International Workshop on Influenza Pandemic Preparedness and Control
Beijing, August 2006
(All presentations are available upon request from the IRGC Secretariat.)
Session 1: Current Policy on Influenza Pandemic Control
Strategic Preparedness for Potential Influenza Pandemic Originating in Developing Countries (Yuelong Shu, Director, Chinese National Influenza Center, Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China)
Current Global Approaches for Addressing Pandemic Influenza (Keiji Fukuda, Coordinator, Global Influenza Programme, Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response, World Health Organization, Switzerland)
- Preparedness for Influenza Pandemic in Hong Kong (Helen Tang, Head, Emergency Response and Information Branch, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong)
Session 2: Current Research of Avian Influenza Pandemic
Preparedness: Public Health Laboratory Response (Lim Wei-ling Wilina, Head, Public Health Laboratory Services Branch, Virology Division, Public Health Laboratory Center, Hong Kong)
Current Research on Avian Influenza (Paul Chan, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Epidemiologic Characteristics of Human Cases Infected by Avian Influenza (Hongjie Yu, Head of Respiratory Disease Control Office, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China)
Development and Clinical Study of H5N1 Vaccine in Japan (Masato Tashiro, Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Surveillance and Research on Influenza, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan)
Session 3 : The Present Risk of Pandemic Influenza and Strategies for Prevention and Control
U.S. Strategies for Pandemic Influenza Prevention and Control (James W. LeDuc, Director, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.)
- Planning for the next Influenza Pandemic - Approaches to Analysis (Roy M. Anderson, Professor, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, UK)
- How do We Effectively Manage Risks over the Long-Term Horizon? (Henry A. Anderson, Chief Medical Officer, Wisconsin Division of Public Health, US)
The Social Dynamics of Response (Hadi Dowlatabadi, Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics and Global Change, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada)
One World - One Health: Lesson from Birds and other wild Fauna (William B. Karesh, Director, Field Veterinary Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, US)
Measures to Control Avian Influenza in Poultry and Wild Birds - Consequences for Humans and Animals? (Lukas Perler, Head, Technical Advice Animal Health, Swiss Federal Veterinary Office, Switzerland)
Control of Pandemic Influenza at the State and Local Level: A View from California (George W. Rutherford, Director, Institute for Global Health, University of California, San Francisco, US)
Thinking the Unthinkable: Psychological Aspects of the Fear of Pandemics (Emilio Mordini, Director, Professor of Bioethics, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Italy)
A Perspective from the Private Sector (Stephen Kramer, Swiss Reinsurance Company, London)