conference programme

CONCEPT PROGRAMME IECID2015
Sunday 22 March 2015
16.00 – 20.00
REGISTRATION
18.00 – 19.00
Welcome reception
Monday 23 March 2015
7.45 – 8.15
REGISTRATION
8.15 – 8.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
8.30 – 10.30
Single session plenary 1: Effect of climate changes on vector-borne diseases
Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Simon Hay, University of Oxford, UK
Filipe Dantas-Torres, Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
3 short talks
10.30 – 11.00
COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 13.00
Single session plenary 2: Future prospect of emerging and neglected diseases
David Molyneux, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Jakob Zinsstag, Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland
4 short talks
13.00 – 14.00
LUNCH (with poster viewing)
14.00 – 16.00
Single session plenary 3: Effect of climate changes on biodiversity and conservation
Kevin Lafferty, US Geological Survey, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Susan Kutz, University of Calgary, Canada
4 short talks
16.00 – 16.30
COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 18.30
Single session plenary 4: Effect of climate changes on water-borne and food-borne diseases
Masahiro Hashizume, Nagasaki University, Japan
Santiago Mas-Coma, University of Valencia, Spain
4 short talks
18.30 – 20.30
Poster session
Cempra workshop: Adaptation of bacteria to the changing environment: A focus on resistance, increased
virulence and the shifting microbiome
20.30 – 22.30
On own for dinner and recreation
Tuesday 24 March 2015
08.00 – 08.30
REGISTRATION
08.30 – 10.30
Single session plenary 5: Effect of travel, trade and globalization on infectious diseases
Kamran Khan, University of Toronto, Canada
Andrew Tatem, University of Southampton, UK
4 short talks
10.30 – 11.00
COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 13.00
Single session plenary 6: Effect of growth in livestock consumption and production on infectious diseases
Ellen Silbergeld, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Delia Grace, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
4 short talks
13.00 – 14.00
LUNCH (with poster viewing)
14.00 – 16.00
Single session plenary 7: Effect of urbanization, socio-demographic and economic changes
Colin Butler, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
Andrew Thompson, Murdoch University, Australia
4 short talks
16.00 – 16.30
COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 18.30
Poster session
19.00 – 22.30
Optional offsite conference dinner
Wednesday 25 March 2015
08.00 – 08.30
REGISTRATION
08.30 – 10.30
Single session plenary 8: Modelling and prediction
Joacim Rocklov, Umea University, Sweden
Xavier Rodo, Institut Català de Ciències del Clima, Barcelona, Spain
David L Smith, University of Oxford, UK
2 short talks
10.30 – 11.00
COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 13.00
Single session plenary 9: Policy and mechanisms of intervention
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Jan Semenza, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
4 short talks
13.00 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 16.00
Single session plenary 10: Assessing the health impacts of environmental changes in eastern Africa - spatial
modelling tools for integrated risk assessment (EUFP7 HEALTHY FUTURES sponsored)
David Taylor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
4 short talks
16.00 – 16.15
Closing remarks
16.15
Conference ends