabwe, a mixed method study |
| Fiona Cresswell | Long-acting HIV treatments in African settings |
| Keira Skolimowska | Investigating the role of platelets on neuroinflammation in TB meningitis |
| Liz Corbett | Community-led HIV self-testing: cluster-randomised trials in Malawi and Zimbabwe |
| Esin Nkereuwem | Childhood TB and lung health following treatment |
| Jayne Sutherland (1) & Leopold Tientcheu (2) | Novel TB diagnostics (1) and Informing MTBC strain-specific anti-TB treatments (2) |
| Louis Grandjean | Pathogen pre-resistance, transmission and immunity in TB and SARS-CoV-2 |
| Annette Erhart | Overview of malaria research in The Gambia |
| Umberto D’Alessandro | Overview of the MASSIV trial |
| Christian Kositz | Off-target impacts of ivermectin-MDA conducted for the elimination of Malaria |
| Anna Last | Overview of the MATAMAL trial |
| David McGregor | Surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance |
| Kevin Tetteh | Malaria Serology and the MRCG Luminex Hub |
| Alfred Ngwa | Applying state of the art molecular tools and modelling to malaria control |
| Harry Hutchins | Using multi-antigen serological profiles to understand exposure to Plasmodium falciparum |
| Hristina Vasileva | In silico classification of a Plasmodium falciparum hypervariable multigene protein family |
| Sophie Moss | Characterising genomic markers for drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum |
| Liz Pretorius | Evaluating the impact of ivermectin on malaria vectors |
Thursday 17th March 2022
| Rashida Ferrand | Establishing a COVID-19 treatment centre in Harare |
| Arun Fryatt | Decentralisation of COVID-19 care in Zimbabwe: training, stocks and oxygen |
| Farrie Nzvere | Making infection prevention and control everybody’s business in health facilities |
| Edson Marambire | Supporting essential workers in crises – establishing an occupational health screening programme |
| Katharina Kranzer | Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccine effectiveness in Zimbabwe |
| Madikoi Danso (Field) / Sheikh Jarjhu (Lab) | Understanding transmission dynamics for Sars-CoV2-a household contact |
| Abdul Cesay | Supporting governments through genomic surveillance in West Africa |
| Chido Dziva Chikwari | Sexually Transmitted Infections among youth in Zimbabwe: findings from STICH |
| Kevin Martin | Integration of point-of-care diagnostics for sexually transmitted infections in antenatal care in Zimbabwe |
| Mandi Tembo | Investigating the acceptability and effectiveness of a menstrual health and hygiene intervention within a community-based setting among young women in Zimbabwe. |
| Constancia Mavodza | Understanding the family planning experiences and needs of young women accessing the CHIEDZA intervention. |
| Fortunate Machingura | Differentiated prevention and care (AMETHIST) to support virtual elimination of infectious HIV among sex workers in southern Africa. |
| Gail Davey | Podoconiosis |
| Michael Marks | Severe stigmatising skin diseases: the SHARP study |