Welkom bij ‘Transmission’, een meeslepende reis naar het hart van de wereldwijde gezondheidsstrijd, met de onderzoekers aan en partners van het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde in Antwerpen. Van vroege confrontaties met Ebola in verre dorpen tot de recente strijd tegen COVID-19 in drukke stedelijke omgevingen: dit zijn verhalen van veerkracht, ontdekking en menselijkheid in de meest uitdagende omstandigheden denkbaar. Dit is ‘Transmission’, jouw front-row seat naar de wereld van gezondheid, wetenschap en verder.
Transmission is the award-winning podcast of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. Explore the exciting journeys of scientists and physicians battling diseases worldwide, from confronting Ebola in distant villages to the fight against COVID-19 in bustling urban settings. Join our researchers in their quest for a healthier world, from war zones to indigenous communities, addressing pressing issues like maternal deaths, HIV stigma, and access to life-saving drugs.
Transmission: your front-row seat to the world of health, science and beyond. New episodes drop on Thursdays.
From new ways to control mosquitoes to the rise of African-led research: tune in to see the future of disease elimination. This episode will take you deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where our researchers are collecting blood samples, to a high-tech insectary in the heart of Antwerp, Belgium, where large swarms of mosquitos and tsetse flies are bred.
For more information on Transmission, go to www.itg.be/podcast.
This episode features:
- Jakke (Jan) Van Den Abbeele, parasitologist and insect molecular biologist, Head of the Unit of Trypanosoma (ITM)
- Anna Rosanas-Urgell, parasitologist and malariologist, Head of the Unit of Malariology (ITM)
- Ruth Müller, biologist and entomologist, Head of the Unit of Entomology (ITM)
- Veerle Vanlerberghe, epidemiologist and education coordinator at Department of Public Health (ITM)
- Halidou Tinto, ITM alumnus, parasitologist and Head of Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro in Burkina Faso
- Francesca Falconi, ITM alumna, microbiologist at Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru
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To learn more about ITM’s research on disease elimination, visit www.itg.be/en/research/disease-elimination
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