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MISMS 3rd Regional Meeting and Workshop

following the 3rd European Influenza Conference (Vilamoura - Portugal)
The objectives of the regional meeting and workshop are as follows:
  1) To review the epidemiology of influenza in temperate and tropical climates and outline the achievements of MISMS through presentations of influenza mortality models, transmission dynamics research, genomic studies, and vaccination impact studies.
  2) To demonstrate the utility of secondary source data to study the epidemiology of influenza.
  3) To work with current collaborators and establish new collaborations for bi-national and multinational studies.
  4) To communicate findings to the scientific community and policy makers.
  5) To analyze data during a hands-on workshop on methodologies for influenza studies, including time-series statistical analysis, vaccine effectiveness, molecular epidemiology and genomics.

 

Tentative Agenda

Morning Afternoon

17th (Wednesday)

(Rooms Gemini II and III, Tivoli Marinotel)

 

 

Session I. Overview of MISMS: goals and achievements

Session II. Influenza Epidemiology

Session III. Evolutionary dynamics of human and avian influenza

 

18th (Thursday)

(Room Gemini III, Tivoli Marinotel)

Introductory Workshop for epidemiologists and virologists

- open to all -

 

Advanced workshop for epidemiologists and virologists

 

19th (Friday)

(Room Gemini III, Tivoli Marinotel)

Advanced workshop for epidemiologists and virologists

 

20th (Saturday)

(Room Gemini III, Tivoli Marinotel)

 

Day I- General Meeting (September 17th, 2008)

 

Session I. Welcome (2:00-2:25pm)

2:00-2:25  Overview of MISMS: goals and achievement (Mark Miller, MD, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA)

Session II. Influenza Epidemiology (2:25-4:30pm)

 

2:25-2:50  Transmission and mortality burden of influenza in the Tropics (Wladimir J. Alonso, PhD, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA)

 

2:50-3:15  The 1918-19 pandemic in Denmark: implications for pandemic preparedness (Lone Simonsen, PhD, George Washington University, USA)

 

3:15-3:40  Influenza mortality burden and vaccination policy in Italy (Caterina Rizzo, MD, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, CNESPS, Infectious Disease Unit Viale Regina Elena, Italy)

 

3:40-4:05  Multinational studies of epidemic and pandemic influenza (Cécile Viboud, PhD, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA)

 

 

4:05-4:30 Coffee break

 

Session III. Evolutionary dynamics of human and avian influenza (4:30-5:45pm)

4:30-4:55  An overview of the evolutionary dynamics of human influenza A (Martha Nelson, PhD, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University & Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA)

 

4:55-5:20  Influenza antigenic and genetic evolution (Colin Russell, PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

 

5:20-5:45  Molecular epidemiology of higlhy pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Africa (Giovanni Cattoli, DVM, PhD, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, FAO/OIE and National Reference Laboratory for Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza, Italy)

 

Day II-IV (September 18th-20th, 2008):

Workshop

Workshops for epidemiologists and virologists led by the US National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center

Following the meeting, a workshop describing the methodology to evaluate vital statistics, virological, genomic and economic data to describe influenza disease burden and inform policy will be held. All are invited to attend the first half day session which will follow the presentation portion of the meeting.

The remaining two and a half days will consist of workshops designed for epidemiologists/virologists and policy-makers who are interested in evaluating datasets which may be brought to the meeting for further analysis. Workshops will concentrate on methodologies to evaluate time-series data for regional or national analysis of influenza disease burden, assessments of control, and evolution of influenza viruses. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and apply tools to analyze national datasets and formulate further collaborations on bi-national and multinational studies. Please note that participation in the Thursday PM, Friday and Saturday workshop sessions will be limited. Participation will be by invitation only and any request for invitation (via email) should include a description of available datasets that participants wish to further analyze.

It is highly recommended, but not required, that participants in the workshop bring:
- a laptop with some type of statistical software (SAS recommended)
- an influenza dataset (vital statistics data, influenza isolates sequences and/or data, and vaccine coverage)

Individuals who attend the workshop will have the opportunity to learn about:
- time series analysis
- spatial / temporal relationships
- influenza genomics tools
- data management issues
- SAS / Stata code - go home with your own programs
- strategies for evaluating vaccine benefits in a country using mortality data
- and more

The MISMS protocol is available upon request. Interested individuals who do not have a laptop, statistical software, and/or influenza datasets are encouraged to contact Fogarty International Center to discuss the available options.

Please contact MISMS at ficmisms@mail.nih.gov to request a MISMS protocol or if you have any further inquiries about the meeting.

 

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