In this episode, we dive into the innovative solutions crafted by young minds to combat dengue in the inaugural ADVA Junior Achievement Dengue Slayers Challenge 2024. Discover their creative strategies, community impact, and how they’re hoping to shape a healthier, mosquito-free future. Together, let’s celebrate the next generation of changemakers!

Introduction

00:00:54 Francis Kwong, ADVA

00:04:49 JA Challenge Bosses

00:09:27 JA Malaysia Team

00:14:03 JA Philippines Team

00:16:11 JA Philippines Team Mentors

00:18:21 JA Indonesia Team

00:24:27 JA Singapore Team 1: Mozzy Moo Moo’s

00:26:16 JA SG Mentor

00:29:34 JA Singapore Team 2

00:31:58 JA SG Mentor 2

00:38:00 JA Thailand Winner

00:39:23 JA Thailand 2nd runner up

00:41:33 JA Thailand Mentors 1

00:46:05 JA Thailand Mentors 2

00:49:40 Dengue Slayers Challenge Final Judges

Join leading researchers, policy makers, and other experts as they dive deep into the insights from the 7th Asia Dengue Summit held in Kuala Lumpur, exploring the evolving landscape of dengue and its global impact in the first-ever full-length podcast dedicated to this critical topic.

Introductions

00:00:01 Dr. Francis Kwong, Secretariat, Asia Dengue Summit and Asia Voice & Dengue (ADVA)

00:00:23 Daffyd Green, Senior Director, Vista Health, and Kimberly Abalde, Senior Consultant, Vista Health

Guests

00:01:00 Dr. Zulkifli Ismail, Chairman, Organising Committee 7th ADS 2024 and Chairman, Asia Dengue Voice & Action (ADVA)

00:10:21 Dr. Francis Kwong, Secretariat, Asia Dengue Summit and Asia Dengue Voice and Action (ADVA)

00:16:12 Prof. Pratap Singhasivanon, Associate Professor, Department of Tropical Hygiene; Deputy Dean, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; and Secretary General/Coordinator of SEAMEO TROPMED

00:18:34 Assoc. Prof. Somia Iqtadar, Medicine KEMU and Sec General Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

00:21:03 Dr. Kien Quoc Do, Senior Epidemiologist, Institute Pasteur, Vietnam

00:25:23 Prof. Paul Young, Research Development, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) and Affiliate Professor, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Australia

00:33:35 Dr. Kwang Rong Chan, Senior Principal Research Scientist at Duke-NUS Medical School and Bioinformatics educator, Singapore

00:37:53 Dr. Michael MacDonnald, Public Health Entomologist, Innovative Vector Control Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

00:47:35 Tracy Loh, Executive Director - Head of Global Access, World Mosquito Program

00:49:04 Prof. Frances Edillo, Department of Biology, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines

00:52:38 Dr. Jonathan Liew, Section Leader (Innovations and Solutions), National Environment Agency, Singapore

00:58:05 Dr. Chong Zhuo Lin, Head, Centre for Communicable Diseases Research (CCDR), Malaysia

01:01:58 Rie Tai, Senior Consultant, Vista Health

01:06:30 Prof. Martin Hibberd, Professor of Emerging Infectious Disease, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Associate Director, Genome Institute of Singapore

01:09:45 Vanessa Daniel, Alliance & Operations Lead (South East Asia), Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)

01:14:03 Dr. Maria Rosario Capeding, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Muntinlupa City, Philippines and Treasurer, Asia Dengue Voice & Action; and Dr Fatima Ignacio Gimenez, Consultant, Victor R. Potenciano Medical Center (VRPMC), Philippines

A trailer for our upcoming DengCast - the world's first podcast series focused on dengue and aedes mosquitoes.