Thursday, September 4th 2008
As part of its corporate social responsibility, Oxitec has joined hands with some of the leading academic institutions of the world to start a series of symposia addressing the burden of neglected diseases including dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever — the fastest growing neglected disease of the world that has put 55% of the world’s population at risk according to the World Health Organization and the International Vaccine Institute.
Symposia convenor and Oxitec’s Head of Public Health S.S. Vasan said: “It is our hope that such focused symposia hosted around the world will, between them, help address the current or recent global burden of neglected diseases.” Proceedings will be made available on the Internet by the conveners to develop the ‘body of knowledge’ on this subject.
The inaugural symposium, co-convened by Dileep V. Mavalankar, will be hosted by the Centre for Management of Health Services at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad on 10 September 2008 at 1400-1900 hours (Indian Standard Time).
Useful links:
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/seminar.htm
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/1st%20Symposium%20on%20the%20Burden%20of%20Neglected%20Diseases.pdf
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/faculty/centers_health.htm
http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/en/
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