The first meeting of the newly formed Chagas Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) recently took place to shape the key aims and objectives of the Chagas disease data sharing platform. The platform was recently launched by the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) in collaboration with the Drugs...

A new study suggests that there are important but neglected issues with falsified and substandard medicines used to treat diabetes and that “no country is immune”.

We hope you enjoyed this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH 2019, as much as we did.

Are you going to this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) 16-20 September at the ACC in Liverpool, or the NNN Conference 17-19 September?

The British Society of Parasitology’s (BSP) three-day Spring Meeting is one of the biggest events in the society’s calendar and takes place at the University of Edinburgh from 15–17 April 2020. A strong malaria theme will run through the next meeting and IDDO is delighted to announce it will be open...

IDDO has launched a new global Chagas scientific collaboration with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). The new platform will collate and standardise data to accelerate better treatments for the 6–7 million people worldwide with Chagas disease.

An IDDO/WWARN study has found that primaquine is not associated with increased levels of anaemia following treatment of patients without G6PD deficiency for P. vivax malaria and should be used as part of a radical cure. In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers carried out a systematic r...

Teams from IDDO and WWARN are excited to once again be taking part in the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH.

There’s still time to apply for a National Institute for Health Research, NIHR, Global Health Policy and Systems Research Development Award.

IDDO's WWARN hosted a successful workshop in West Africa aimed at improving researchers’ skills. The aim of the workshops was two-fold; to train researchers in best practice of designing, conducting, analysing and reporting antimalarial drug clinical trials, and also to build expertise within the...

New research published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases has found that a longer follow-up is required to assess antimalarial drug efficacy in pregnant women. This was found across all drugs assessed in low malaria transmission settings. The report’s authors have called for guidelines specifically f...

IDDO’s visceral leishmaniasis (VL) collaboration is working on two new projects looking at the treatment of VL.

IDDO Researchers presented at the European CDISC Interchange held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from May 6 to 7, 2019.

A letter signed by IDDO, members of the Chagas Platform and the Chagas Global Coalition calling on governments, organisations and donors to intensify efforts to control and eliminate Chagas has been presented to the World Health Organization (WHO).

IDDO and WWARN's Clinical Scientific Group have published research in BMC Medical Research Methodology comparing different statistical approaches for deriving cumulative estimates of drug efficacy from clinical studies. Results indicate that the Cumulative Incidence Function (CIF) approach should be...

The Ebola Data Platform, a pioneering collaboration in Ebola and emerging infections, has today appointed nine members for its first Data Access Committee (DAC), overseen and chaired by TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, hosted at WHO.

IDDO has published a Draft Research Agenda for open review on visceral leishmaniasis (VL) for feedback and comments from the wider VL research community. The deadline for comments is 5 July 2019.

Professor Joel Tarning, Head of Clinical Pharmacology at MORU, and Head WWARN’s Pharmacometrics Group will present highlights on population PK/PD modelling to assess the dosing of antimalarial drugs in vulnerable groups. Dr Makoto Saito will share highlights from his research on antimalarial treatme...

Research collaboration maps close to 10,000 samples on molecular markers surveyor, in near real-time.

IDDO's Director Philippe Guerin and colleagues have recently published a framework for the reporting and interpretation of clinical microbiology data in BMC Medicine. Read the research.