A multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural training workshop
Camerino, Italy, 26-31 July 2010
coordinator: Annette Habluetzel

This training event is targeted to doctoral candidates (whatever their disciplinary background), who already work on malaria, or who plan to be involved – from various perspectives and with different approaches – in research and control of poverty-related diseases in their future.

The workshop is organized in the frame of the PhD Programme on Malaria and Human Development supported by WHO, Global Malaria Programme, the University of Camerino and the Italian Malaria Network.

Participants will have the opportunity to get updated on the major, recent achievements in malaria immunology and on the most promising vaccine candidates that are currently in the pipeline - at discovery stage or undergoing clinical evaluation. They will have the occasion to get acquainted with traditional approaches to stimulate immunity (such as plant remedies) and will be provided with insights into the complexity of vaccination in countries where malnutrition and co-infection with a multiplicity of agents are of common occurrence, and thus may hamper the development of fully functional immunity.

What kind of vaccine do we need? This is the leading question of the training event.

With a multidisciplinary approach, answers and view points will be discussed from the perspective of biologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, socio-economists and health policy makers. For more detailed information, please look at the draft workshop programme.

The workshop - structured in plenary lectures, working group sessions and round table discussions – can rely upon the expertise of lecturers and facilitators from research and control institutions of different malaria endemic countries, from TDR, the Italian Malaria Network and other institutions focusing on malaria research and control.

If your are interested to participate at the training event (26-31 July) send us your workshop application request before May 24th, a maximum of 40 applications can be accepted.

During a 2 weeks period preceding (12-23 July) and the week following (2-6 August.) the workshop, additional training can be offered to a limited number of participants (15). More detailed information is available on the application form for the comprehensive training.

Thanks to the support of TDR-Capacity strengthening, scholarships can be offered for the 'comprehensive training' to 2 participants from malaria endemic countries covering travel expenses, accommodation and registration fee.

Finally, we warmly invite you to browse the web-site reports of the 2 preceding workshops, conducted in 2008 on drugs and remedies and in 2009 on vector control.

For any further information do not hesitate to contact: annette.habluetzel@unicam.it

Source: http://malwks.unicam.it/vaccines2010/