On-line registrations will close on 27th September 2013. Limited on-site registrations at the conference venue will be accommodated. If you have not received confirmation of payment, please forward proof of payment to Ms Merlin Osborne at merlin.osborne@mrc.ac.za as soon as possible. Delegates who have not registered or paid their registration fees will not be granted access to any of the conference venues.
Finalised Symposia and Plenary Speaker Programmes are already available on the conference website. A finalised Parallel Session Schedule will be published on the conference website by 26 September 2013.
It is hard to believe that in less than 3 weeks we will be welcoming you to the 6th MIM conference in sunny Durban. Final preparations for what promises to be a very exciting and enriching experience are being put in place. In this out final newsletter to you we bring you the latest conference updates and reminders. We wish you trouble free travel to South Africa and look forward to connecting with each of you during the conference.
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6th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Conference
6-11 October 2013
World’s Largest Gathering of Malaria Experts to Convene in Durban, South Africa
Scientists to present the latest groundbreaking research on preventing, controlling and eliminating killer disease; emerging resistance to drugs, insecticides, among agenda items
Arjen Dondorp trained as an infectious diseases and intensive care physician in the Netherlands. He is a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, U.K., and a visiting Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Prof Nick White trained in medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London. He is Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand and at Oxford University, UK, and is also Consultant Physician (Internal Medicine) at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and chairs the Wellcome Trust Tropical Medicine Research Programmes in South East Asia. He has lived and worked in Thailand since 1980.
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Dr Alan Magill MD is the Director, Malaria, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, USA. Dr. Magill is ABIM board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He has dual academic appointments as Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland.
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EVIMalaR Workshop: Woman and Science Breakfast Seminar
Location: Hilton Hotel, Durban, 7am - 8am in the Polo Club Room
Date: 9th October, 2013
EVIMalaR is proud to present the "Woman and Science Breakfast Seminar" - which will be held in association with the 6th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan African Conference.
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Dr Robert D. Newman is a pediatrician and Director of the Global Malaria Programme at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. As Country Coordinator of Health Alliance International in Mozambique in the late 1990s, he was astounded at the human toll of malaria in Africa. He has dedicated the last 15 years to combating the disease, first at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and since 2009, at WHO.
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Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré brings to the RBM Partnership a wealth of expertise in maternal and child health, malaria control and health systems strengthening, as well as significant leadership experience in facilitating global, regional and country-level partnerships.
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