GLOBAL HEALTH DIAGNOSTICS – AN END USERS PERSPECTIVE

Description:
This workshop draws on selected clinical infection syndromes for which diagnostic gaps currently limit individual patient care and/or community-level disease control in low-resource and remote settings. Three plenary sessions will cover the following:

1. Bloodstream bacterial infections and next-generation rapid phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing: current landscape and technology pipeline (C Yansouni)
2. Respiratory virus diagnostics in Global Health settings - end user perspectives (J Papenburg)
3. Chagas disease diagnostics: current landscape, gaps, and pipeline (M Ndao)

Following the 3 plenary sessions, an interactive panel discussion between audience members on panelists will take place with the aim of providing a granular understanding of diagnostics for these and other infectious syndromes of interest to attendees (eg sexually transmitted infections, fever syndromes, neglected tropical infections).

Objectives:
Focusing on the clinical infectious syndromes in the description, attendees can expect to understand critical use cases that must be considered for diagnostics, be familiar with needs remain unmet in global health settings, and the steps required to achieve validation, commercialization, and clinical adoption.