Title : Analysis of some societal factors constraining COVID-19, dengue, malaria and tick-borne borreliosis control

Abstract:

The benefits conferred by recent scientific discoveries, e.g. new chemotherapeutics, monoclonal antibodies for diagnosis and treatment, recombinant protein antigens for diagnosis, and vaccines for infectious diseases like COVID-19, dengue and malaria, are widely appreciated. However, some societal factors that limit the application of new scientific advances for improving the control of COVID-19, dengue, malaria and tick-borne borreliosis are less well understood. This article separately analyses specific societal constraints in each of these four diseases with the objective of broadening understanding and promoting the development of appropriate measures to mitigate the constraints.

Audience Take Away:

• Better understand relevance of recent scientific advances for controlling important infectious diseases.
• Participants will usefully consider the relevance to their own local context.
• The knowledge will be valuable for teaching and research into infectious diseases, vaccines and vector control.
• Knowledge gained can be applied directly to better control infectious diseases in a public health context.
• Stimulate innovative thinking in infectious diseases control.

Biography:

Ranjan Ramasamy graduated in 1971 and then a PhD in 1974 from the University of Cambridge, UK. He was the Chairman of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, Professor of Life Sciences at the Institute of Fundamental Studies in Kandy in Sri Lanka, Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Jaffna in Jaffna Sri Lanka, Professor of Immunology in the University Brunei Darussalam Medical School and held institute appointments at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK and Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, USA. He has more than 280 publications.