ASTMH GOTropMEd

This 2023 Annual Meeting session focused on understanding the policymaking ecosystem in Washington, DC. Topics included how Congress really works, how a bill becomes a law, the White House and federal agency's roles in policymaking, the ever-present power struggles, and most common breakdowns in the process.

• Professional Development
• Other
• Tropical Medicine Advocacy

From the 2023 Annual Meeting: Drawing on the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox and rinderpest, and ongoing efforts to eradicate Polio and Guinea worm disease, this symposium will highlight the approaches taken to eradicate Smallpox and Rinderpest, with discourse describing the contribution of eradication and holistic approaches (e.g., One Health) to disease eradication.

• Global Health
• Integrated Control Measures for Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Planetary Health & One Health
• Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Zoonosis
• Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Environmental Health

Highlighting a case of Burkholderia pseudomallei in a migrant pediatric patient in Mexico, along with updates on diagnosis and treatment.

Why Is Malaria on the Move and to What Extent Is Climate Change a Factor?, a forum presented on World Malaria Day, April 25, 2024.

• Malaria
• Global Health

Clinical Group webinar from October 16, 2024, discussing the re-emergence of the arthropod-borne virus Oropouche.

• Clinical Tropical Medicine