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Avian Influenza - A Unique Opportunity for Public Health: Ilaria Capua (Italy)

• 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)
  

• 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)
  

• Rift Valley Fever: Adriano Duse (South Africa)
  
• Rabies: Henry Wilde (Thailand)
  
• Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever: Onder Ergonul (Turkey)
  

• 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)
  

• Antibiotics as a Limited Natural Resource: Ramanan Laxminarayan (USA)
  
• Balancing Human and Animal Health: Paula Fedorka-Cray (USA)
  
• A Worst Case Scenario: XDR TB: Eduardo Gotuzzo (Peru)
  

• 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)
• EpiSouth: Silvia Declich (Italy)
  
  

• Climate as a Driver of Emerging Diseases: Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum (Switzerland)
  
• Climate Change and Infectious Disease: Checking the Horse Before Hitching the Cart: Paul Reiter (France)
  
• Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases: Climate, Landscape and Transmission: Uriel Kitron (USA)
  

• Travelers as Sentinels Emerging Diseases: Elizabeth Barnett (USA)
  
• Diseases that Travel with Animals: Nina Marano (USA)
• Globalization and Human Migration: Martin Cetron (USA)
  

• The Pandemic Threat of Avian Influenza Viruses: Kanta Sabbarao (USA)
  
• Clinical Development of a Cell-culture (Vero) derived Whole Virus Candidate H5N1 Vaccine: Alexandra Loew-Baselli (Austria)
• Bluetongue Virus Vaccines: Solution or Part of the Problem?: James MacLachlan (USA)
  
• Dengue Vaccine Development: Harold Margolis (South Korea)
  

• Communication with the Public During an Outbreak: WHO's Best Practices: 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
• Communication via Social Networks: Philip Polgreen (USA)
  

• Detecting Influenza Activity Using Search Engine Query Data: Jeremy Ginsberg (USA)
  
• Intervention Strategies for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreaks: Juan Lubroth (Italy)
• Influenza Drug Resistance or Management Strategy: TBD