About this event:
iCHORDS will be hosting a Knowledge Exchange Café on Thursday, April 20th, 10:00-11:00 am (EST).
This presentation describes an implementation science study embedded within the DeWorm3 Project, a hybrid clinical trial in Benin, India, & Malawi testing the feasibility of STH transmission interruption via community-wide MDA compared to school-based MDA. In this study, we utilized social network analysis (SNA) to systematically identify the most influential stakeholders within school-based and community-wide MDA networks and define how network dynamics may impact implementation and scale-up across these delivery platforms.
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Speaker:
Dr. Marie-Claire Gwayi-Chore is as a global health specialist and implementation scientist who has spent the last decade delivering and evaluating school- and community-based interventions targeting neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in various low- and middle-income countries across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She has directly supported programs that have reached hundreds of millions of vulnerable people globally. She currently serves as an NTD Project Lead in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, supporting the Kikundi Community of Practice, which provides technical and professional development support for African NTD Program Managers. She is passionate about promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), antiracism, and anticolonialism within global health education, research, practice & mentorship and is an emerging expert bringing an implementation science lens to the practice of decolonizing global health.
About Knowledge Exchange Café:
The Knowledge Exchange Café is a monthly event which will bring together individuals to network and learn from one another’s research and experience. The emphasis in these discussions will be on the social and behavioural sciences as they relate to Neglected Tropical Diseases and how they help reach the WHO 2030 NTD Roadmap goals. Each Knowledge Exchange Café will include time for networking and conversation to facilitate interaction amongst attendees.
About iCHORDS:
iCHORDS (Improving Community Health Outcomes through Research, Dialogue and Systems Strengthening) Community of Practice is a platform for communication, collaboration and knowledge exchange within social and behavioural science research disciplines to address implementation gaps and current issues facing Neglected Tropical Disease programs.
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