MEASURE Evaluation at the ASTMH 63rd Annual Meeting

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting will take place November 2-6, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ASTMH Annual Meeting is the premier forum for scientific advances in tropical medicine and global health. 

MEASURE Evaluation's presence at the ASTMH Meeting will include:

• Investigating the potential circular effect of bed net ownership on under-five mortality risk in Uganda
  Cameron Taylor and Yazoume Ye
  November 3 at 12:00pm

• Worsening Socio-economic Disparities in ITN Ownership, Access and Use from 2006 to 2011 in Angola
  Ana Claudia Franca-Koh and Yazoume Ye
  November 4 at 12:00pm

• Increased Equity in Malaria Control Interventions in Malawi from 2000 to 2012
  Jui Shah, Ana Claudia Franca-Koh, Yazoume Ye, and Samantha Herrera 
  November 5 at 10:15am

• Improving socioeconomic equity in ITN access, ownership and use in Rwanda from 2000-2010
  Lia Florey, Ana Claudia Franca- Koh, Samantha Herrera, Jui Shah, and Yazoume Ye
  November 5 at 10:15am

• Reduction in Disparity of Insecticide-Treated Nets Ownership and Use among Socioeconomic Groups after Scale up in Uganda
  Cameron Taylor, Ana Claudia Franca- Koh, Samantha Herrera, Jui Shah, Lia Florey, and Yazoume Ye
   November 5 at 12:00pm

• Scaling up of ITN ownership and use in Mozambique: Has the scale-up been equitable?
  Yazoume Ye, Jui Shah, and Samantha Herrera 
  November 5 at 1:45pm

• Validation of Causes-of-death using Verbal Autopsy Data Collected from Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Ghana: 2007-2011
  Patrick O. Ansah, Cornelius Debpuur, James Akazili, Timothy Awine, John Williams, Nana Akosua Ansah, Yazoume Ye, Isaac Osei, Leopoldo Villegas, Osman Sankoh, Abraham Oduro
  November 6 at 8:45am 

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, founded in 1903, is a worldwide organization of scientists, clinicians and program professionals whose mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious and other diseases that disproportionately afflict the global poor.