EuroSciCon are delighted to be holding the following CPD accredited meeting:

The Global Public Health implications of Tropical Diseases Research

on Friday, May 22, 2009 

The BioPark, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.

The Chair, Professor P.K. Das, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands says, "Although there is a rush of technological advancement in the tropical countries, by accepting the super technological approach in handling diseases like cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, diabetes, rare neurological disease etc, the most commonly encountered diseases in the tropical countries, such as infectious diseases (leprosy, drug resistant tuberculosis, leishmaniasis,malaria filariais as well as common cancers like oral cancer and immunodeficiency vs malnutrition) are not getting enough attention.  This meeting will explore the new technological advances and research currently being undertaken to irradicate these neglected diseases and discuss the greater implications these will have to global public health".

Talks include:

Diagnostics of Leprosy - Dr. Annemieke Geluk, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Correlates of protection in co-infections - Dr.  Roberto Nisini, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy

Global Health in the Tropics. Barriers and perspectives - Prof Francesco Castelli, University of Brescia, Italy

To book a place, please visit www.regonline.co.uk/tropical09 .