Centre for Global Health Policy

Panel 4. Emerging Molecular Diagnostics – What are the Challenges to Widespread Implementat

Panel Organisers:

Melanie Newport, Director, Wellcome Trust Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health Research


Michael Hopkins, Senior Lecturer, SPRU (the Science Policy Research Unit), University of Sussex

 

Panel Chair:


Paul Nightingale, Professor of Strategy, SPRU (the Science Policy Research Unit), University of Sussex

 

Speakers:


Edward D Blair, PhD MBA, Integrated Medicines Ltd, Cambridge, UK, ‘Value-based diagnostics in high income countries’

 

Martin Colla, Programme Director Asia, Cepheid High Burden & Developing Countries, ‘Xpert MTB/Rif: Delivering MDx to LMICs’

 

Annie Wilkinson, Post Doctorate Researcher, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, ‘Bringing precision medicine to low resource health systems: new diagnostics for Lassa fever in Sierra Leone’