→ Who owns this website?
This website is maintained by the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development. Inspired by debates at the 2008 Leprosy Congress a new theme was started: promote surveys which help improve the efficacy of hands-on leprosy control worldwide.
As there are trendier topics than a leprosy-free world it is crucial to link up existing or emerging efforts. The Foundation is prepared to play this facilitation role and will also be able to add some missing elements.
In this spirit this website is owned by everybody who wants to contribute to innovative leprosy control studies.
→ How can you contribute?
Just let others in the field know about your survey projects and ideas – by using the comment function or by emailing content to be included. Or contact us to point at missing pieces in the jigsaw of know-how on fighting leprosy successfully.
→ What is a successful study?
First and foremost this is an open question which this website wants to help be discussed. However, in broad terms it seems to be clear that creating new insights and empirical knowledge is a success if it leads to an earlier detection (and treatment) of leprosy cases. Studies merely with a medical / epidemiological focus might be blind to opportunities of influencing health system or patient related parameters, being revealed by approaches which are based on social sciences, too.
