The Break Dengue team is particularly proud of our work to co-create projects and ensure that they make a measurable impact on the ground in communities affected by dengue. Take a look at 2018 and a preview at what’s ahead for the new year.

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Building synergies, one cause at a time. The Synergist 2018 report

Advancing the eBarometer

The Break Dengue team is particularly proud of our work to co-create projects and ensure that they make a measurable impact on the ground in communities affected by dengue. Take a look at 2018 and a preview at what’s ahead for the new year.

In 2018 Break Dengue advanced the co-design of a groundbreaking step in dengue surveillance, the dengue eBarometer.

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Needs Analysis Survey

The Break Dengue team is particularly proud of our work to co-create projects and ensure that they make a measurable impact on the ground in communities affected by dengue. Take a look at 2018 and a preview at what’s ahead for the new year.

In 2018 we launched a needs analysis public consultation and impact measurement survey to understand what end-users of the eBarometer care about.

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World Dengue Day

The World Dengue Day campaign is being used to engage and activate citizens from endemic communities to take specific, meaningful action to fight dengue.

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Introduction

Message from the Programme Director

2018 was a year of momentum for the program. We’ve been working to advance multiple activities to build a dengue ecosystem and create the conditions for better dengue control.

The Break Dengue team is particularly proud of our work to co-create projects and ensure that they make a measurable impact on the ground in communities affected by dengue. Take a look at 2018 and a preview at what’s ahead for the new year.

Helena Harnik,
Programmes Director

Achievements

eBarometer

In 2018 Break Dengue advanced the co-design of a groundbreaking step in dengue surveillance, the dengue eBarometer. It is a close to real-time and actionable surveillance system, where AI meets citizens. It involves all dengue stakeholders - from citizens and HCPs in the field, to the developers of new technologies and public health authorities.

We have defined the Minimum Viable Product for the eBarometer with a plan for development and a tentative launch planned for February 2019.

Needs Analysis survey

The Break Dengue team is particularly proud of our work to co-create projects and ensure that they make a measurable impact on the ground in communities affected by dengue. Take a look at 2018 and a preview at what’s ahead for the new year.

In 2018 we launched a needs analysis public consultation and impact measurement survey to understand what end-users of the eBarometer care about and what real impact would mean to them in the context of dengue surveillance. This will also help inform the program’s future activities with our stakeholders and build a solution that is exactly targeted to their needs. The first step is a public survey that was sent to healthcare professionals, public health officials and members of the general public from dengue endemic countries. A dedicated survey was provided to Key Opinion Leaders including the participants of Dengue VOICE.

World Dengue Day campaign

Break Dengue and the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD) have joined forces to bring your voice to the 74th United Nations General Assembly with an Open Letter petitioning the UN to designate a World Dengue Day. The World Dengue Day campaign is being used to engage and activate citizens from endemic communities to take specific, meaningful action to fight dengue.

2019 Approach

Our efforts over the past year have laid the groundwork for 2019 by focusing on co-creating projects that our communities are asking for. Break Dengue seeks to objectively measure the impact of these projects and use these measurements to design and revise the projects to ensure their success.

Based on the results of our analysis of the needs of dengue-impacted communities, Break Dengue is focusing on the following strategic priorities in 2019:

  • Building capacity, by developing new partnerships across projects that introduce fresh expertise to the program and diversify the program’s funding.
  • Building and empowering the ecosystem. We continue to build the eBarometer through a co-creation process with partners. The objective is to launch the first proof-of-concept and a dashboardsfor users. An additional action point to further build the dengue ecosystem is delivering a petition to the United Nations to designate a World Dengue Day in order to engage and activate citizens from endemic communities across the globe to take specific, meaningful action to fight dengue.
  • Creating the conditions for new solutions by mobilizing communities and citizen scientists on the ground with projects in dengue-impacted communities.

“Our ultimate goal is to bring access to patients in a much more efficient way for new medicines.”

“I truly believe what we’ve seen so far is many individual initiative that have really not talked to each other, that sometimes duplicated the work and here with PFMD our ultimate goal is to bring access to patients in a much more efficient way for new medicines. PFMD can bring all these stakeholders together. First of all can map all the initiatives, secondly reach a consensus what the best instruments, the best framework would be, the best tools would be to really create meaningful patient engagement. And third, it can then develop a framework that would be applicable for all stakeholders and would ultimately again lead to much much better medicines to patients."

Tony Hoos

Head of Medical, Amgen Europe

“Our ultimate goal is to bring access to patients in a much more efficient way for new medicines.”

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Tony Hoos

Head of Medical, Amgen Europe

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The Break Dengue Team

Board members and The Synergist team

The Break Dengue Advisory Board consists of:

Marnix Van Loock

Associate Scientific Director at Janssen, Pharmaceutical

Bernadette Hendrickx

CEO and Founder SAHB Consulting

Lode Dewulf

Medical Coordinator, Doctors of the World (Medecins du Monde) Belgium

Dr. Lulu Bravo

Professor of Pediatric Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila

The Break Dengue Team consists of:

Nicholas Brooke

Executive Director

Jean-Christophe Capelle

Financial Director

Helena Harnik

Programmes Director

Martina O' Regan

Talent Development and Happiness Manager

Aaron Hoyles

Program Manager

Daniela Luzuriaga Ubilla

Project Coordinator

Roxana Radu

Communications Manager

Gulwish Ahmed

Communications Assistant

Bernadette Hendrickx

Scientific Advisor

Gary Finnegan

Chief Editor, Break Dengue

Our partners

They made all this possible

A total of 4 partners have decided to join forces to support and push forward our initiatives. This represents a major change in philosophy that has already started generating significant output on all projects.

DownloadAnnual Report 2018