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The 4th Annual Meeting of the International Collaboration on Enteric Disease Burden of Illness Studies will be held as a satellite meeting to the Campylobacter Helicobacter and Related Organisms 2007 (CHRO 2007) meeting in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Registration:

You may register here. Please register by August 17th.

Location and Date:

Beurs World Trade Center
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
September 1-2, 2007

Times:

Saturday, September 1, 2007
9:00AM – 5:00PM

Sunday, September 2, 2007
9:00AM – 12:00PM

Accommodations:

For accommodations please visit the CHRO 2007 Conference site and select Accommodations from the left-hand menu.

Agenda:

September 1, 2007

8.30-9.00 REGISTRATION

9.00-9.30 Welcome, Introductions and Update on Int’l Collaboration (Elaine Scallan, USA)

9.30-10.15 WHO Strategy to Estimate the Global Burden (Tanja Kuchenmüller, WHO)

10.15-10.30 BREAK

10.30-11.30 Med-Vet-Net Project to Estimate the Burden of Disease Using Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) (Arie Havelaar, the Netherlands)

11.30-12.30 Updates on Burden of Illness Studies

• New Zealand ( Rob Lake)
• Japan (Kunihiro Kubota )
• Democratic Republic of Congo(Nyarukweba Zozo)

LUNCH

13:30-14.00 Updates on Burden of Illness Studies (continued)

• UK and Ireland(Sarah O’Brien)
• Caribbean (Lisa Indar)
• United States (Elaine Scallan)

14.00-14.30 Trends in mortality associated with new norovirus variants (Liselotte van Asten, the Netherlands )

14:30-15.00 Lessons Learned from an International Comparison of Sporadic Case-Control Studies (Katie Fullerton, Australia)

15.00-.15:30 BREAK

15.30-17.00 Governance

• Strategic Direction of Group
• Steering Committee Discussion

19:00 DINNER

September 2, 2007

9.00-9.45 New ZealandCampylobacter Strategy (Donald Campbell, New Zealand)

9.45-10.30 Use of Seroepidemiology to Estimate the Burden of Salmonella and Campylobacter ( Gerhard Falkenhorst, Denmark)

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.30 International Campylobacter Laboratory Survey

• United States and New Zealand (Elizabeth Ailes, USA)
• Canada (Kathryn Dore and Lai King Ng)

11.30-12.30 Burden of Guillain-Barre Syndrome

• GBS in Mexico (Irving Nachamkin, USA)
• Estimating the burden of GBS in the UK(Sarah O’Brien)
• Estimating the burden of GBS in the United States(Elaine Scallan)

12.30-13.00 Discussion: Potential Projects to Address the Burden of Campylobacter and GBS

13.00-13.30 Summary and Meeting Action Items

13:30 CLOSE OF MEETING

Background:

The International Collaboration on Enteric Disease Burden of Illness Studies was established in 2004. The purpose of the collaboration is to facilitate communication between individuals who have conducted or are interested in conducting studies to determine the burden of enteric or Foodborne disease.

We offer a number of forums for sharing information and technical advice on the design, implementation and analysis of ‘burden of illness’ studies, including a moderated list-serv, quarterly conference calls and an annual meeting. Working groups have been established to facilitate data sharing on a number of collaborative projects which aim to improve our understanding of the global burden of disease and contribute to global burden of enteric disease estimates.

Contact Information:

Please contact Cheraé Robinson at CRobinson@cdc.gov for additional information.