Tentative
Agenda
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)