April 27th 2022

Webinar: Community-based COVID-19 Testing in Lesotho and Zambia

Visual: SolidarMed & Swiss TPH

 

Description:  The BRCCH cordially invites you to join us online for a webinar looking at Community-based COVID-19 testing in Lesotho and Zambia. This event will highlight research progress of the collaborative project between Dr Kwame Shanaube (Zambart) and Dr Klaus Reither (Swiss TPH) on the effects of community-led interventions in mitigating the COVID-19 epidemics in Lesotho and Zambia. The BRCCH and the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) partnered on a joint initiative to support multi-national collaborations for research to mitigate COVID-19, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

When: Wednesday, April 27th, 2022 from 15:30-17:00 CET

Where: Online, Zoom seminar

Registration: HERE

Schedule:

      • Welcome by BRCCH Director Prof Georg Holländer
      • Keynote lecture by Dr Kwame Shanaube (Zambart), Dr Klaus Reither (Swiss TPH) & their research teams:
              1. Overview of the joint BRCCH-EDCTP project: Improving Access to SARS-CoV-2 Screening and Testing through Community-based COVID-19 Case-Finding and the Use of Digital Solutions in Lesotho and Zambia
              2. Comparing different approaches of community-based SARS-CoV-2 testing in Lesotho and Zambia
              3. Barriers and facilitators to SARS-CoV-2 testing at community-based testing sites
              4. Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 tests and testing approaches
      • Plenary discussion
      • Closing

Keynote Speakers:

 

 

Dr Kwame Shanaube

Zambart & School of Public Health, University of Zambia

Dr Kwame Shanaube is Deputy Director of Research (Quantitative) at Zambart, a multidisciplinary research organisation that conducts a range of studies including clinical trials, epidemiological studies and laboratory-based diagnostic studies. She is a clinician with a Master’s degree in public health and a PhD in TB clinical epidemiology. She is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Zambia School of Public Health. Her research interests cover a wide range of disciplines, including TB/HIV epidemiology, community-based cluster randomised trials, operational research through evaluation of field diagnostics and adolescent health. She is also the country’s Principal Investigator for a large international TB consortium (the TREATS Project) and the overall Principal Investigator for the TREATS-COVID study, both funded by the EDCTP.

 

Dr Klaus Reither

Clinical Research Unit, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Dr Klaus Reither is Head of the Clinical Research Unit and the leader of the Clinical TB Research Group at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). He oversees and coordinates clinical research projects conducted by Swiss TPH and his research responsibilities comprise the set-up, implementation, coordination and supervision of clinical research projects, with an emphasis on TB clinical trials at Swiss TPH’s international partner organisations such as the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania, the National Centre of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Georgia and SolidarMed in Lesotho.

Dr Reither is Lead Investigator of the BRCCH COVID-19 project: MistraL - Mitigation Strategies for Communities with COVID-19 Transmission in Lesotho Using Artificial Intelligence on Chest X-rays and Novel Rapid Diagnostic Tests. Together with Dr Kwame Shanaube, he also co-leads a BRCCH-EDCTP collaborative project on Improving Access to SARS-CoV-2 Screening and Testing through Community-based COVID-19 Case-Finding and the Use of Digital Solutions in Lesotho and Zambia.

 

 

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