ISNTD Festival 2021
Creative industries, science communication & public engagement for global health
Online conference
24-25th March 2021
#ISNTDFestival
Introduction
The ISNTD Festival brings together communication, arts, entertainment and science to help complex public health messages reach patients, the public and global health professionals worldwide. Welcome to the fifth annual ISNTD Festival!
ISNTD Festival Awards
Each year, the ISNTD Festival brings together some of the most exciting creative work aiming to tackle complex challenges in tropical and infectious diseases. These projects are entered for consideration as part of the ISNTD Festival Awards. The winners of this year's awards have been announced, and please click here to discover the Winners of the ISNTD Festival 2021 Awards and their beautiful and impactful pieces of work, with some inspiring and innovative collaborations between the creative industries and the field of public health. Congratulations!
Programme
Wednesday 24th March & Thursday 25th March 2021, online.
What have been some of the most exciting and successful communication efforts in the last year, focusing on tropical diseases and global health? How has the COVID19 pandemic changed the way we communicate about public health in the past year? How can public engagement and science communication best be leveraged to support communities in tackling their main public health challenges? Here are some of the issues which will be discussed in this year's ISNTD Festival.
We will also be giving our Awards, in categories ranging from apps, film, photo to gaming and all in between!
For any information or questions, or to enter your creative materials into our Showcase, please contact Kamran Rafiq (ISNTD Communications Director) at krafiq@isntd.org
Please join us over two days during the following sessions:
ISNTD FESTIVAL 2021: DAY 1
24 MARCH 2021
9.30-11.00 UTC
How has COVID19 changed the way in which we communicate about public health?
Gabriella Stern (Director of Communications at the World Health Organization)
Dr Pauline Paterson (The Vaccine Confidence Project, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Elizabeth Merab (Award-winning Health and Science Journalist, Nation Media Group, Kenya)
Steve Maud (Filmmaker & Founder, Cloud9Media, UK)
11:30-13:00 UTC
New ways of visual storytelling
Prof Diana Lockwood (Emeritus professor of Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & the New Face for Leprosy project)
Tom Bradley (Photographer & artist and the New Face for Leprosy project)
Lara Utian-Preston (Co-Founder & CEO of The Ladima Foundation)
John Ferguson (Visual Storyteller and Photographer)
13:30-15:00 UTC
The Bilharzia Storytelling Lab in Kenya: an innovative approach to community-based health education on schistosomiasis
Ms Lourdes Akello (Radio Journalist & Producer)
Ms Ngwatilo Mawiyoo (Poet, Filmmaker, Copywriter)
Ms Mutindi Mutuku (Media Lecturer)
Ms Njeri Wangari (Poet & Comms Professional)
Ms Julie Buur Trærup (Dalberg Media)
Antonia Asche (Specialist Schistosomiasis Elimination Program, Merck)
15:15-16:30 UTC
Digital design for infectious and neglected disease research
Plague Inc: how video games can help sensitise wide audiences to infectious diseases
James Vaughan (CEO & Founder, Ndemic Creations)
Harnessing complex diagnostic challenges: designing a lab-on-chip and digital diagnostics concept
Dr Francesca Piffer (Project Manager, Digital Diagnostics for Africa Network, Imperial College London)
The CIDEIM app and cutaneous leishmaniasis: mobile health applications for neglected tropical disease research and data
Dr Alexandra Cossio (Coordinator of Clinical Investigations, Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas, CIDEIM, Colombia)
ISNTD FESTIVAL 2021: DAY 2
25 MARCH 2021
10:00-11.30 UTC
Reaching affected communities: adapting communications and approaches
Using ethnographic film in tackling podoconiosis
Dr Lianne Cremers (Postdoctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / VU Amsterdam)
Reaching communities affected by Chagas disease
Dr Marina Gold (Chagas Disease Research Project, Mundo Sano)
Participatory planning for equity in MDA: Community advocacy for meaningful partnerships, communication and engagement of those left behind
Ms Noela Gwani (Sightsavers & COUNTDOWN on NTDs) and Dr Kim Ozano (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine & COUNTDOWN on NTDs)
Adapting Neglected Tropical Diseases programmes to support the COVID response: the role of behaviour change campaigns
Mr Chris Boyton (M&C Saatchi World Services)
12:00-13:30 UTC
Overcoming stigmatization through creativity: lessons from skin neglected tropical diseases
Challenging stigma and building dignity through Neglected Tropical Diseases communications
Andie Tucker (Project Manager, Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy, The Task Force for Global Health)
The Stigma Guides
Roos Geutjes (InfoNTD Coordinator & Information Officer) and Anne Schoenmakers (Project Leader & Medical Technical Consultant NLR, Leprastichting)
NTDs, Stigma and Mental Wellbeing: Photovoice and the Development of Support Groups in Nigeria
Dr Oluwatosin Adekeye (Team Lead, COUNTDOWN Wellbeing Study, Sightsavers Nigeria)
The Unconditional Appeal campaign and the role of the Changemakers
Hannah Mudge (Digital Innovation Manager, The Leprosy Mission England & Wales)
14:00-15:30 UTC
Creative approaches to support research and disease control
Tigist, the story of a girl with podoconiosis
Dr Lianne Cremers (Postdoctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / VU Amsterdam)
Animation "Dengue fever: what we know"
Mr Boluwatife Aderounmu (Motion Designer & Medical Student, University of Ibadan)
The Use and Value of Visual Approaches to Advance NTD Programmes
Ms Shahreen Chowdhury (COUNTDOWN on NTDs, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)
Creative Visual Methods in the Validation & Dissemination of Findings to Improve the Delivery of NTD Interventions in Liberia
Ms Georgina Zawolo (Lead Social Scientist, COUNTDOWN on NTDs, Liberia)
The Use of Cartoons to Improve Case Management of NTDs in Nigeria
Mr Martins Imhansoloeva (Research Coordinator, Policy & Programme Strategy at Sightsavers Nigeria and COUNTDOWN on NTDs)
16:00-17:00 UTC
Writing about health and disease: book panel
Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
Prof Peter Hotez (author & dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development)
If God is a Virus
Prof Seema Yasmin (author, journalist & Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine, Primary Care and Population Health, University of Stanford)
Showcase
Film & Animation
Dengue fever: what to know
Boluwatife Aderounmu
Leave No One Behind: Disease of Neglected People
Eisai Co
Stop the transmission of leprosy!
NLR International
Photos
Leishmania: surrounding & infecting the human immune cell macrophage as part of the Endosymbiotic Love project, see more.
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Print & Campaigns
Guides on Stigma and Mental Wellbeing
International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP) and the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network (NNN)
Vaccine Misinformation Management Field Guide (addressing the global infodemic)
UNICEF, Yale Institute for Global Health and PGP (The Public Good Projects)
Apps & Gaming
Games
Schisto & Ladders Game
by Pr. Uwem Ekpo (Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria)
'Resilience' Card Game
by Kelly Stanford (artist) & Dr. Chris Skinner (University of Hull)
'Poop Pondering'
Lauren Carruthers (University of Glasgow)
Comics
Snakebite education resources in Myanmar
Dr. Bethany Moos (Improving Global Health Fellow / Hedena Health Oxford)
Discovery News
University of Dundee
Worm Hunters
Wellcome Genome Campus Public Engagement
Helminths: the Secret World of Parasitic Worms
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology (WCIP) & artist Edward Ross
Books & Written
The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases
