Speakers Presentations 2017

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

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