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12 October 2017
The final steps in leprosy eradication in Myanmar?
Despite ongoing efforts to control leprosy in Myanmar, the last decade has seen little change in the incidence of disease.

26 September 2017
LASER are hiring: Research Assistant - Epidemiology and GIS
The London Applied and Spatial Epidemiology Research Group
15 September 2017
School-based malaria testing and treatment given the thumbs up by teachers and children
Primary school teachers are perceived as acceptable and trusted providers of malaria diagnosis and treatment for school-going children in Malawi.

8 September 2017
Myanmar’s integrated approach to mapping and controlling NTDs
Public health stakeholders from Myanmar are taking steps to improve the mapping and surveillance of leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and trachoma, LASER...
30 August 2017
LASER are hiring: Research Fellow - Epidemiologist
The London Applied and Spatial Epidemiology Research Group

7 July 2017
Free Training Materials - Improving NTD mapping by integrating case-management and disease data
Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Health recently hosted an innovative disease mapping training course to equip public health specialists with the skil

6 July 2017
LASER are hiring: Research Fellow - Spatial Epidemiology
The London Applied and Spatial Epidemiology Research Group

20 June 2017
LASER are hiring: Research Assistant - Epidemiology and GIS
The London Applied and Spatial Epidemiology Research Group
14 June 2017
New modelling approach to identifying Loa loa prevalence
A major challenge facing mass drug administration (MDA) programmes targeting the control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis or onchocerciasis

19 May 2017
Business Daily Africa focuses on Kenya's deworming efforts
Business Daily Africa's Sarah Ooko highlights the work of Kenya's Ministry of Health and LSHTM researchers to tackle neglected tropical diseases
12 May 2017
ESPEN’s NTD website goes live
The World Health Organisation’s Expanded Special Project for Elimina

24 March 2017
A complicated relationship – the effect of community sanitation usage on worm infections in Ethiopian children
Globally, in 2010, an estimated 1.5 billion people were infected with at least one species of soil-transmitted helminth (STH), Ascaris lumbrico

16 March 2017
International Workshop on Disease Mapping in Low-resource Settings: 14-15 Sept
LASER member and MRC Fellow

21 February 2017
TUMIKIA Baseline data presented at KASH 2017
The findings from 160,000 households surveyed for the TUMIKIA research were presented for the first time to the Kenya Medical Research Institute (K

14 February 2017
New research on how best to eliminate STH infections of Kenyan school children.
A new paper published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty has identified that whilst more frequent deworming reduces infection amongst school-aged...

3 February 2017
Are the drugs working? The need to monitor deworming efficacy
The World Health Organisation estimate that around 1.5

1 February 2017
TUMIKIA is hiring - Data and field officers wanted
We are recruiting data officers and field officers for an 11-week engagement working on the

9 January 2017
Research leadership award for LASER’s Dr Stella Kepha
LASER Research Fellow, Dr Stella Kepha has been awarded a prestigious THRiVE post-doctoral fellowship to support her work in exploring the use of m
21 October 2016
Mapping and Modelling at COR-NTD 2016
A special interactive break-out session on how mapping and modelling approaches are helping with neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) research and pr

6 October 2016
How innovations in statistical approaches are helping to eliminate elephantiasis
Dr Emanuele Giorgi describes how a new approach for developing predictive models to diagnosis and map lymphatic filariasis is

30 August 2016
Training on Modern Tools for NTD Control Programmes
An internationally renowned short-course designed to provide programme managers and researchers with the practical and technical skills they need t
12 August 2016
Join webinar discussion on importance of NTD Mapping
Join GAHI's Dr Rachel Pullan for a special webinar entitled '

28 June 2016
Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases
During the recent World Health Forum in Geneva the World Health Organizat