The Road to ICOPA2026 webinar in May focused on permanent ectoparasites of humans and the challenges they continue to present in both clinical and public health settings. Webinar 4: The Road to ICOPA2026 – Webinar 4: Tracing Humanity Through Its Lice: Evolution, History, and Today When: Thursday, 21 May 2026, 15:00 (CET) Speaker: Prof. Kosta…
Watch Webinar 3: Malaria Elimination Roadmap: The What, How and When Malaria elimination remains one of the most complex and closely followed challenges in global health. As part of The Road to ICOPA 2026 webinar series, Webinar 3 will focus on a critical question: what does a realistic elimination roadmap actually look like in practice?…
Watch the second WFP webinar series: Celebrating 2026 World Parasite Awareness Day recorded on Thursday 26 March 2026 Presenters: Dr Sadura Tiwananthagorn (Associate Prof. , DVM, Faculty of veterinary Medicine Chiang Mai University, Thailand) presenting “Leishmania martiniquens infection in humans & animals”.and Dr. Elshafie Ibrahim Elshafie (Associate Prof., BVM, MTAH, Dept of Animal and Veterinary…
Watch the launch of the WFP webinar series: The road to ICOPA2026. The first session was recorded on Thursday 26th February 2026 and WFP President Pikka Jokelainen gave an introduction to the WFP and an Inspirational talk on One Health. To watch the WFP webinar on YouTube please use this link
Are all parasites “gross” and bad? How many parasites are out there? Why are parasitologists so crazy about parasites? Join the free UN Parasite Biodiversity Day Presentations online 14 & 15 October from 6-10pm MST. In celebration of U.N. Biodiversity Conference COP 15, Global Parasitologist Coalition presents this eight-session event covering parasites from all kinds of…
Sejal Gohil, Lev Kats, Torsten Seemann, Kate Fernandez, Ghizal Siddiqui and Brian Cooke (Monash University) recently published their International Journal for Parasitology article “Bioinformatic prediction of the exportome of Babesia bovis and identification of novel proteins in parasite-infected red blood cells”. Sejal and Brian talk to Lisa Jones about their Babesia bovis research. Click here to read the interview in PDF
Hong You graduated in 2010 with a PhD from her research on Schistosoma japonicum vaccine (IJP, August 2012*) and has recently won an NHMRC Fellowship and ASP Network for Parasitology Researcher Exchange Travel Award. Hong You talks to Lisa Jones about her research. Click here to read the interview in PDF
Dr Cinzia Cantacessi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Queensland Tropical Health Alliance Research Laboratory, James Cook University (Cairns). It has been a big year for Cinzia, being awarded The University of Melbourne Chancellor’s Prize for Excellenece in a PhD Thesis and and an NHMRC Peter Doherty – Australian Biomedical Fellowship for her research on “Hookworm proteins as novel antiinflammatory therapeutics”. Cinzia speaks to Lisa Jones about her career, her research and…
discontools.eu This site gives an overview over certain diseases (not all parasitic though) and identifies knowledge gaps and current diagnostic tools. Click here for more information
The second WHO report builds on the growing sense of optimism generated by the 2012 publication of the WHO Roadmap. Commitments on the part of ministries of health in endemic countries, global health initiatives, funding agencies and philanthropists have escalated since 2010, as have donations of medicines from pharmaceutical companies and the engagement of the…