ESCAIDE 2024 Programme

Plenary session A: 

Prevention vs. Cure: what can we learn from cancer, crime and climate change?

Chaired by  by the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee members Kateřina Šédová (Loono, Czech Republic) and Henriette de Valk (Santé Publique France) 

Speakers: Chris Dye (University of Oxford, UK)

Fireside session 1

Healthcare associated infections

Fireside session 2

COVID-19

Fireside session 3

Burden of disease

Fireside session 4

Food- and waterborne diseases

15.45-16.45 Side session 1: The expanding role of mobile laboratories in global health crises 

Organised by: MOBILISE project

Moderated by: Florian Gehre (BNITM, Germany
Speakers: Muna Affara (BNITM, Germany), Kym Antonation (Public Health Agency of Canada) and Laurence Flevaud (MSF-OCBA, Spain) 

Plenary session B:

Infectious diseases in times of conflict: Lessons from Ukraine 

Chaired by the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee members John Kinsman (ECDC) and Piotr Kramarz (ECDC) 

Speakers: Ihor Kuzin (Ministry of Health Ukraine), Olga Gvozdetska (Ministry of Health Ukraine), Katarzyna Drążek-Laskowska (Ministry of Health Poland) 

Plenary session C: 

Surveillance of infectious diseases: how can we better tell what's going on?  

Chaired by the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee members: Alicia Barrasa (EAN) and Ágnes Hajdu (National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy, Hungary) 

Speakers: André Charlett (UK Security Health Agency), Lieke van Alphen (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Caterina Rizzo (University of Pisa, Italy) 
 

Fireside session 5

Surveillance

Fireside session 6

Modelling and biostatistics

12.30–14.00 Eurosurveillance Lunch Seminar

Organised by: Eurosurveillance Journal 

Moderated by: Ines Steffens (Eurosurveillance) and Matthew J Kuehnert (EID, United States)
Speakers: Shirin Heidari (GENDRO, Switzerland) and Gowri Gopalakrishna (University of Maastricht, Netherlands

Fireside session 7

Vaccine-preventable diseases

Fireside session 8

Preparedness

15.45–16.45 Side session 2: Evidence-based public health: the power of song and dance,

with Georgia Ladbury and Irina Ljungqvist

Plenary session D: 

Disease X: are we ready?  

Chaired by the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee members: Angeliki Melidou (ECDC), Luisa Peixe (University of Porto, Portugal) and Chikwe Ihekweazu (WHO) 

Speakers: Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo (WHO), Mika Salminen (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare), Christian Drosten (Charité, Germany) 

Plenary session E

The new old: rethinking the future of known diseases

Chaired by the the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee members: Nadine Zeitlmann (Robert Koch Institute, Germany) and Jacobo Mendioroz (Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Spain) 

Speakers: Nienke Beerlage-De Jong (University of Twente, Netherlands), Tomasz Sobierajski (University of Warsaw, Poland), Maria Wessman (Statens Serum Institut, Denmark) 

Fireside session 9

Antimicrobial resistance

Fireside session 10

Sexually transmitted infections

12.45–13.45 Side session 3: Career Compass

Organised by: EPIET Alumni Network 

Moderated by: Ioannis Karagiannis (EAN) and Bojana Mahmutović (EAN) 
Speakers: Marc-Alain Widdowson (WHO EURO), Ricardo Mexia (EUPHA-IDC), Tanja Charles (ECDC), Natalie Fischer (LSHTM)

Fireside session 11

Childhood vaccinations

Fireside session 12

Late breakers

15.45-16.45 Side session 4: : Risk Communication, Community Engagement and Infodemic Management: What health emergency teams must know.

Organised by: ECDC and WHO-EURO

Moderated by: Cristiana Salvi (WHO) 
Speakers: Ana Kasradze (CDC’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Georgia), John Kinsman (ECDC), Christina Rolfheim-Bye (Norwegian Public Health Institute)