Exciting news from The Threads Lab, Katarina Ost has officially earned her PhD! On May 19th Katarina successfully defended her thesis “Assessing strategies for the prevention and control of emerging tick-borne diseases in urban and peri-urban settings” that examined the current scientific knowledge on intervention strategies for Lyme Disease prevention in urban and peri-urban areas to inform locally adapted, acceptable, and feasible disease prevention and control strategies. Watch Katarina...

Threads Lab is excited to share a new scoping review by Dr. Sangare and colleagues, examining how human mobility shapes who is reached during mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns. The review highlights how these movement patterns can disrupt coverage, leaving pockets of untreated populations and sustaining disease transmission, even in areas with otherwise strong programs. Congratulations to all the authors on this great scoping review! Click here to read full paper.

The Threads Lab is delighted to announce that on April 30, 2026, Moussa Sangare successfully defended his PhD. Throughout his doctoral studies, Moussa demonstrated exceptional commitment and resilience in advancing research on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). His work on "Reaching Mobile Populations in Mass Drug Administration for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Evidence from Mali and Broader Implications for Africa” makes a meaningful contribution to the understanding and control of NTDs in...