Monthly Noma Webinars

Monthly seminars will be held on the last Tuesday of each month from 16h00 to 17h00 South Africa Standard Time (UTC/GMT +2 hours). 

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Our objective is to showcase a diverse range of speakers with expertise and insights on noma. If you would like to present a webinar, please get in touch

The list of confirmed speakers for the next few webinars are below. 

Dr. Stuart Ainsworth

Tuesday the 27th of May 2025
at 16h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (UTC/GMT +2 hours). 

Dr Stuart Ainsworth (PhD) is a microbiologist at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Dr Ainsworth will present the  findings from the first ever shotgun metagenomic analysis of the oral microbiomes of noma patients. The data presented provides unprecedented detail of potential contributing organisms and opens up opportunities for development of diagnostics and targeted interventions.

Tuesday the 29th of July 2025
at 16h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (UTC/GMT +2 hours). 

John Button is a fourth-year Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) candidate at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

In May 2025, John became the inaugural graduate of the Master of Science in Oral and Population Health (MOPH) Program through the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) at Penn Dental Medicine.

John will present the findings which informed his thesis, “Noma (Cancrum Oris) Risk Factors: Feasibility of an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis (IPD-MA) and the Development of a Data Collection Tool for Noma Studies.” This is the first IPD-MA conducted on noma; John hopes this data collection tool will aid researchers in the design, implementation, and analysis of studies on noma and its risk factors. 

Dr. Carme Carrion

Tuesday the 30th of September 2025
at 16h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (UTC/GMT +2 hours). 

WHO SkinNTD App: field assessment from Kenya

Carme Carrion holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2002), a master’s in biotechnology (1995), a Master in Conflictology (2008) and a Master in Planetary Health (2024). She is currently Health Associate Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and part-time Associate Professor in the University of Girona (UdG). Previously she was Senior Researcher at the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (CAHTA) (2012–2016) where she was leading the development of several Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) and Clinical Decision Support systems. She has been the director of the master’s degree in eHealth at UOC's School of Health Sciences, a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating centre in eHealth. Currently, she is also the scientific coordinator of the eHealth Center at UOC, an academic centre whose main goal is to capacitate and empower citizens and professionals through the use of technology so that they can lead the paradigm shift in health. She is the Principal Investigator of eHealth Lab Research Group where she is leading several research proposals linked to the assessment of digital health interventions mainly in low and middle income countries. 



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