5^th International Conference on Neglected Tropical & Infectious Diseases August 29-30, 2018 Boston, MA, USA

French/Slovak active medical professional specialised in infectious diseases, internal medicine covering various therapeutic axes, certified in Immunology and Pediatric, MBA in vaccinology Lived multi-country medical “field “experience in Southeast Asia, West/Central/East Europe and Middle East. Speaking French, English, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Slovak with notion of Mandarin. Over 15 years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development for European and USA companies as Medical lead /Director of R&D in various therapeutic areas and as Scientific and Medical independent consultant for various academic and private stakeholders globally. Active member of French immunology society (SFI) administrative board and several international academic societies with focus on R&D innovation and partnership highlighting role immunology/immune-metabolism and genetics for innovative treatment, prevention and diagnostic. Member of advisory Health concern (India) and think tank group in order to attract attention to role of accessible medical care, education and awareness along with accurate diagnostic and innovative partnership in this area. Years of expertise to work globally but recently more focused on BRICS as Medical advisor for scientific partnership, bringing new innovative concepts alive and getting them endorsed.

Immunology

Simo Gustave received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon. He is a Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Cameroon. He served as a Visiting Scientist at Bay Paul Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Simo was Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Division of Functional Genome analysis of DKFZ, Heidelberg. He conducted studies on the animal reservoir of T.b. gambiense, characterization of trypanosomes, transcriptomics of T. brucei. He is collaborating with UMR177 (France), IMT (Belgium), DKFZ and ZMBH (Germany), IRET (Gabon), CIRDES (Burkina Faso), INRB and University of Kinshasa (DRC). His research involves field studies and basic research. His current ongoing projects are focused on the genetic of tsetse and trypanosomes, drug resistance in trypanosome, miRNA expression and human susceptibility to trypanosome infections.

drug resistance, miRNA expression and human susceptibility to trypanosome infections.

1990. Doctor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Messina, Italy. 1991-94. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Department of Pathology and Darwin College, University of Cambridge. 2017. Doctor of Science (ScD), University of Cambridge. My current research develops and applies multidisciplinary approaches to unravel the links between in vivo pathogen behaviour (location, division, death, gene regulation and spread), immunity, immunoevasion and the efficacy of vaccines and antibiotics. We are currently extending our research to clinical setting to understand immunological risk factors that increase susceptibility to invasive bacterial infections; this will support the development and evaluation of vaccines for African children.

Bacterial pathogenesis and immunology, Vaccine Development, Antibiotics

D.V.M., M.Sc., Ph.D. Assistant Professor at IPV-ESAV | Coordinator of VETNNET | Board member of ACOVENE

Public Health and Health Services,Medical Microbiology,Veterinary Virology and Veterinary Sciences.

I am an inquisitive and creative research scientist passionate about developing solutions to medical and biotechnology problems. I have had the opportunity of working with world-distinguished scientists in the fields of microbiology, parasitology, inflammation, innate and adaptive immunity, vaccinology, and development of in vitro diagnostic devices. Over my professional career spanning 25 years I have worked with several experimental models of arthropod-borne diseases leading to the publication of several peer-reviewed articles and patents. I am privileged of having had the opportunity to share this experience with young colleagues and students. I strongly believe that identification of flaws in paradigmatic knowledge is the first step towards the development of solutions to complex biological problems.

Medicine, Immunology,arthropod-borne diseases

Assistant Professor and Assistant Scientific Director, Experimental Pathology Core; Department of Pathology of University of Texas Medical Branch. Eleven years’ research experience involving experimental tomographic-pathologic studies of microvascular diseases with emphasis on mechanisms of integrity of endothelial junctions and extracellular matrices, as well as past research experience with cardiovascular diseases.

Post-transcriptional or translational regulation strategies to protect endothelial cells during infection with intracellular pathogens, most notably Rickettsia spp.

Junie Lia Monica is an MD, Ph D, Professor, Head Microbiology Department, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca, Romania. She is a Coordinator of resident doctor’s in the Laboratory Medicine specialty and Leadership PhD doctor’s thesis in Medicine field. She is a Board Member of European professional Societies ESCMID (ESGCP Study Groups), Society of Chemotherapy, Scientia Parasitologica Pro Vita and is a Reviewer of international reviews, Member of International organizations, Director/Coordinator in research projects. She has more than 63 papers published in full in international journals and is an editorial board member of national reviews. She is an Organizer/President, Keynote, Invited Speaker and Chair of International and National Congresses.

Microbiology

Dr Benjamin Koudou has over 16 years’ experience as a researcher malaria and filariasis control specialist and, a laboratory scientist and researcher working in the fields of neglected tropical disease (NTD) control in Africa, particularly focusing on elimination of preventive chemotherapy diseases (lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, Schistosomiasis, STH) through mass drug administration. From April 2012 to August 2016, Benjamin support lymphatic filariasis elimination programmes in West African countries. Benjamin is also highly experienced in capacity development and in establishing quality management system for laboratories. Currently, Dr Koudou was primary and secondary supervisor of 7 PhD students who defended successfully from 2012 to 2017 at University of Liverpool and Basel University in Switzerland. Additionally, Benjamin was invited as several international conferences as invited key note speakers and published close to 60 papers in peer reviewed international journals. Dr Koudou was Principal Investigator of several research projects focused on including randomized controlled trials targeting lymphatic filariasis.

neglected tropical diseases such as filarasis diseases (lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis) including malaria

Dr. El Maghraby is a senior expert in Global Health Care Systems and Services Development with over 30 years of experience in health sector analysis, organizational, structural and policy reforms for strengthening, and scaling up health sector performance. His experience entails health system reconstruction, human resources planning and capacity building, evidence based policy development, strategic planning towards universal health coverage, and leading programs’ design, implementation and monitoring. His mandate also entailed providing strategic guidance to Governments and Global Institutions. He has a solid track record in health sector reform, managing technical assistance, Public Private Partnerships and maternal, newborn and child health in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He has just concluded an assignment leading WHO health systems reconstruction programme in Libya – based in Tunis – with a multidisciplinary team of experts managing an WHO’s support to the Libyan health sector during the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis. He worked in most of the Arab countries, east, north and southern Africa, and many countries Asia. He was elected as Africa’s Coordinator of the HRH Communities of Practice and jointly plans and drives regional policies, strategies, research, and organizes and chairs health centred conferences in the region. In Iraq, he was instrumental in developing the National Health Policy and National Nursing Strategy while taking strategic steps towards a greater functionality of the National Council of Accreditation of Medical Colleges to improve quality of health professionals nationwide. He worked hand in hand with the Ministry of Health for building capacity of the Ministry and Directorates in the Governorates. Special attention was given to the Human Resources Department and Planning Directorate together with scaling up the Family Health Model as well as strengthening hospital management capacity under exceptional conflict and fiscal crises. A couple of years ago, he provided support to Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health in developing and implementing the health sector decentralization strategy and strengthening provincial capacity and systems performance. Until recently he had been the Chief Health Analyst in the African Development Bank in Tunisia with the mandate of providing health systems strengthening and human resources technical and operational leadership for the African Region. In particular he has extensive experience in North, East and Southern Africa; particularly in Egypt, Tunisia, Soudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Senegal and others. He has been the Team Leader in many projects in low and middle-income countries. He effectively managed senior multi-disciplinary experts on short and long term contracts including professors of world class universities, health economists, financial analysts, procurement experts, environment conservation experts and legal experts, and other cadres. Previously he was the Program Coordinator of a Joint UN Maternal and Neonatal Health Project in Bangladesh. He strategized, harmonised, coordinated and led the planning, implementation and monitoring of the Joint-UN MNH Project (UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA) that aimed at reducing Maternal and Neonatal mortality and morbidity in selected districts in Bangladesh. The project was unique in many ways, successful in attaining planned deliverables and was part of the UN Reform agenda. Working in South Asia he exchanged experiences and lessons learned with Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. In Yemen he finalized a Reproductive Health Project financed by the EC. He also was the Health and HIV/AIDS Advisor for Save the Children UK in South Sudan Program (based in Kenya and S. Sudan) with the responsibility of developing SCUK’s health strategy, provision of policy development and capacity building for the Ministry of Health. In Health Sector Reform Program in Egypt he was instrumental in HSRP’s institutional development and Human Resource Capacity Building. The reform program was innovative and centred around an insurance based family health PHC-model where the financing, service provision and sector regulatory functions are strengthened. Dr El Maghraby is a strong believer in the role of human capital and knowledge resource in health systems. He was the Leadership Development Program Director and the Manager of the Flagship Program for Health Reform and Sustainable Financing. The latter is a world class capacity building program for senior policy and decision makers in health sector development in partnership with the World Bank Institute. On short-term missions Dr El Maghraby worked for the European Commission (EC) in Afghanistan to help the Ministry of Health formulate its decentralization strategy and strengthen provincial health systems. Also in Yemen he was the Health Policy and Planning Advisor to finalize a Reproductive Health Project. In Syria he was among a small team to assess, monitor and advise the Health Sector Modernisation Program. Also he worked for the World Health Organization in Yemen, Iran and Oman to assess, analyse and advise on the Ministries of Health's management and leadership capacity and health system strengthening in those countries. He also has strong experience in health macroeconomics and financing models including social health insurance. Dr El Maghraby is a Medical Doctor with MSc Pt1 in Paediatrics from Cairo University and a Master in Health Management, Planning and Policy from the University of Leeds, UK.

Health Systems Strengthening, Public Health, Newborn and Child Health, Health Sector Reform