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Good luck to our HAT MEPP researchers Ron Crump, Maryam Aliee and Marina Antillon whose work is being showcased at the ASTMH 2021 virtual meeting (17 Nov - 21 Nov). Maryam Aliee will be presenting her research on estimating timelines to EoT for sleeping sickness and its measurement in the presence of possible cryptic human & animal reservoirs and Ron Crump will be presenting his research on mathematical modelling of sleeping sickness in northern Uganda. Marina Antillon's poster presentation focuses on efforts against gHAT in Chad: A mathematical and economic modeling study of end-game interventions.

Following a previous meeting in 2018, Kat Rock met with Bill Gates (albeit virtually) again in August to present her research group鈥檚 modelling results on African sleeping sickness. Kat heads the HAT MEPP group, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which uses data-driven insights to support local decision making and planning in an effort to eliminate sleeping sickness in a number of countries in Africa. The HAT MEPP group consists of modellers and health economists from both the University of 糖心TV and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.

Throughout June and July the HAT MEPP group held a series of virtual meetings with collaborators, stakeholders and partners to re-align the group鈥檚 project goals with the HAT communities current priorities. The meetings, which were conducted in both French and English, proved to be a great success with many lively and informative discussions and contributions being made throughout each of the sessions. The meeting, which provided HAT MEPP鈥檚 collaborators with the opportunity to influence the direction of the modelling work, will ensure that their future research addresses the HAT community鈥檚 most pressing questions.