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Infectious Diseases: Challenges, Threats and Responsibilities

June 28, 2002

EMBL/EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany
8-9 Nov 2002

Friday 8 November 2002

08:45 - 09:00 Welcome address by Frank Gannon, Executive Director of EMBO.

09:00 - 12:30 Session I
North - South: The political economy of affliction Submit questions and topics
Chair, Rainer Sauerborn, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany

Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
"Infections and Inequalities: Examples from Haiti and Peru"

Marcel Tanner, Director, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
"New challenges for research partnerships to alleviate disease burden and poverty"

Didier Fassin, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, France
"The embodiment of inequality: Political anthropology of AIDS in Southern Africa"

Carlos Morel, Tropical Disease Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
"Neglected Diseases, Underfunded Research, Poor Health Interventions: Can We Change This Reality?"

14:00 - 17:30 Session II
The Big killers: past, present and future Submit questions and topics
Chair, Michel Glauser, Medical Faculty, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Robin A. Weis, University College, London, UK
"HIV and AIDS"

Paul van Helden, Stellenbosch University Tygerberg, South Africa
"Tuberculosis: an old disease with new threats"

Janet Hemingway, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
"Past problems and future opportunities for malaria and dengue control"

Laurie Garrett, a writer and a journalist, Newsday, New York, USA
The Gaps: wealth, life expectancy, public health infrastructure and the big global killers"

17:30 - 19:00 Panel discussion
Chair, Johannes Sommerfeld, Social, Economic and Behavioural Research, WHO-TDR", Geneva, Switzerland

Ruth M. Ruprecht, Harvard Medical School; Rachel Snow, Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Heidelberg University; Yeya T. Touré, TDR, WHO; Hermann Bujard, Centre for Molecular Biology, Heidelberg University

Saturday 9 November 2002
09:00 - 12:30 Session III
Consequences and responses Submit questions and topics
Chair, Hans-Georg Kraeusslich, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany

Peter N. Goodfellow, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Essex, UK
"The Barriers to the Production of New Antibiotics"

Helena Maekelae, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
"Knowledge - a prime weapon of defense against infectious diseases"

Robert Ridley, Product Research and Development, TDR, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
"Public Private Product R&D Partnerships"

Yiming Shao, National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, Beijing, China
"The response to the challenge of infectious diseases control in China: Shift from public domination to the public and private partnership"

14:00 - 15:30 Panel Discussion
Chair, Denise P. Barlow, Institute for Molecular Biology, Salzburg, Austria
Michael Boutros, Harvard Medical School; Arachu Castro, Harvard Medical School; Patricia Kahn, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; Helen Epstein, independent writer

15:30 - 15:45 EMBO award for communication in the life sciences

16:15 - 18:45 Session IV
Biological weapons: uses and abuses of infectious agents Submit questions and topics
Chair, Friedrich Frischknecht, Laboratoire de Biologie et Genetique du Paludisme, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

George Poste, Health Technology Networks, Gilbertsville, PA, USA
"Biotechnology, Bioterrorism and Biosecurity"

Volker Beck, Advisor to the German Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
"Advances in Science and Technology - Risks, Perspectives and Responsibilities"

John Walker, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, UK
"The role of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in combating infectious disease"

Jan van Aken, Sunshine Projekts, Hamburg, Germany
"The dual-use problem in the biomedical sciences"

18:45 - 19:00 Closing remarks
Fotis Kafatos, Director General of EMBL

Organized by:

Halldor Stefansson

Invited Speakers:

Volker Beck
Paul Farmer
Didier Fassin
Laurie Garrett
Peter N. Goodfellow
Paul van Helden
Janet Hemingway
Hlena Maekelae
Carlos Morel
George Poste
Robert Ridley
Marcel Tanner
John Walker
Robin A. Weiss
Yiming Shao
Jan van Aken
Yeya T. Touré
Rachel Snow
Johannes Sommerfeld
Ruth M. Ruprecht
Patricia Kahn
Michael Boutros
Arachu Castro

Deadline for Abstracts:

none

Registration:

online at http://www-db.embl-heidelberg.de/jss/servlet/de.embl.bk.registration.SciSoc02

cost: Eur 50

E-mail:

conferences@embl-heidelberg.de

Posted by:

Sylke Helbing

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