MSF Scientific Days Asia 2025 is organised in partnership with Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo (UCFM) and Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Date: September 19, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM IST/ 3:00 AM UTC Onwards
Location: Galadari Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka
The conference will also be live-streamed for online audiences.
September 19, 2025 (Tuesday)
08:30 am – 09:00 am | Registration
09:00 am – 9:15 am | Lamp Lighting Ceremony and Exhibition Opening
09:15 am – 09:45 am | Opening Remarks
MSF and Collaborative partners
09:45 am – 10:15 am | Keynote Address
10:15 am – 10:30 am |Tea Break
10:15 am – 11:35 am | Session 1: Beyond Pills – Advancing Quality Care through Compassion, Community, and Context
Healing Through Humour: Evaluating the Impact of Medical Clowning on Patient Wellbeing in Indian Public Hospitals (Exhibition-IND) P. Agarwal, Clownsers, Mumbai, India and MSF SA, Mumbai, India Quality of Care in Fragile, Conflict-Affected Settings: An analysis of Quality of Care delivery in two Hospitals in Yemen A.W. Mullahzada, MSF Operational Centre Amsterdam,The Netherlands Intersection of political determinants of health and community participation; A case study of public health model of palliative care E. Nianglianching, Jindal school of public health and human development, Sonipat, India “I have to put myself in their place”: Exploring empathy in humanitarian palliative care through stories from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (Exhibition-BAN)
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Chair: TBD
11:35 am – 12:35 pm |Session 2: Crisis to Resilience: Adaptations amidst Emergencies
Panel Discussion
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12:35 pm – 01:30 pm | Lunch Break
01:30 pm – 02:30 pm |Session 3: Reaching the Unreached; Community Centered Healthcare Delivery Solutions
Panel Discussion A Photovoice Exploration of Stigma in Women with Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in Mumbai (Exhibition-IND)
Investigating multilevel social determinants of health among adolescents and young people: Result from the Mombasa Youth Study D. Callander, MSF Mombasa Project, Mombasa, Kenya and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Mapping the Last Mile: Micro-Stratification for Sustained Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination in Bangladesh
Transforming Participation into Power: Community Engagement as a Catalyst for Adolescent-Centered Health in Mbare, Zimbabwe
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Chair: TBD
02:30 pm – 02:45 pm | Tea Break
2:45 pm – 3:35 pm | Session 4: Empowering the Unsung Champions of Care: Way Forward in Health Workforce Management
Abstract Presentation Sanity amidst chaos: The curious case of the ‘Áragalaya’ street medics (Exhibition) U. Fernando, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden A Low-Cost Psychosocial Support system to Improve Healthcare Workforce Wellbeing in a Post-Crisis Rural Hospital Setting in Sri Lanka”
From Burden to Wellbeing through The Capability Approach: Identifying Capabilities for Mental Health Well-Being of Long-Term Caregivers
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03:35 pm – 04:0 pm | Closing Remarks
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Disclaimer: The agenda is subject to change.
