CTM 2024

Conference on Tropical Medicine
and Global Health
19 - 21 September 2024, Düsseldorf

Conference Opening & Plenary Sessions

Opening and Welcome

19 September 2024, Thursday, 11.45 – 13.00h
Torsten Feldt, Düsseldorf – Conference Chair
Andreas Neumayr, Basel Conference Chair SSTTM
Svenja Caspers – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Gerald Mboowa – Africa CDC

Keynote speech

The value of international cooperations
Dereje Duguma – Deputy Minister of Health Ethiopia

Plenary 1

Role of Tropical Medicine in mainstreaming Global Health
Martin Grobusch, Amsterdam

Plenary 2

20 September 2024, Friday, 08.45 – 09.05h
The challenge of Implementation (of interventions in Public Health and clinical care)
Till Bärnighausen, Heidelberg

Plenary 3

20 September 2024, Friday, 09.10 – 09.30h
Why improving sepsis care in Africa is a health priority
Emmanuel Nsutebo (Pres. African Sepsis Alliance, UAE)

Plenary 4

21 September 2024, Saturday, 08.30 – 08.50h
Innovations in Malaria
Peter Kremsner, Tübingen

Plenary 5

21 September 2024, Saturday, 08.55 – 09.15h
Harmonisation and Synergies in Tropical and Travel medicine
Christoph Hatz, Basel/Zurich

Conference Closing

21 September 2024, Thursday, 13.15 – 14.15h

Closing and Awards

Carsten Köhler & Torsten Feldt – DTG

Plenary 6

A virologist´s lookback on COVID-19
Christian Drosten, Berlin

Plenary 7

Future challenges and invitation to ECTMIH in Hamburg 2025
Jürgen May, Hamburg