Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that it will present its second malaria conference, ‘Challenges in Malaria Research: Progress towards elimination' at the University of Basel, Switzerland from October 10-12, 2012. The publisher will present the conference in conjunction with its journals Malaria Journal and Parasites and Vectors.
With steps being made towards better control of malaria, this conference focuses on the eventual goal of eradication. Although malaria elimination is currently a possibility in some regions, worldwide elimination is a much bigger challenge that will require further research and progress in many areas relevant to the transmission of the disease. Each of the 10 conference sessions will deal with different aspects of research for elimination with the aim of bringing different disciplines together to generate new tools and strategies for fighting malaria.
Keynote speakers include Pedro Alonso, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Spain; Simon Hay, University of Oxford, UK; Robert Newman, Global Malaria Programme WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Nicholas J. White, University of Oxford, UK & Mahidol University, Thailand; and Teun Bousema, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.
Registration for the conference is currently open. Details of the conference, provisional programme, and how to register can be found on the conference website at http://www.challenges-in-malaria-research.com/. Delegates are welcome to submit abstracts to be included within the programme.
