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IMED 2009 • Vienna, Austria • February 13–16, 2009

Preliminary Program (subject to changes)
Friday, February 13, 2009
14:00
Welcome
14:30-16:00
 Plenary Symposium:
 
Implementing One World One Health
  • Tracking Disease in Wild Animals: William Karesh (USA)
  • OIE Activities for the Global Improvement of Animal Health and their Benefits for Public Health: Bernard Vallat (France)
  • When Animal Diseases Strike Humans: Pierre Formenty (Switzerland)
16:30-17:15
Plenary Lecture:
Ilaria CAPUA: Avian Influenza-A Unique Opportunity for Public Health
17:30-19:00
 Welcome Reception

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Saturday, February 14, 2009
08:30-10:30
Parallel Sessions:
Session 1: Vector-borne Viruses in the 21st Century
  • Dengue Transmission and Control: Mike Nathan (Switzerland)
  • Chikungunya Outbreaks: Remi Charrel (France)
  • Urbanization of Yellow Fever: Thomas Monath (USA)
  • Zika Virus on Yap Island: Ned Hayes (Spain)
Session 2: ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1: New Strategies in Emerging Disease Surveillance
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45
Plenary Lecture:
Hans ROSLING: Dynamic Trends in Global Health
11:45-12:45
 Poster Presentations
12:45-14:30
 Lunch Break (optional)
14:30-16:00
 Parallel Sessions:
Session 1: Emerging Zoonoses
  • Rift Valley Fever: Adriano Duse (South Africa)
  • Rabies: Henry Wilde (Thailand)
  • Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Turkey: Onder Ergonul (Turkey)
Session 2: New Food-borne Threats
  • Nipah Virus: Stephen Luby (Bangladesh)
  • Hepatitis E: Chong-Gee Teo (USA)
  • Orally-acquired Chagas Disease. An Emerging Urban Threat in the Americas: Jaime Torres (Venezuela)
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00
 Parallel Sessions:
 
Session 1: Antibiotic Resistance: The Future is Now
  • Antibiotics as a Limited Natural Resources: Ramanan Laxminarayan (USA)
  • Balancing Human and Animal Health: Paula Fedorka-Cray (USA)
  • A Worst Case Scenario: XDR TB: Eduardo Gotuzzo (Peru)
Session 2: ORAL PRESENTATIONS 2: Hot Topics in Emerging Diseases
19:30-21:00 Mayor's Reception (City Hall)

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Sunday, February 15, 2009
08:30-10:30
Parallel Sessions:
 
Session 1: Surveillance Systems in Practice
  • MECIDS: Cross Border Surveillance and Response in the Middle East: Alex Leventhal (Israel)
  • CaribVET: Animal Disease Surveillance in the Caribbean: Thierry Lefrancois (Guadeloupe)
  • Healthmap/ProMED: John Brownstein (USA)
  • Epi South: Silvia Declich (Italy)
Session 2: ORAL PRESENTATIONS 3: Vector-borne Diseases in Humans and Other Animals
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45
Plenary lecture:
Howard MARKEL: When Germs Travel: Social, Economic, Political and Cultural Aspects of Contagious Crises Across Time
11:45-12:45
 Poster Presentations
12:45-14:30
 Lunch Break (optional)
14:30-16:00
Parallel Sessions:
 
Session 1: Feeling the Heat: Climate Change and Emerging Diseases
  • Climate Change and Infectious Disease: Checking the Horse before Hitching the Cart: Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum (Switzerland)
  • Climate as a Driver of Emerging Diseases: Paul Reiter (France)
  • Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases: Climate, Landscape and Transmission: Uriel Kitron (USA)
Session 2: Global Movements of Humans, Animals and Diseases
  • Travelers as Sentinels of Emerging Diseases: Elizabeth Barnett (USA)
  • Diseases that Travel with Animals: Nina Marano (USA)
  • Globalization and Human Migration: Martin Cetron (USA)
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00
Parallel Sessions:
 
Session 1: Avian/Pandemic Influenza
  • Detecting Influenza Activity Search Engine Query Data: Jeremy Ginsberg (USA)
  • Intervention Strategies for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreaks: Jua Lubroth (Italy)
  • Human Flu Outbreak Management Strategies: TBD
Session 2: ORAL PRESENTATIONS 4: Zoonoses and Animal Health

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Monday, February 16, 2009
08:30-10:30
Parallel Sessions:
 
Session 1: Communicating Disease Risks to the Public
  • WHO's Outbreak Communication: Guidance for Communicating During Public Health Emergencies: Dick Thompson (Switzerland)
  • Social Aspects of Risk Perception: Lessons from the Chikungunya Outbreak in la Réunion: Michel Setbon (France)
  • The Role of the Media: TBD
  • Communicating via Social Networks: Philip Polgreen (USA)
Session 2: Vaccines and Reemerging Diseases
  • The Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses: Kanta Subbarao (USA)
  • Vero Cell Derived Whole Virus H5N1 Vaccine: Safety, Prime-boost and Cross-neutralization Data: Alexandra Loew-Baselli (Austria)
  • Bluetongue Vaccine: James MacLachlan (USA)
  • Dengue Vaccine Development: Harold Margolis (South Korea)
11:00-11:45

Plenary lecture:
Ian LIPKIN: Microbe Hunting in the 21st Century



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