Travel Awards

BMGF Professional Development Awards

With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ISID will support approximately 50 early career investigators to attend the ISID Congress 2022 and present their work during one of the poster or oral sessions. Grants will be awarded to the highest-ranking abstract presenters addressing challenges in the area of infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries in the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions*. The grant includes reimbursement of approved travel expenses, Congress registration, hotel accommodation, and, if needed, costs associated with visa application.

Eligibility and Application Procedure:

Applicants must be less than 40 years of age as of October 25, 2021.
Applicants MUST be living and working in one of the countries listed below.
To apply, interested applicants must submit an abstract describing their own original research to the ISID Congress 2022 as a presenting author.

If you wish to apply for these awards please check the appropriate box on the ‘affirmations’ page when submitting your abstract.

*Eligible countries:

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Korea, Dem. People’s Rep., India, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Nepal, Islands, Micronesia Fed. Sts., Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Pakistan, Philippines, American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.

ISID Award – supported through a grant from MyCEB

The International Society for Infectious Diseases is delighted to continue the ISID New Investigator Award for the ISID Congress 2022. The award includes round trip economy airfare to the Congress, hotel accommodation and registration for the Congress. The award will be presented during the Opening Ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.

Eligibility and Application Procedure:

Applicants must be based in a low- or middle-income country according to the World Bank.
Applicants must submit to the ISID Congress 2022 and have accepted an abstract of original research on any aspect of infectious diseases not previously published or presented at an international meeting.
Only applicants who have not previously had an abstract accepted for oral presentation at an international meeting are eligible. For purposes of this award, acceptance of abstracts at regional meetings outside North America or Europe does not affect eligibility.

If you wish to apply for this award, please check the appropriate box on the ‘affirmations’ page when submitting your abstract.

Natalia Pshenichnaya

Natalia Pshenichnaya graduated from medical university in 1991 and finished her internship in infectious diseases in 1993. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. In 2006, she received her D.Sci. in infectious diseases, and in 2011, she became a diploma Professor in infectious diseases. From 1996 to 2019, Natalia worked as an assistant professor, associate Professor Professor, and head of the Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology department at the Rostov State Medical University. From 2011 to 2012, she acted as the WHO project officer for "Climate Change and Health" in WHO CO in Russia. From 2019 to 2020, she worked at the National Medical Research Center of Phthisiopulmonology and Infectious Diseases as the Head of the International Department in Moscow, Russia.

Since June 2020, she has been working as Deputy Director of the clinic and analytic work at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of The Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) in Moscow, Russia. She is also a Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute and an infectious diseases consultant at the Infectious Diseases Hospital #2 in Moscow.

Since 2004, she has been a ProMED-mail RUS moderator for the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Since 2007, she has been involved in WHO activity as a short-term consultant (Influenza, Severe Acute Respiratory Infections, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, IHR, IPC, COVID-19). Since 2017, she has acted as Associate Editor of the Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials and since 2019 - a Russian Academy of Science expert. Natalia was a member of the WHO-China joint technical mission to China to support response operation for the COVID-19 outbreak February 2020, Russian military-medical humanitarian mission on COVID-19 in Bergamo (Lombardia province), Italy, 22 March-10 April 2020; WHO GOARN technical and assessment mission on COVID-19 and WHO IPC and clinical management mission on COVID-19 in Tajikistan (May-September 2020), Rospotrebnadzor technical and consultative missions on COVID-19 in Kyrgyzstan (July and August 2020), South Africa (December 2021), typhoid fever in Republic of Congo (August, 2023).

Natalia's areas of scientific interest are influenza and other acute respiratory infections, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, West Nile Fever, other zoonotic diseases, acute diarrhea, infectious diseases in travelers, viral hepatitis, etc.

Alison Holmes

Alison has a longstanding clinical and research career in global infectious diseases, with particular interests in antibiotic use, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), epidemiology, and public health within healthcare and has served on the Executive Committee of the ISID, chairing the Education and the Publications Committee and introducing the Emerging Leaders initiative. She is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College, a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences, and a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator. Professor Holmes leads a large multidisciplinary research group and network with solid international collaborations. She is the Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and AMR and the Centre of Antimicrobial Optimisation at Imperial College. She is an Associate Medical Director in the National Health Service, leading a multi-professional service, and a senior ID consultant.

In addition to her work in infectious diseases, she has served as a medical advisor to VSO, UK, and was involved in refugee health, health, and human rights. She was an expert member of the Governmental Advisory Committee on AMR and HCAI for nine years. Professor Holmes now chairs the Technical Advisory Group for the Fleming Fund. She sits on various WHO expert groups and committees and sits on or chairs numerous national and international scientific advisory boards, funding panels, and editorial boards.

Alison spent much of her life overseas. She attended Cambridge University as an undergraduate and then went to St George’s Medical School in London. She worked in communicable diseases and tropical medicine in Oxford, gained her DTM&H from London, and was awarded an ID fellowship to spend at Boston University, where her research was conducted in the Maxwell Finland Laboratories and where she gained an MPH in International Health from Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Holmes serves on the Finance Committee and the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

ISID Award – supported through a grant from MyCEB

Richard Alm

Douglas Scarsi

Stefan Kaufmann

Kyeng Mercy Tetuh

Tumani Corrah

Anna Levin

Alex Pym

William Wint

Sean Wasserman

Constance Walyaro

George Varghese

Rachel Thomson

Annapaola Rizzoli

Natalia Pshenichnaya

David Patterson

Eskild Petersen

Mubarak Mustafa

Clemens Müller

Mark Miller

Julia Maxwell

Ghassan Matar

Helena Maltezou

Neelika Malavige

Sadaf Lynes

Larry Lutwick

David Lewis

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Kyeng Mercy Tetuh

Keith Klugman

Gagandeep Kang

Kassim Jimale

Aamer Ikram

Alison Holmes

Robert Heyderman

Abdulrazaq Habib

Nicolette du Plessis

Scott Dowell

Shui Shan Lee

Sean Wasserman

Sally Roberts

Paul Tambyah

Linda MacKinnon

Elkin Bermudez

Aisha Abubakar

Afreenish Amir

Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Sipho Dlamini

Lucille Blumberg

Gonzalo Bearman

Arun Balajee

Patrick Baffuto

Kokou Alinon

Jaffar Al-Tawfiq