Baylor College of Medicine
Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics
Dr. Eva Clark is an Assistant Professor with dual appointments in the Department of Medicine (Section of Infectious Diseases) and the Department of Pediatrics (Section of Tropical Medicine) at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA. She provides inpatient and outpatient Infectious Diseases care within Houston’s Harris Health System, with a focus on HIV and Tropical Medicine. She is also co-leader of the US Chagas Disease Providers’ Network and the Associate Director of Medical Education at BCM’s National School of Tropical Medicine. Dr. Clark's current research interests include the epidemiologic, immunologic, and clinical consequences of tropical infectious diseases on the development of chronic diseases in underserved communities.

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Video On-Demand

CHAIR INTRODUCTION (ID 2319)

Session Type
Video On-Demand
Date
08/21/2022
Session Time
18:00 - 21:00
Room
Video On-Demand
Lecture Time
18:00 - 18:10
Onsite or Pre-Recorded
Pre-Recorded
01. Living with parasites

THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT OF PARASITIC INFECTIONS ON WOMEN AND GIRLS LIVING IN TROPICAL REGIONS (ID 1854)

Session Type
01. Living with parasites
Date
08/24/2022
Session Time
13:15 - 14:45
Room
Hall B3.M5+6
Lecture Time
13:35 - 13:55
Onsite or Pre-Recorded
Onsite

Abstract

Abstract Body

Women and girls living in tropical, low resource communities may be disproportionately affected by some parasitic diseases and their sequelae. Examples include female genital schistosomiasis, intestinal helminth infection and cervical cancer risk, and in utero transmission of protozoa such as Trypanosoma cruzi and Plasmodium species. We should encourage development of public health interventions and robust research programs that explicitly target women and girls living in tropical regions, with the goals of improving control strategies and preventing complications of parasitic infections.

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