41. GTP Annual Conference    

12th-14th May 2023
Bonn, Germany

Conference theme: Learning and Teaching in Global Child Health

CME points

We would like to cordially invite you to our 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Tropical Paediatrics and International Child Health.

Under the guiding theme “Teaching. Tomorrow. Together. — Learning and Teaching in the Context of Global Child Health”, the meeting will take place from 12 to 14 May 2023 in the Beethoven and UN city of Bonn. In addition to various workshops and submitted abstracts, you can expect exciting keynote speeches from renowned speakers as well as the chance to make and refresh personal contacts.

Aspects of teaching and learning related to international child health will be presented in medical as well as socio-cultural thematic complexes in a global as well as local context. As usual, however, the annual conference also gives enough space to present other current and relevant aspects of global child health.

Together with you, we would also like to celebrate and cordially invite you to our social evening on 13 May 2023. We will sail on the Rhine through the night, want to eat and dance to live music.

We would like to make it possible for as many interested people as possible to attend and offer reduced prices for students and health professionals as well as childcare during the conference.

We are very much looking forward to your coming and to lively discussions.

Dr Andreas Schultz (Conference President) with Dr Claudia von Both, Dr Noa Freudenthal, Dr Andreas Hansmann, Andrea Jütte, Dr Sarah Kotsias-Konopelska, Dr Carsten Krüger, Eva Kuhn, Dr Hans-Jörg Lang, Dr Christian Schmidt and Dr Ralf Weigel

Details regarding workshops, fireside talks and the World Café are to be found here.

The Scientific Committee of the annual conference 2023 of the Society for Tropical Paediatrics and International Child Health e.V. invites Global Child Health clinicians, practitioners, researchers and policy makers to submit their abstract for (poster) presentation. We look forward to scientific and/or clinical projects, thought-provoking questions and lessons learned.

You may submit your abstract as

• topical abstract – related to the overarching conference theme,
• a free abstract – not related to the conference theme, but still within the scope of Global Child Health.

The abstract can be accepted either as a presentation or a poster. If your abstract is accepted, you automatically take part in the selection process for the Helmut-Wolf-Preis. The price is awarded for the best presentation or poster on the conference.

Please submit your abstract to Globalhealthevents(a)ukbonn.de with the subject line “GTP-Abstract”.

Criteria for your Abstract

• Only submissions in English will be accepted.
• Submit your abstract as a PDF file.
• Give your full name and affiliation in the e-mail text.
• Do not include any personal information in the abstract document to enable blind review.
• Structure your abstract as follows:
  1. Research Abstract: title, research question, method, results, discussion
  2. Project Abstract: title, project description, lessons learned
• The abstract must not exceed 3.000 characters (including blank spaces).
• Indicate below the abstract
  1. if you deem it to be a topical or free abstract,
  2. if you prefer to present orally or a poster.

General Information

The conference team has created a PDF with useful information about sightseeing in Bonn.

Friday

Afternoon

Instead of a second workshop, we offer the opportunity to get to know Bonn better on a guided city tour. The city tour will then end at the location of the conference kick-off. Please let us know your interest in this city tour when registering (deadline: 20.4.23). For people who are not members of the GTP, a city tour on Saturday afternoon will be offered as an alternative.

Evening

Following the conference kick-off, we invite you to a get-together with snacks and drinks. Make new contacts, toast the reunion with colleagues and get into the conference mood.

Saturday

Afternoon

For people who are not members of the GTP, a guided city tour will be offered during the GTP general meeting. For GTP members, a city tour will take place on Friday afternoon.

Please let us know your interest in this city tour when registering (deadline: 20.4.23).

Evening

We cordially invite you to spend Saturday evening with a buffet and live music and dancing on the MS Poseidon. The ship will depart from bridge 13 after the MV at around 8 p.m. and will sail the Rhine towards Cologne and back towards Koblenz until around 1 a.m.. For all those who want to continue dancing after the end of the cruise, the conference office has further tips and information ready. 

We also try to make it possible to leave the ship for the first time around 10.30/23 pm. 

The conference organizers have created a list of hotels close to the conference venue of different prize categories. This list can be accessed here.

Conference fees

Discounts

We are pleased to offer you the following discounts.

Credit points

CME points are applied for

Cancellation policy

• In case of cancellation up to and including 15.03.2023, we will refund the entire conference fee. 
• In case of cancellation up to and including 10.04.2023, we will refund half of the corresponding conference fee. 
• Unfortunately, we cannot make any refunds after 11.4.2023.  

The content of this event will be designed to be product and service neutral. We confirm that the scientific management and the speakers will disclose potential conflicts of interest to the participants.

We would like to thank the following supporters, whose donations made it possible to hold this event:

General inquiries and comments (not for registration): globalhealthevents(a)ukbonn.de

Registration: https://globalchildhealth.de/anmeldunggtp2023/

Banking details

Gesellschaft für Tropenpädiatrie und
Internationale Kindergesundheit (GTP) e. V.
Volksbank Ahlen-Sassenberg-Warendorf
IBAN: DE 95 4126 2501 1102 1632 03
BIC: GENODEM1AHL
Betreff: “GTP2023 Beitrag, Ihr Vor- und Nachname”

Abstract Submission: Closed

Welcome

After the cancellation of the course in 2021 due to the pandemic and the postponement of the TropPaed course and the GTP annual conference to the warm season in order to minimise the risk of a face-to-face event due to COVID-related restrictions, we are pleased to invite you to Rauischholzhausen for a second time in May!

We would like to offer you again a varied programme of lectures, practical small group work and clinically oriented seminars. In addition, there will be plenty of time for international exchange of plans and experiences.

As our planning progresses, you will continually find more details about the timetable and lecturers on this page.

Course fee and registration

The price includes course participation, accommodation from 14-19 May, meals and coffee breaks from Sunday (dinner) to Friday (lunch) and course materials. The price does not include alcoholic beverages and drinks outside of those served at meals and coffee breaks, as well as transport costs and any compulsory Sars-CoV-2 testing we may incur.

Scholarships for colleagues from LMIC are available. Applications will be received until Octobre 15th 2022 (to: gtpscholarships(a)globalchildhealth.de). Please send us a motivational letter, CV and reference letter. Further details: “Förderung internationaler Kollegen“.

Venue

We are pleased to be able to hold our course again at Schloss Rauischholzhausen, the conference and training centre of the University of Gießen. This historic and beautiful venue is perfect for our course as it offers the possibility of accommodating all participants, organisers and lecturers in one place, good facilities and a very fair financial framework. The versatile room selection meets our demand of lectures combined with small group work. Catering includes three main meals and two coffee breaks per day. All but one main meal will be vegetarian. Hosting the course there for the first time in 2016 has proven to be a complete success. We will keep you informed about current Sars-CoV-2 hygiene regulations here on our homepage.

We sincerely thank all the volunteer co-organisers of the course for their years of dedication as well as our financial supporters!

We assure you that our intensive course is designed to be product and service neutral and all content is independent of commercial interests. No services and/or products are advertised. Possible conflicts of interest are disclosed in a self-disclosure.

European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases

Kindermissionswerk “Die Sternsinger”

27-29th May 2022          

Basel, Switzerland

Conference theme: “Integrating General Paediatrics in health systems of resource limited settings; scope of the speciality and needs assessment on staffing and logistics“

CME points:
18 CME points in Germany
4 credits by the SGP (Swiss Society of Paediatrics)

Dear GTP members, dear interested colleagues!

The 40th Annual Meeting of the GTP in 2022 will take place in Basel, Switzerland – outside of Germany for the first time. This multifaceted, international city does not only offers favorable geographical conditions. We have well established contacts with the Swiss Tropical Institute and the University Children’s Hospital. Long-time GTP members have also found a new personal and professional home in Switzerland.

In recent years, the work of the GTP (TropPaed course, ETAT courses) has enjoyed increasing attention from Swiss colleagues. By organizing the annual meeting in Switzerland, we would like to take the opportunity to exchange views on the topics of global child health with a broad circle of like-minded people here, in an environment with a long tradition and experience in the field of tropical medicine and global health, to make the activities of the GTP better known, to advertise for collaboration and to promote networking.

The main theme of the upcoming conference will be ” Integrating General Paediatrics in health systems of resource limited settings; (scope of the speciality and needs assessment on staffing and logistics”).

With this choice of topics, we would like to discuss the complexities that lead to well-structured pediatric primary care. In many areas of pediatric care, significant progress has been made in recent years. International programs such as those to combat malaria, HIV, TB, strengthening immunization strategies, and neonatal programs contributed significantly to reducing child mortality.

Yet today, many partner countries lack structured pediatric preventive and surgical care. There is a lack of outpatient clinics with adequate diagnostic capabilities for chronic, endocrinological and neurological diseases, as well as palliative care and continuous, good quality monitoring and follow-up.

In the next weeks you will find updates of the program and information about our speakers here on our website.

We look forward to a lively international exchange with you about experiences and approaches that help us to give children worldwide a good start in life through improved health care systems and to accompany them through their childhood and adolescence.

Yours

Gudrun Jäger und Charlotte Adamczick
Conference Presidents.

13:00-18:00  –  Registration and poster set-up

13:30-15:30 – Workshops part 1

• Ultrasound in LMICs
• Fully booked: Workshop of the working group climate change and global child health
• How (not) to go abroad

15:45-17:45 – Workshops part 2

• Ultrasound in LMICs
• Paediatric surgery in LMIC: Gastroschisis Workshop
• Titles changed: “Medicine under difficult conditions” and “How does western e-mobility affect the human rights situation in Congo?” (Working group health professions)
• Workshop of the working gruop ETAT+
• Postkolonial development policies

15:30-18:00 – Board meeting

18:15-18:45 – Conference opening

• Welcome note by the organizers (C. Adamczick, G. Jäger)
• Welcome note by the GTP chairs (S. Kotsias-Konopelska, C. Schmidt)
• Welcome note by the Deputy Medical Director of the University Children’s Hospital Basel UKBB’ (S. Schulzke)

18:45-19:45  –  Keynote lecture
Global Child Health after the easy victories: time to step up for the difficult ones
T. Tylleskär – University Bergen & FESTMIH

19:45-20:00  –  Short film: Interviews with children world-wide

20:00-22:00  –  Get together and Apero riche

8:30-8:40   Welcome note and introduction to the academic program
J. Uetzinger – SwissTPH

8:40-10:00 Session 1: “Healthy (IT) systems” to reach every child in countries with restricted and limited resources

Challenges and opportunities in a changing world of communication. How to reach every child from the hospital to remote communities, through new health technologies and telemedicine to provide sustainable quality care and empower health personal.
Chairs: C. Adamczick, P. Meißner

• 8:40-9:00 How to make health care as affordable and accessible as possible: challenges and lessions learnt from West and Central Africa
  N. Schramm – UNICEF
• 9:00-9:20 “Banda Health”: a cloud-based clinic management system to empower healthcare providers in low-income communities across Africa to get the most out of the available resources
  S. Letchford – Kijabe Hospital, Kenia & Cofounder and president of Banda Health
• 9:20-9:35 Digital health solutions for child care in LMICs – the example of ALMANACH
  A. Junker – SwissTPH digital health unit
• 9:35-9:45 Abstract: Burden reduced cleft lip and palate care and healing – optimizing treatment strategy with minimal burden for patients and health systems
  B. Gözcü – Cooperation BRCCH, Basel, Warsaw, Hyderabad
  9:45-10:00 Abstract: Digital Media supporting patients with skin diseases in Sub Saharan Africa
  P. Schmid
  

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:00 Session 2: GTP projects, partnerships and Swiss organizations
Overview of GTP projects and working groups and presentation of Swiss organizations related to global child health
Chairs: S. Kotsias-Konopelska, C. Schmidt

• 10:30-10:45 Neonatology in Tanzania: Residence program
  A. Züchner – CCBRT, Tanzania
• 10:45-11:00 EKFS/GTP paediatric ultrasound network: experiences from international teaching and practical training courses
  C. Schmidt – St. Vinzenz Hosp. Dinslaken
• 11:00-11:15 The ETAT program at a glance and experiences from GTP courses
  J. Lindert – Great Ormond St. Hosp. London
  B. Zimmer – Universität Münster
  S. Loetz – Olgaspital Stuttgart
• 11:15-11:30 Training and strengthening of health systems in Sierra Leone in cooperation with the MoH
  G. Jäger – Kinderspital St. Gallen
• 11:30-12:00 Presentations of Swiss foundations and organizations (10 min each):
  1. Paediatric critical care in LMIC with refugee crisis
  R. Anderson – Zurich University Hospital, MSF Swiss
  2. Calcutta Project Basel – A student-led project in the fields of health and prevention
  Z. Roth – Foundation Calcutta Project Basel
  3. 30 year experience of Kantha Bopha Children Hospitals in Cambodia
  Michael Grotzer – Director University Children Hospital Zurich, vice president Katha Bopha Foundation
  

12:00-13:15 Lunch and poster walk

13:15-14:40 Session 3: Preventive Child Health, chronic diseases and NCDs
Is prevention and screening for child and adolescent illnesses neglected in Global Child Health?
Chairs: F. Jäger, W. Schimana

• 13:15-13:45 Promoting health and wellbeing in children and adolescents; the role of school health
  V. Baltag & B. Delmans – WHO department of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health.
• 13:45-14:00 Burden of NCDs and chronic diseases in LMICs with a focus on Allergies and Asthma
  A. Weise – Kaltenkirchen
• 14:00-14:15 The diagnostic and treatment gap in child neurology in low resource settings – Example East Africa
  T. Oneko – Kenya Medical Institute, Center for Global Health Research
• 14:15-14:25 Abstract: Continuum of care for low birth weight infants in the neonatal period in Ghana – A constructivist grounded theory study
  C. Schuler – Zurich
• 14:25-14:35 Abstract: Travel time to reach health care facilities in the referral pathway for paediatric emergency treatment in Boeny, Madagascar
  M. Braun – University Witten/Herdecke
• 14:35-14:40 Discussion

14:40-15:10 Coffee break

15:10-17:15 Session 4: Paediatric surgergy, – orthopedics, rehabilitation and palliative care in LMICs
While some children may be cured through minor operations, others have a long way to go in rehabilitation and physiotherapy, where it is available. When cure is no longer possible, families and caretakers need special attention and support.
Chairs: J. Lindert, tba

• 15:10-16:10 Surgery
  15:10-15:25 Global Paediatric Surgery
  N. Wright – UK
  15:25-15:40 Gastroschisis care at Bugando Medical Center, Tanzania
  A. Masenga – Bugando Medical Center
  15:40-15:50 Paediatric injury: a call to action for a looming epidemic
  D. Mazingi – Zimbabwe
  15:50-16:00 Improved clubfoot treatment through local networking – experiences in a project in Orissa/India
  B. Speth – UKBB, Basel
  16:00-16:10 Paediatric burns
  W. Bislima – Bukavu General Hospital
• 16:10-17:15 The child with disability and need for rehabilitation
  16:10-16:25 Rehabilitation and physiotherapy in low-income communities in Kenya
  S. Letchford – Kijabe Hospital, Kenia
  16:25-16:40 Care-program for young patients with Albinism in Malawi
  R. Moser
  16:40-17:00 Is paediatric palliative care possible in settings with limited ressources?
  S. Loetz – Olgaspital Stuttgart
  J. Chikwana – Zomba Regional Hospital, Malawi
  17:00-17:15 Celebrating Carers: Recognising the Contribution of Family Carers and Addressing their Needs in Low and Middle-Income Countries
  A. Patil – NGO Carers world-wide

17:15-19:00   GTP member assembly

19:30  Social evening and dinner at the “Atlantis” in Basel Old Town

8:30 – 10:30 Session 5: New strategies to diagnose and treat high burden infectious diseases within the paediatric community and ways to implement those in existing health systems, keeping a critical eye!
Chairs: E. Molyneux, S. Gehring

• 8:30-8:45 Innovative drugs in helminth infection suitable for the paediatric population
  J. Keiser – SwissTPH, Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology
• 8:45-9:00 Abstract: Effectiveness of rectal artesunate as pre-referral treatment for children with severe malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
  M. Hetzel – Swiss TPH
• 9:00-9:15 Malaria Elimination in the Greater Mekong Region
  L. v. Seidlein – Mahidol Oxford Tropical Research Unit, Bangkok
• 9:15-9:45 TB care integrated in general paediatic health services; update on guidelines and application
  S. Verkuijl – WHO Global Tb program
  M. Casenghi – WHO Pedaids
• 9:45-10:00 New international guidelines on Sepsis treatment
  L. Schlapbach – University Childrens’ hospital Zürich
• 10:00-10:10 Abstract: Use of a 9-valent-RT-PCR-ELISA in acute febrile patients
  G. Haist – University Hospital Mainz
• 10:10-10:20 Abstract: Clinical Characteristics, transmission rate and outcome of neonates born to COVID-19 positive mothers: a prospective case series from a low and middle income country
  M. Rood – Suriname, Rotterdam
• 10:20-10:30 Discussion

10:30-11:10 Coffee break

11:10-13:00 Session 6: There is more than just COVID-19
The importance of vaccinations in prevention of childhood illnesses and the impact of COVID-19 on global child health
Chairs: U. Heininger, N. Ritz

• 11:10-11:35 Interruption and consequences of paediatric general services through the COVID-19 pandemic: update, resume and outlook
  E. Molyneux – Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and College of Medicine, Blantyre
• 11:35-11:50 Bio-psycho-social aspects in the pandemic; Swiss example and results of the “Ciao Corona” study
  S. Kriemler – Leitung “Ciao Corona” Studie
• 11:50-12:10 Science meets politics with a global perspective
  U. Heininger – UKBB, Department of Infectious Diseases
• 12:10-13:00 Panel discussion: Is there something such as “global vaccine equity”?

13:00-13:30   Good-bye and pre-announcements regarding the next annual conference

Deadline: 31. March 2022

We invite you to submit abstracts of your research, projects or clinical work related to the themes of our conference. They will be systematically reviewed and considered for oral or poster presentation.

Please send your abstract to: gtp2022-abstracts(a)globalchildhealth.de.

Accepted abstracts become eligible for the Helmut Wolf Prize.

Abstract criteria:

• English or German (preferably English)
• 3000 characters (including blank characters) maximum
• Abstract structure: Project description or research question, methods, results, discussion and conclusion.

Address
Spitalstrasse 21 / Petersgraben 4
4031 Basel
Switzerland

Conference entrance:
Hebelstr. 20

Homepage

Friday

Get together
After the conference kick-off, we invite you to socialize over a stand-up snack with drinks. Attendance is included in the conference fee, please indicate your attendance when registering for the purpose of catering planning.

Saturday

Cultural program during the general meeting.
In the near future, we will provide here a collection of cultural notes for conference participants who will not attend the GTP General Assembly to bridge the time until our joint social evening.

Social Evening.
We look forward to enjoying the social evening with you at the atmospheric Atlantis! With food, drinks and live music, we will have the opportunity to further exchange ideas and celebrate with colleagues.

Basel Youth Hostel is a welcoming accommodation close to the conference venue. In one- to six-bed rooms you can stay inexpensively and at the same time in a stylish atmosphere. For more information on accommodation and room availability, please visit the homepage of the Swiss Youth Hostels.

Jugendherberge Basel
Maja Sacher-Platz 10
4052 Basel
Switzerland

basel(a)youthhostel.ch

Phone: +41 61 272 05 72

Registration, Participation and Fees

Stornierungsrichtlinien:
– Absage bis 27.4.2022: Erstattung der gesamten Tagungsgebühr.
– Absage bis 13.5.2022: Erstattung von 50% der Tagungsgebühr.
– Absage ab dem 14.5.2022: Keine Rückerstattung der Tagungsgebühr.

Zertifizierung:

18 CME Punkte
4 credits der SGP (Schweizer Pädiatrische Gesellschaft)

The content of this event will be designed to be product and service neutral. We confirm that the scientific management and the speakers will disclose potential conflicts of interest to the participants.

We would like to thank the following supporters whose donations made it possible to hold the event:

General inquiries and comments (not for registration): sekretariat(a)globalchildhealth.de

Conference registration:

Banking details:
Gesellschaft für Tropenpädiatrie und
Internationale Kindergesundheit (GTP) e. V.
Volksbank Ahlen-Sassenberg-Warendorf
IBAN: DE 95 4126 2501 1102 1632 03
BIC: GENODEM1AHL
Re: “GTP2022, your name”

Abstract submission (deadline extended: 31st March 2022): Email: gtp2022-abstracts@globalchildhealth.de

Copyright

Welcome!

After the cancellation of the course in 2021 due to the pandemic, we are looking forward to welcoming you again in Rauisscholzhausen in 2022!

The registration will be activated shortly. Furthermore, we encourage you to subscribe to our newsletter, through which you will receive up-to-date information on further planning.

In 2022 we will again bei offering you an interesting program of lectures, practical small group work and clinically oriented seminars. In addition, there will be plenty of time for international exchange of plans and experiences.

As our planning progresses, you will continually find more details about the schedule and lecturers on this page.

Fee and application

The price includes course participation, accommodation from 22.5.-27.5., meals and coffee breaks from Sunday noon to Friday morning and course materials. If you wish to arrive already on Saturday, this is possible for an extra charge of 35 Euro for the additional overnight stay. Please select the appropriate option when registering. Not included in the price are alcoholic beverages and drinks outside of those served at meals and coffee breaks, as well as transportation costs and any mandatory Sars-CoV-2 testing that may come our way.

Scholarships for colleagues from countries with limited resources will unfortunately not be awarded in the usual form in 2022. The pandemic-related travel restrictions force us to accept international applications only from selected partner countries where the requirements for entry are met. Thus, with a heavy heart, we will forego the open application process in 2022. In the future we hope to be able to accept applications again in the old way. For this we ask you to send us a letter of motivation including your curriculum vitae. You can find more details on this under the section “sponsoring of international colleagues“.

Venue

We are pleased to be able to hold our course again in 2022 at Schloss Rauischholzhausen, the conference and training facility of the University of Giessen. This historic and beautiful venue is tailor-made for our course as it offers the possibility to accommodate all participants, organizers and lecturers in one place, good facilities and a very fair financial framework. The versatile room selection meets our demand of lectures combined with small group work. Catering includes three main meals and two coffee breaks per day. Vegan and vegetarian options are available at each meal. Hosting the course there for the first time in 2016 has proven to be a complete success. We will keep you informed about current Sars-CoV-2 hygiene regulations here on our homepage.

We sincerely thank all the volunteer co-organizers of the course for their years of dedication as well as our financial supporters!

European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases

Kindermissionswerk “Die Sternsinger”

We`re happy to announce that we could organize our second ETAT+ Instructor Course despite several challenges. Finally, we reached out to hold a three days couse in Hamburg with an international group of participants as well as instructors from August 27th – 29th 2021. After a first pilot course in 2019, which we conducted in Hannover with great support from the UK ETAT team, we planned to perform a course by a mixed instructor team including the German ETAT+ team, UK ETAT team as well as very experienced instructors from the ERC and American heart association (EPALS trainer from Germany, Switzerland as well as the Netherlands).

The goal of the ETAT+ Instructor Course is to teach and enable former ETAT+ course participants who showed instructor potential the possibility to get a deeper insight into adult learning and how to perform it efficiently. The foundation of this instructor course were the teaching methods from the European resuscitation council (ERC) and the course content from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in UK. A special part of the agenda were group discussions about challenges and important points related to implementing trainings in low resource settings and other cultures. With this background information it should be possible to teach ETAT+ (as well as other simulation trainings) in different countries and cultures even more effectively.

We were lucky that our international instructor team could travel over three country borders from UK, Germany and Switzerland despite the Sars-Cov-2-pandemic restrictions. And even our participants came from different European countries like the Netherlands, Ukraine and Germany. The course was held in the Wilhelmsstift Hospital in Hamburg with great support from the local team.

The three day training was very intense including a lot of practical trainings with personal feedback and room for improvement due to good repetition. It was wonderful to see the fast progress in teaching skills from day to day. All participants enjoyed the good atmosphere, the chance to train under supervision of experienced trainers as well as exchanging ideas with one another.

In total, this course was a great success and we had a fantastic time all together where everyone could benefit from another! This is great networking! This is the future of great instructors who can spread the word of ETAT around the globe!

Thanks to everyone who took part by organisation, participation and teaching!

Gudrun Jäger & Barbara Zimmer for the German ETAT+ Team & international instructors

Sponsors

We are grateful for having been sponsored by the