12:30

Welcome - Dr. John Dirks; President and Scientific Director
The Gairdner Foundation

12:35

(Chair) Dr. Kevin Kain; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
and Director, S. Rotman Labs, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for
Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital
New diagnostics and therapeutics for severe malaria

12:50

2010 Canada Gairdner Global Health Awardee
Dr. Nicholas White ; Professor of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol and
Oxford University, Bangkok
Artemisinins: Opportunities and challenges

1:30

Dr. Ripley Ballou, Vice President and Head, Clinical Research and
Translational Science, Global Vaccine Development, GSK Belgium
Malaria RTSS Vaccine

2:00

Dr. Feiko ter Kuile, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Malaria and Pregnancy

2:30

Discussion

2:50

Break

3:00

(Chair) Dr. Prabhat Jha ; Director, Centre for Global Health
Research and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Dalla Lana
School of Public Health, University of Toronto

 3:10

Dr. David Brandling- Bennett, Deputy Director, Malaria Infectious
Diseases, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, Seattle WA
The Gates Foundation perspective on malaria elimination

3:40

Dr. Larry Slutsker, Malaria Branch Chief, Div of Parasitic Diseases and
Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, GA
The Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA)

4:10

Dr. Dean T. Jamison Professor, Department of Global Health,
University of Washington
Global economic strategy to reduce malaria deaths

4:40

Discussion

5:00

Symposium conclusions - Future Directions for malaria