ESCAIDE 2024 Programme
Join us for ESCAIDE 2024 from 20 to 22 November, either in-person in Stockholm or online. The preliminary overview programme, plenary sessions and speakers are now available. This page will be updated with more information in due course.
Programme
ESCAIDE 2024 programme
Plenary sessions and speakers
Speakers at ESCAIDE 2024
Learn more about the plenary speakers at this year's conference
Plenaries at ESCAIDE 2024
Plenaries provide an opportunity to discuss public health challenges and scientific advances, with high level speakers from cross-cutting fields
How will ESCAIDE work as a hybrid event?
Attending ESCAIDE
Find out more about attending ESCAIDE 2024, online or in-person, and how it will work as a hybrid event
Day 1, Wednesday 20 November
| CET time zone | DAY 1 (20 November) | |
|---|---|---|
| 08.00-09.00 | Registration and welcome coffee | |
| 09.00-09.20 | Opening ceremony | |
| 09.20-10.20 | 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) | |
| 10.20-10.30 | Official launch of the ECDC Prevention Community of Practice | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.30 | Fireside session 1 | Fireside session 2 |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break | 12.30–13.00 Refresh and recharge session: |
| 12.45-13.45 EAN General Assembly Closed event organised by EPIET Alumni Network | ||
| 14.00-15.30 | Fireside session 3 | Fireside session 4 |
| 15.45-16.30 | Poster tour 1 | Poster tour 2 | Poster tour 3 | Poster tour 4 | Poster tour 5 | Poster tour 6 | Poster tour 7 | Poster tour 8 | 15.45-16.45 Side session 1: The expanding role of mobile laboratories in global health crises Organised by: MOBILISE project |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break | |
| 17.00-18.30 | 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) | |
| 18.30-20.00 | Networking event | |
| NOTE | This is a provisional programme and sessions may change. The final programme will be published closer to the conference dates. | |
Day 2, Thursday 21 November
| CET time zone | DAY 2 (21 November) | |
|---|---|---|
| 08.00-09.00 | Registration and welcome coffee | |
| 09.00-10.30 | 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) | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.30 | Fireside session 5 | Fireside session 6 |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break | 12.30–13.00 Refresh and recharge session |
12.30–14.00 Eurosurveillance Lunch Seminar Organised by: Eurosurveillance Journal | ||
| 14.00-15.30 | Fireside session 7 | Fireside session 8 |
| 15.30-16.30 | Poster tour 9 | Poster tour 10 | Poster tour 11 | Poster tour 12 | Poster tour 13 | Poster tour 14 | Poster tour 15 | Poster tour 16 | 15.45–16.45 Side session 2: TBA |
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break | |
| 17.00-18.30 | 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) | |
| 18.30-20.00 | BarCamp | |
| NOTE | This is a provisional programme and sessions may change. The final programme will be published closer to the conference dates. | |
Day 3, Friday 22 November
| CET time zone | DAY 3 (22 November) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 08.00-09.00 | Registration and welcome coffee | ||
| 09.00-10.30 | 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) | ||
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11.00-12.30 | Fireside session 9 | Fireside session 10 | |
| 12.30-13.45 | Lunch break | 12.30–13.00 Refresh and recharge session | |
| 12.45–13.45 Side session 3: Career Compass | |||
| 14.00-15.30 | Fireside session 11 | Fireside session 12 | |
| 15.30-16.30 | Poster tour 17 | Poster tour 18 | Poster tour 19 | Poster tour 20 | Poster tour 21 | Poster tour 22 | Poster tour 23 | Poster tour 24 | 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 | |
| 16.40-17.00 | Wrap-up session | ||
| 17.00-17.15 | Closing ceremony and awards | ||
| 17.15-17.30 | Hej då & Kannelbullar | ||
| NOTE | This is a provisional programme and sessions may change. The final programme will be published closer to the conference dates. | ||