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Conference season is here... check out this year's posters and oral presentations!
If you are in Seattle, Toronto, Ottawa, and/or Benin, do check out the following posters and presentations, put together by our amazing...

THREADS Lab
Oct 31, 20221 min read


4th annual Faculty of Medicine Research Day 2022
The 4th annual Faculty of Medicine (at uOttawa) Research Day 2022 was held on Friday, September 23rd. Congratulations to Kruti Patel and...

THREADS Lab
Sep 26, 20221 min read


Nursing Now Challenge Webinar on FGS
On Monday, September 12, 2022, the FAST Package team participated in a Nursing Now Challenge webinar to raise awareness on Female Genital...

THREADS Lab
Sep 16, 20221 min read


Congratulations Dr. Alison Krentel!
Congratulations to Dr. Alison Krentel for the very well deserved Faculty of Medicine International Impact Award 🎉This award "recognizes...

THREADS Lab
Sep 15, 20221 min read


New paper: No evidence of LF transmission in Bamako urban setting after three MDA rounds
Congratulations to Moussa Sangare for his newly published paper: "No evidence of lymphatic filariasis transmission in Bamako urban...

THREADS Lab
Sep 9, 20221 min read


Congratulations Kruti!
Congratulations to Kruti on her successful thesis defense last week 🎉 The Threads Lab wishes you the best of luck in all your future...

THREADS Lab
Aug 10, 20221 min read


New paper: Resilience of CDDs conducting MDA for preventive chemotherapy of LF and Onchocerciasis
Congratulations to Threads Lab team members Dr. Alison Krentel, Charles Thickstun, Daniel Dilliott and their colleagues for their newly...

THREADS Lab
Jul 18, 20221 min read


Paper: Comparison of Different Sampling Methods to Catch LF Vectors in a Sudan Savannah Area of Mali
Congratulations to Moussa Sangare for his newly published paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene! Together with...

THREADS Lab
Jun 23, 20221 min read


New grant - Acceptability study preceding mass drug administration in Belitung, Indonesia
Our Lab has received a new subgrant to explore lymphatic filariasis elimination in Indonesia in partnership with colleagues at Washington...

THREADS Lab
May 27, 20221 min read


Welcome to our summer students!
The Threads Lab is excited to welcome summer students 🎉 Joses Robinson, a first-year Master at the School of Epidemiology and Public...

THREADS Lab
May 23, 20221 min read


Paint-along social at the Lab!
Every few weeks, our team gets together on Friday for a social event. In May, we painted tulips just in time for the Canadian Tulip...

THREADS Lab
May 19, 20221 min read


Congratulations Kruti and Moussa!
Congratulations to Moussa Sangare and Kruti Patel on their well-deserved awards! Moussa received the Bruyère Research Institute Graduate...

THREADS Lab
Apr 25, 20221 min read


Women's history month - Highlighting Women who Advance Health through Groundbreaking Research
For Women's history month, The Task Force of Global Health celebrated Dr. Alison Krentel for advancing health breakthroughs and breaking...

THREADS Lab
Apr 1, 20221 min read


Launch of the AJTMH Supplement on IDA & Other Innovations
We are excited to share the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Supplement on the introduction of IDA (Triple Drug Therapy...

THREADS Lab
Mar 16, 20221 min read


Health worker training on #FGSchisto in Ghana
Dr. Alison Krentel and Dr. Kazeem Arogundade were part of a health worker training on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Female...

THREADS Lab
Mar 11, 20221 min read


New award: Exploring patterns of non-participation across multiple health campaigns
The Threads Lab received a new award from the Health Campaign Effectiveness (HCE) Coalition to explore the potential that “never...

THREADS Lab
Mar 9, 20221 min read


Calling Ottawa to Kigali: an opportunity for Canada to fight neglected tropical diseases
As part of World NTD Day, Dr. Alison Krentel and Senator Stanley Kutcher co-authored an op-ed in the Hill Times on the importance of...

THREADS Lab
Feb 17, 20221 min read


Congratulations Claudia and Kruti!🎉
We are so proud of Threads' Lab PhD student, Claudia Duguay and MSc student, Kruti Patel who won the second and third place respectively...

THREADS Lab
Feb 16, 20221 min read


#WorldNTDDay!
Our Threads Lab members braved the Ottawa cold on this #WorldNTDDay to show they are #100PercentCommitted to #EndTheNeglect and #beatNTDs!

THREADS Lab
Jan 30, 20221 min read


Canada🇨🇦, let's sign the Kigali Declaration #100percentComitted
The Threads Lab is standing with the Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, members & allies to ask the Canadian Government to...

THREADS Lab
Jan 27, 20221 min read
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