About this Event
This year's event will take place in person on Wednesday 15th May 2023 from 3-9 pm.
Join the UCL dPHE Centre to celebrate it's 6th anniversary, its annual conference and interdisciplinary workshop.
Vector-borne tropical diseases (such as zika, chikungunya and dengue) - transmitted by mosquito aedes aegypti - are endemic in Northeast Brazil, where the devastating zika outbreak took place in 2015, and across all tropical parts of Brazil and Latin America. In Europe, in the island of Madeira, an unexpected deadly outbreak of dengue fever occurred in 2012. Surveillance of the vectors - aiming to destroy the mosquitoes ideally in a larvae stage - is mostly manual, paper driven and a poorly funded operation of government environmental agencies causing needless human loss through inadequate public health response. Vector-borne diseases are highly climate sensitive - as global warming is contributing to changing habitat of mosquitoes, vector-borne tropical disease will become endemic in new parts of the world.
At this year's interdisciplinary workshop, the MEWAR project (2019-2024), will be the focus. Its results will be presented by the MEWAR project team from Brazil, Turkey and Madeira, and the team will be joined by UCL researchers, and external international stakeholders to discuss the challenges and opportunities for combating vector- borne disease through Digital One Health.
We welcome researchers UCL-based and external, international stakeholders to discuss the challenges and opportunities for combating vector- borne disease through Digital One Health.
Confirmed speakers:
Professor Patty Kostkova (dPHE director, UCL IRDR)
Professor Kate Jones (dPHE, UCL & People and Nature Lab)
Dr. Luiza Cintra Campos (Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, UCL)
Professor Tércio Ambrizzi (Director of the Institute of Energy and Environment - IEE, University of São Paulo)
Professor Tiago Massoni (Department Systems & Computing, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil)
Dr. Pedro Campos (Computer Engineering Department of the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering, University of Madeira)
Aisha Aldosery (dPHE, UCL IRDR)
Lan Li (dPHE, UCL IRDR)
Professor Patty Kostkova (dPHE director, UCL IRDR)
Patty is Professor in Digital Health and the Director of UCL Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies (dPHE). She was a consultant at WHO, ECDC, Sky, Telefonica. Her research investigates mobile surveillance in Brazil, maternal health in Nepal and antibiotic stewardship in Nigeria and the NHS. During COVID-19, she lead an award winning project My Lockdown Journal. In 2019 and 2020, Patty won the 'Innovator of the Year' Award by Computing Women in IT Excellence Awards and the prestigious Coronaprofile by Business Science, while her team won the Team of the Year 2020 Award by Computing Rising Stars Awards. Patty published over 230 peer-reviewed papers, and is the Editor in chief of Frontiers in Digital Public Health, and General and Scientific Chair of International Public Health Conference since 2009.
Professor Kate Jones - Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, and Director of the UCL East People and Nature Lab at UCL’s new cross-disciplinary campus in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Kate has held appointments at the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, University of Virginia, Imperial College London, and is an honorary fellow at the Zoological Society of London. She has written over 150 articles and book chapters in prestigious journals, is a UK government scientific advisor, chaired The Bat Conservation Trust for 5 years, and served as an expert advisor to the UK’s Climate Change Committee. Kate won the Leverhulme Prize for outstanding contributions to Zoology in 2008, and in 2022 won both ZSL’s Marsh Award for Conservation Biology and British Ecology Society’s Marsh Award for Ecology.
Dr. Luiza Cintra Campos: Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, UCL
Luiza Campos is a civil engineer with a PhD from Imperial College, UK, and an MSc in Water and Sanitation from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to relocating to the UK, she accumulated 10 years of experience working for the state water and sanitation company of Goias and another 10 years as a lecturer at the Federal University of Goias in Brazil. Currently, she holds the position of Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering at UCL, where she has been employed since 2007. During her tenure at UCL, Luiza has held various roles including Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (2009-2013), Director for the Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Programme (2010-2014), Departmental Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer (2015-2018), and led the Athena Swan application resulting in the Department being awarded a Bronze Award for advancing gender equality practice in 2016. Presently, she serves as the head of the UCL Water Research Group, Director for the UCL MSc Engineering for International Development, Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience, Co-Chair of the South East and London Water Alliance, and Chair of the IWA Specialist Group in Sanitation and Water Management in Developing Countries. In recognition of her contributions, Luiza was honoured with the Gold Medal awarded by the Institute of Civil Engineers for engineering excellence in 2023. Her research focuses on water and sanitation systems, with particular interest in (1) advancing developments in water treatment technologies; (2) exploring interlinkages in the water nexus; and (3) promoting improvements in sanitation, hygiene, and health.
Professor Tércio Ambrizzi, Director of the Institute of Energy and Environment - IEE, University of São Paulo.
Tércio Ambrizzi, Full Professor at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. He is coordinator of INCLINE (INter-disciplinary CLimate INvestigation cEnter) USP's Center for Research on Climate Change. Titular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Works in the area of Atmospheric Sciences, with emphasis on Dynamic Meteorology, Numerical Modeling and Climate Change. He has published hundreds of articles in specialized journals, several book chapters and supervised many Ph.D., MSc. and Pos-Doc students. Nowadays he is the Director of the Institute of Energy and Environment, USP.
Professor Tiago Massoni: Department Systems & Computing, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil
Tiago Massoni is an associate professor at the Federal University of Campina Grande, Northeast of Brazil. His main research interest is software engineering, in special software architecture and verification, and its applications, including health care, having advised more than 30 graduate students. He currently is the head of Telmo Araujo Technological Innovation Center, which encompasses more than 40 R&D partnerships between the university and companies. He has been cooperating with research with vector-bourne diseases for at least 7 years, engaging in IT-based solutions to support the research activities.
Dr. Pedro Campos: Computer Engineering Department of the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering, University of Madeira
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
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