DAY 1: JUNE 25, 2008
9:30- 10:15 a.m. Registration and Check-in
All participants must check in at the security desk
SESSION I: CHARGE AND STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
10:15 – 10:25 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Marguerite Pappaioanou, Committee co-chair
Gerald Keusch, Committee co-chair
10:25 – 10:45 a.m. Charge to the Committee from the sponsor
Dennis Carroll and Murray Trostle, USAID (confirmed)
10:45 – 11:15 a.m. Keynote Presentation
Convergence of forces behind emerging and reemerging zoonoses, and future trends in zoonoses
Tracee Treadwell, CDC (confirmed)
11:15 – 12:00 Panel Discussion: The need for a global and sustainable surveillance system for zoonoses, and roles of various international organizations
Moderator: Gerald Keusch, Committee co-chair
Panelists
Nancy Cox, CDC (confirmed)
Stephane de La Rocque, FAO (confirmed)
Marlo Libel, Pan American Health Organization, on behalf of David Heymann, WHO (confirmed; Sylvain Aldighieri to standby for Dr. Libel)
Alejandro Thiermann, OIE (confirmed)
Tracee Treadwell, CDC (confirmed)
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch on your own
(speakers will have meal vouchers, committee to meet in closed session)
SESSION II: ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING ZOONOSES
(Moderator: Mark Woolhouse, committee member)
Animal Health Surveillance Systems
*This panel will discuss the varying methodologies used to conduct surveillance in different animal populations including: poultry and livestock (for consumption), wildlife and exotic animals, marine mammals, and bushmeat. The presenters should:
- Briefly describe the surveillance activities/methodologies and current funding levels, special challenges to conducting surveillance in these different populations
- Discuss the reliability/validity (including sensitivity and specificity) of data obtained from these surveillance systems, timeliness, access to data—how the data are shared/disseminated, what it would take to achieve sustainability over many years
- Highlight the major gaps and challenges
The session will focus on international surveillance initiatives, rather than U.S.-focused programs.
1:00– 1:15 pm Global Early Warning System (GLEWS) and Transboundary disease surveillance program
Stephane de La Rocque, FAO (confirmed)
1:15 -1:30 pm OIE standards for identifying/diagnosing diseases, diagnostic confirmation, data collection and reporting from countries, network of reference laboratories, relationships with Chief Veterinary Officers—committee work, food safety (Codex Alimentarius)
Alejandro Thiermann, OIE (confirmed)
1:30 – 2:00 pm Surveillance and outbreak investigation of wildlife – terrestrial and marine animals, birds, Wildlife Disease Information Node
· Wildlife Disease Information Node – Joshua Dein (on NBII), USGS National Wildlife Health Center (confirmed)
· Outbreak investigation – Scott Wright, USGS National Wildlife Health Center (confirmed)
2:00 – 2:15 p.m. Ebola surveillance in non-human primates
Pierre Rollin, CDC (confirmed)
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Surveillance of bats
Peter Daszak (for Jon Epstein), Consortium for Conservation Medicine (confirmed)
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. Surveillance of bushmeat and exotic animal consumption & GAINS
William Karesh, Wildlife Conservation Society (confirmed)
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Surveillance of Infectious Diseases in Companion Animals
Larry Glickman, Purdue University (confirmed)
3:00 – 3:45 pm Panel Discussion on active surveillance systems with presenters from Session II
3:45 – 4:00 pm Break
SESSION III: EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS FOR ZOONOTIC DISEASES IN HUMANS
(Moderator: Mo Salman, committee member)
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. *Panelists will provide a brief description of the early warning system, discuss what works well in their systems, and more importantly, identify the gaps and challenges.
Marlo Libel, PAHO (confirmed); Sylvain Aldighieri to standby for Dr. Libel
- Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN)
- Global Outbreak Awareness and Response Network (GOARN)
Marlo Libel, PAHO (confirmed); Sylvain Aldighieri to standby for Dr. Libel
Peter Cowen, North Carolina State University (confirmed)
- U.S. Department of Defense, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System DoD-GEIS
Tracy DuVernoy, U.S. Department of Defense (confirmed)
Marc Fischer, CDC (via teleconfere
- Emerging Infections Network (IDSA)
Philip Polgreen , University of Iowa (confirmed)
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Panel Discussion on early warning systems with presenters from Session III
6:00 p.m. Adjourn for the day
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Committee Working Dinner
DAY 2: JUNE 26, 2008
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Registration and Check-in
All participants must check in at the security desk
8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Recap of Day 1 & Overview of Day 2 of the Workshop
Gerald Keusch & Marguerite Pappaioanou, Committee co-chairs
SESSION IV: LABORATORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CAPACITY
(Moderator: Terry McElwain, committee member)
Panel members will have 15 minutes each to discuss the successes and challenges in developing laboratory and epidemiological capacity in resource constrained countries.
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Broad view of veterinary / agricultural laboratory capacity in resource-constrained countries (clinical and field training, BSL-3 labs, biosecurity issues)
James Pearson, former director of National Veterinary Services Lab (retired) (confirmed)
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Reference lab perspective – experience serving as an OIE reference laboratory and providing technical assistance and training to countries in Africa on Avian Influenza; International policies for sharing specimens and resources and lab data
Ilaria Capua, OIE (confirmed)
9:15 – 9:30 a.m. Training and deployment of assays in other countries and standardization of assays worldwide
Barbara Martin, Coordinator for the U.S. National Animal Health Laboratory Network (confirmed)
9:30 – 9:45 a.m. Experience and challenges in establishing and sustained operation of laboratories in Tanzania with high quality assurance
Mmeta Grasford Yongolo, virology department of the Animal Diseases Research Institute (confirmed)
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Integrated emerging infectious disease surveillance in Nairobi, Kenya
Robert Breiman, CDC International Emerging Infectious Diseases Program (confirmed)
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Clinical laboratory and epidemiological field training in SE Asia
Jeremy Farrar, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (confirmed)
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Panel Discussion on laboratory and epidemiological capacity with presenters from Session IV
12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch on your own
(speakers will have meal vouchers, committee to meet in closed session)
SESSION V: FACILITATING INFORMATION EXCHANGE, IMPROVING COMMUNICATION, AND IMPROVING POLICIES
1:15 – 2:30 Facilitating information exchange, improving communication, and improving policies
· Moderated Panel Discussion (20-min):
Panelists: Ilaria Capua, OIE; Stephane de La Rocque, FAO; Marlo Libel, WHO/PAHO; Sylvia Robles, World Bank; Alejandro Thiermann, OIE
(Gerald Keusch, moderator)
o International policies for sharing specimens and resources and lab and epidemiological data (speakers from WHO/PAHO and OIE); Indonesia incident
o Communication and interaction in outbreak investigations (speakers from WHO/PAHO, OIE, FAO)
o Economic and political constraints (OIE, World Bank)
o Others?
· General Open Discussion (25-min)
2:30 – 3:00 Break
SESSION VI: DEVELOPING A GLOBAL AND SUSTAINABLE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
3:00 – 5:15 Moderated General Discussion: Developing global sustainable surveillance and response to emerging zoonoses
(Gerald Keusch and Marguerite Pappaioanou, moderators)
Methodology, resources, interconnectedness, politics
· Sustainable vs. surge
· Disease-specific sentinel vs. comprehensive integrative
· Integration of tools for ongoing sentinel surveillance
· What’s working, what’s not
· Where do we go from here
5:15 – 5:30 Closing Remarks
Gerald Keusch & Marguerite Pappaioanou, Committee co-chairs
5:30 Adjourn