Register for the 3rd ITM alumni webinar featuring the winners of the Prize for Global Research 2025!
Webinar #3: “Evaluating the Dog Vaccination Programme and Integrated Bite Case Management to Eliminate Rabies in Bali, Indonesia”
This new series of ITM alumni webinars features the four ITM winners of the Prize for Global Research 2025. The Prize for Global Research is awarded yearly by the Province of Antwerp to research projects of ‘master-after-master’-students of ITM and other Higher Education Institutes. Development relevance, quality and originality of the master theses are key in the selection. Through this award, the Province of Antwerp wants to stimulate global research.
In webinar #3, MGOH-alumnus and laureate Wahid Fakhri Husein (Indonesia) will share insights from his master thesis, entitled “Evaluating the Dog Vaccination Programme and Integrated Bite Case Management to Eliminate Rabies in Bali, Indonesia.”
Since 2010, Bali Province in Indonesia has implemented dog vaccination initiatives and integrated bite case management (IBCM) as the main strategies to eliminate rabies. Nevertheless, the rabies virus continues to spread. In his Master’s thesis, Wahid Fakhri Husein aimed to evaluate these rabies elimination programmes, with specific objectives to evaluate the dog vaccination programme, to measure the IBCM protocol application, and to estimate the cost-effectiveness of the programme. This analysis was based on retrospective data, spanning the years 2008 to 2022.
In this webinar, Wahid Fakhri will present the main findings and outcomes of his thesis, and discuss her recommendations and conclusion. The Q&A-session, moderated by his co-thesis supervisor Chiara Trevisan, will enable to answer questions from the audience.
SPEAKER
· Wahid Fakhri Husein, MGOH-alumnus 2025, Indonesia
MODERATOR
· Chiara Trevisan, Researcher Eco-epidemiology unit, Department of Public Heath, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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