Speakers Presentations 2017
Presentations in Plenary
Session 1: Emerging Disease Threats and their Global Drivers
- Professor Björn Olsen, Uppsala University: Pandemics – The inevitable consequence of human predatory behaviour”
- Dr. Peter Daszak, President, Eco Health Alliance, USA: The beginning of an end of the pandemic era
- Professor Maria Lapinski, Department of Communication and Michigan AgBio Research, Michigan State University, USA: Connecting social science research to One Health challenges
Session 2. Zoonotic Disease Threats; Prevent, Detect, Respond
- Professor Eric Fèvre, Veterinary Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, ILRI
- Professor Paul Richards, University of Wageningen, Netherlands, Njala University, Sierra Leone: Three lessons for One Health from the Upper West African Ebola epidemic
- Dr. Beth Ann Griswold Coller, Executive Director, Global Clinical Development, Merck and Company, Inc: Development of an ebola vaccine in the midst of an unprecedented epidemic
Session 3. Making One Health Work
- Professor Bassirou Bonfoh, Director, CSRS, ASPIRE –ONE Afrique Constortium: One Health governance in West Africa
- Dr Pierre Formenty, DVM, Team Lead in Vulnerable Settings Unit, Infectious Hazard Management Department, WHO Global outbreak response and R&D: A country based strategy and One Health framework (Presentation currently unavailable)
- Dr. Timothy Bouley, Climate and Health Specialist, World Bank, USA: World Banking on One Health
- Dr. Johanna Takkinen, DVM, Head of Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Programme, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC: Making One Health work – Experiences with food- and waterborne diseases in EU/EEA
Session 4. Lessons learnt, future priorities
- Professor Hannah Akuffo, Senior advisor, SIDA: Whose priorities count? Empowering scientific capacities for locally relevant and sustainable solutions
- Dr.Charlie Weller, Head of the Vaccine Programme at the Wellcome Trust A world better prepared to respond to emerging infectious disease outbreaks
- Dr.Jim Gallarda, Senior Program Officer, Diagnostic, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Where do we go from here? Two futures
Presentations in Workshops
Workshop A: Zoonotic diseases in livestock - mitigating risk behaviour
- Dr. Elisabeth Lindahl Rajala, SLU Global: Brucella in Tajikistan
- Dr. Barbara Wieland, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya - Experiences from rural settings, including gender dimensions
- Professor Eric Fevre, Institute of Infection and Global Health (IGH), University of Liverpool University of Glasgow, International Livestock Research Institute. Urban Perspectives on Zoonotic Diseases in Livestock
- Workshop B: Empowered and resilient communities - a need for new perspectives
- Professor Paul Richards, University of Wageningen,Netherlands, Njala University, Sierra Leone, Ebola 2014- Problems of community engagement
- Dr. Anders Nordström, Ambassador of Global Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, The building blocks of the Ebola response
- Dr. Samson Haumba, UCR University Research, LLC Swaziland: Empowered and Resilient Communities - a need for new perspectives
Workshop C: A roadmap for effective diagnostics to combat global infectious disease
- Dr. Sabine Dittrich, Head of Fever, FIND Diagnostics: Diagnostic needs to address emerging health threats like AMR
- Dr. Stephan Jäger, PHC Partnering Director, Roche Diagnostics GmbH: Infectious disease diagnostics
- Jim Gallarda, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: (Presentation currently unavailable)
Workshop D: New medicines and vaccines - what do we need to monitor their safety in emergency situations
- Professor Nils Feltelius, Medical Product Agency, Sweden - The Swedish experience of the 2009-2010 pandemic flu vaccination
- Dr. Wiltshire Johnson, Director, Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone - A developing country experience - theories, facts and realities
Workshop E: Innovation and big data in health surveillance
- Professor Jan Semenza, Acting Head of Section Scientific Assessment. ECDC - Monitoring Drivers of Infectious Diseases
- Dr.Kun Maggie Hu, Research Manager, Public Health and Food Safety, IBM Academy of Technology -Innovation and Big Data in Health Surveillance - Review past, plan for future
Workshop F: Whose priorities count? Empowering Scientific Capacities for locally-relevant and sustainable solutions
- Professor Bassirou Bonfoh, Director, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques: Capacity enhancing for impacts on health priorities in Africa
- Dr. Ferdinand Moyi Okwaro, Post Doctoral Fellow, Oslo University: Whose priority counts? Scientific capacities to locally relevant solutions (Presentation currently unavailable)
Workshop G: Drivers and constraints in modern typing tools for detection of food-borne infections
- Dr. Johanna Takkinen, Head of Disease Programme Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses, ECDC: Drivers and Constraints – application of molecular typing in surveillance of foodborne diseases in EU/EEA