Apply to be a MESA Correspondent to report from the ICTMM 2024 Conference
Are you interested in malaria research? Would you like to improve your writing skills? Would you like to attend the International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (ICTMM) Conference for free? Here is your opportunity: Participate in the MESA Correspondents program to report from the International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (ICTMM) Conference!
What do you have to do?
MESA is looking for Correspondents to attend and report from the ICTMM 2024 Conference to be held in person in Kuching, Malaysia, from September 19 – 23, 2024.
With the help of some guidelines shared in advance, the MESA Correspondents summarize the presentations and discussions of selected malaria talks in the form of daily summaries and a final report. The summaries and reports are reviewed by senior malaria editors and later published and disseminated via MESA’s channels.
Previous examples include:
- 8th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference
- Molecular Approaches to Malaria (MAM) Conference – 2024
- 9th PAMCA Annual Conference and Exhibition
What will you get?
- Free registration to the ICTMM 2024 Conference, which will take place on September 19 – 23, 2024 in Malaysia.
- Certificate of participation in the MESA Correspondents program.
- Priority when offering new opportunities to collaborate with MESA.
- Visibility. The reports are disseminated through multiple channels: MESA website, social media, MESA newsletter and Malaria World newsletter, among others.
- Enhancement of your writing skills and improvement of your CV.
How to apply?
The application to become a MESA Correspondent for the conference consists of submitting:
- Curriculum vitae
- Motivation statement (100-word limit) indicating which areas of malaria you have knowledge of and why you want to be part of the program.
- Synopsis of one of these videos (200-word limit)
- Investigating the magnitude and drivers of residual malaria transmission in Zanzibar. Speaker: Khamis Haji, Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program, Tanzania, link
- Protective efficacy of a spatial repellent against malaria infections in children: recent evidence from a clinical trial in Indonesia. Speaker: Din Syafruddin, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Indonesia, link
- Tracking the local and regional spread of Plasmodium falciparum in low transmission settings of Africa. Speaker: Bryan Greenhouse, University of California, San Francisco, USA, link
- Reactive case detection with targeted mass drug administration: Interrupting malaria transmission and achieving elimination beyond intervention areas in northwestern Peru. Speaker: Antonio Quispe, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, link
The opportunity to be a correspondent is open to everyone. Researchers, malaria professionals, or students from South East Asia are highly encouraged to apply. Please send applications to mesa@isglobal.org no later than July 5, 2024.
Selected MESA Correspondents will be helped to defray the costs of meeting registration, flights and accommodation. However, meals, ground transportation during the course of the conference will not be covered, and no per diems. MESA Correspondents will be chosen by the MESA team based on the quality of the applications. Thanks for your interest.
