Green Templeton College – anamed international – RITAM workshop on

Artemisia annua for the treatment of malaria

9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, March 13^th 2010

Barclay Room, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

Organisers: Dr Merlin Willcox (Department of Primary Health Care), Dr Keith Lindsey (anamed),
 Dr Elisabeth Hsu (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology), Chair: Dr Simon Challand (anamed)

Aim: To discuss the way forward for Artemisia annua as a herbal antimalarial, from the perspectives of researchers and of NGO / public health programmes

Topics

• research –evidence on efficacy and safety, and priorities for future research
• programmes on cultivation and use of Artemisia annua
• Use in public health programmes for the control and treatment of malaria
• resistance to artemisinin derivatives

Programme to include:

• Experimental ethno-archaeology on Qinghao in ancient Chinese medical texts (Dr Elisabeth Hsu)
• The Pharmacology of traditional Chinese preparations (Dr Colin Wright, University of Bradford)
• Anamed and the promotion of herbal Artemisia annua (Dr Keith Lindsey)
• Evaluation and pharmacovigilance of anamed projects in Uganda and Kenya (Shelly Burton and Merlin Willcox)
• Systematic review of clinical evidence on Artemisia annua herbal preparations (Dr Merlin Willcox)

 For Discussion & debate

• Improving existing programmes?
• Preparations of Artemisia annua
• Combination therapies
• Resistance to Artemisinin
• Artemisia annua and public health programmes

BOOKING

Participation is free of charge but we need to know numbers in advance for catering purposes.

To book a place, please e-mail merlinwillcox@doctors.org.uk

The organizers are grateful to Green Templeton College for providing the room and to the Department of Primary Health Care for sponsoring catering.

Participants will be invited to make a donation to cover the costs of speakers’ travel and the meeting’s organization.