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Working Together Towards HAT Elimination: Highlights from 2024-2026

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:22:00 GMT

After a quiet period on the news feed, we wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on a busy two years of activity across the HAT MEPP project. From Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Chad and Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to international meetings in the USA and capacity-building activities at Warwick, the team has continued to work closely with national programmes, researchers and global partners to support evidence-based decision-making for the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT).

Ching-I Huang attends the PNLTHA-DRC Partners Meeting in Kinshasa

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:26:56 GMT

Ching-I, one of our modelling post-doctoral researchers, made a flying visit last week to Kinshasa to attend the National Sleeping Sickness Control Programme Partner's meeting, during which she presented on behalf of the HAT MEPP team and caught up with several of the team's collaborators in the process.

HAT MEPP team visit PNLTHA partners in Guinea

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:25:05 GMT

Last week the team visited the national sleeping sickness team in Guinea to discuss their fantastic work as they aim to eliminate sleeping sickness in the country and how modelling can work alongside them to help support future decision-making.

HAT MEPP at COR-NTD and ASTMH 2023 in Chicago

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:29:49 GMT

Lots of networking and showcasing of the teams great work is underway at COR-NTD and ASTMH in Chicago. Kat presented HAT MEPP's Graphical User Interface on Tuesday with Sam, Ching-I and Chris presenting their HAT work at ASTMH throughout the course of the week. Good luck to all and enjoy!

HAT MEPP team in Mombasa, Kenya for 36th General Conference of the ISCTRC

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:51:00 GMT

Kat and Sam visit Côte d'Ivoire

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:50:28 GMT

A very productive visit to the Côte d’Ivoire was had by Kat and Sam last week during which nuances of the sleeping sickness transmission model for the country were refined. Through discussions with the PNETHA-Côte d’Ivoire and IRD teams, a cost-effectiveness analysis for sleeping sickness elimination strategies is underway, led by Sam (HAT MEPP) and Koné (PNETHA) . There was even a bit of time to enjoy some traditional local dancing!

The HAT MEPP team attend TrypElim collaborator meeting in Antwerp

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:28:36 GMT

Kat Rock, Marina Antillon and Ching-I Huang were invited by TrypElim collaborators last week to present their modelling work during a series of meetings hosted by ITM in Antwerp, Belgium. The meeting, which focused on planning the next phase of the TrypElim project, was also attended by members of the wider HAT community.

Kat visits the national sleeping sickness team in Côte d'Ivoire

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:01:00 GMT

Thank you to the Côte d’Ivoire national sleeping sickness team PNETHA and the IRD team for hosting HAT MEPP’s group leader Kat Rock in Côte d’Ivoire in February 2022. Kat presented an update on HAT MEPP’s modelling progress followed by a series of very productive conversations with the teams on how to progress the Côte d’Ivoire transmission and health economic modelling. All in all, a very successful visit!

HAT MEPP Researchers at EPIDEMICS8

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:50:00 GMT

Great to see HAT MEPP's research being represented at the EPIDEMICS8 Conference (30 Nov – 3 Dec 2021) this week by our fantastic modellers Ron Crump and Ching-I Huang! Ching-I presented her work on Tuesday 30^th Nov on quantifying the impacts and cost-effectiveness of intensified interventions against sleeping sickness in the Mandoul focus of Chad and Ron will be presenting his work on Thursday 2^nd Dec on inferring missing screening data to uncover the dynamics of gHAT in Uganda today. Well done and good luck both!

HAT MEPP Researchers at ASTMH 2021

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:52:00 GMT

Good luck to our HAT MEPP researchers Ron Crump, Maryam Aliee and Marina Antillon whose work is being showcased at the ASTMH 2021 virtual meeting (17 Nov - 21 Nov). Maryam Aliee will be presenting her research on estimating timelines to EoT for sleeping sickness and its measurement in the presence of possible cryptic human & animal reservoirs and Ron Crump will be presenting his research on mathematical modelling of sleeping sickness in northern Uganda. Marina Antillon's poster presentation focuses on efforts against gHAT in Chad: A mathematical and economic modeling study of end-game interventions.