General information
Session 1 - Updates from vector control community
Justin McBeath, Corine Ngufor - Welcome
Marion Law - Updates from WHO Prequalification Team, Vector Control Product Assessment
Kate Kolaczinski Htin Kyaw Thu - The Global Fund’s support to vector control
Seth Irish - Vector Control updates from the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative
Leo Braack - The role of the APLMA/APMEN Vector Control Working Group in Asia-Pacific
Session 2 - Charting the course for the VCWG work streams
Mary Kante, Allan Were - Designing the vision for the Enhancing the Impact of Core Interventions workstream: key updates, data, and opportunities to provide inputs for the annual meeting and task team planning
Sheila Ogoma, Allison Tatarsky - Expanding the Vector Control Toolbox work stream updates, launch of two new task teams on human behavior and LSM, and dialogue on new vector control paradigms
Chadwick Sikaala, Mark Hoppé - Supporting the Global Vector Control Response, (GVCR) workstream: Key updates, formation of task teams on IVM, Capacity Strengthening And Anopheles stephensi threat, timelines for workplan development for task teams and inputs into annual meeting
Mary Kante, Allan Were - Break-out group 1: Enhancing the impact of core interventions (WS1)
Sheila Ogoma, Allison Tatarsky - Break-out group 2: Expanding the vector control toolbox (WS2)
Chadwick Sikaala, Mark Hoppé - Break-out group 3: Implementing the Global Vector Control Response (WS3)
Session 3 - Work stream 1: Enhancing the impact of core interventions
Session 1: Using data for the optimal selection of IRS and ITNs - National Malaria Program and donor experience and considerations
Facilitator: Sarah Burnett, Julia Mwesigwa, Christine Fornadel
Kate Kolaczinski, Htin Kyaw Thu, Global Fund
Session 2: Technical updates Teams 1 & 2: Using data to inform optimal selection and deployment of Core Interventions and Addressing biological threats
Facilitator: Sarah Burnett, Julia Mwesigwa, Christine Fornadel
Roger Tine, UCAD, PMI Insights
Session 3: Technical updates Teams 3 & 4: Capacity building, localization, and private sector involvement for sustainable vector control and Addressing non-biological threats
Samuel Asiedu, AGAMal & Chouaibou Mouhamadou, PSI
Edward Thomsen, I2I & Amanda McCoy, LSTM
Session 4 - Work stream 2: Expanding the vector control toolbox
Sheila Ogoma, Allison Tatarsky - Introduction, scene setting, survey results
Theme: Larval source management
Jen Armistead, Prosper Chaki - LSM task team updates
Beena Bhamani - MESA Alliance LSM landscaping
Saraha Rabeherisoa - Madagascar LSM project
Lenson Kariuki - Community-based LSM, Kenya
Denis Kailembo - Community-based LSM, Tanzania
Theme: Human behavior, human centered design (HCD), and vector control
April Monroe - Human behavior task team updates
Ashley Riley - Updates on HCD workshops
Prisca Oria - Incorporating human behavior in vector control research: AEGIS project
Lina Finda - African conversations about gene drive for malaria elimination
Theme: Research updates on innovative vector control
David McIver - Updates on Project BITE to evaluate new bite prevention tools in the Asia Pacific
Session 5 - Work stream 3: Implementing the Global Vector Control Response
Mark Hoppé - Welcome and introduction
Leo Braack - An introduction to ORENE
Frederik Seelig - Updates from the Global Vector Hub
Justin McBeath - Feedback from the VCWG’s An. stephensi meetings, and proposed response
Nana Aba Williams / Helen Nwanosike - MESA – An. stephensi ‘deep dive’