Tuesday, 17 June 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00
2.7 Parallel session: Reducing infant and child mortality through medical and health systems interventions
Presentations:
**OA-504 - Minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) for determining cause of death among children under five years of age integrated into a longitudinal population surveillance cohort
**Dan Kajungu, Makerere University Centre for Health and Population Research (MUCHAP), Uganda
**OA-308 - Real world monitoring of smart triage and a quality improvement program using paediatric sepsis processes as quality measures
**Yashodani Pillay, University of British Columbia and Institute for Global Health at BC Womens and Childrens Hospital, Canada
**OA-213 - Improving risk-stratification for sick African neonates using a prognostic point-of-care test based on the sTREM-1 biomarker
**Fio Vialard, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain
**OA-857 - The cost-effectiveness of the IMPALA monitoring system versus usual care for predicting life-threatening conditions in critically ill children in Malawi
**Jobiba Chinkhumb, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), Netherlands
**OA-648 - Providing BCG revaccination with the third dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine to improve child health in Africa
**Elsi Jose Carlos Ca Silva, Bandim Health Project, Guinea-Bissau
**OA-859 - Optimizing malaria treatment in infants & bridging the data gap for those under 5kg: a pharmacokinetic journey from clinical trials to physiologically based pharmacokinetic models
**Caroline Boulton, Novartis, United Kingdom