Category: Meetings

One Health for Sustainable Development

Date: 14th-17th Aug 2013
Location: Summerville Resort Hotel, Porto De Galinhas, Brazil
Organizer:

Summary: 

Congress Thematic Areas:

1. One Health Meta-Leadership in Action
2. Vector-borne Zoonoses and Impact on Public Health
3. Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Role of Wildlife
4. Drug Development and Antimicrobial Resistance
5. Food-borne and Water-borne Diseases
6. Genomics and Rapid Pathogen Detection Systems
7. Parasitic Zoonoses and Environment
8. Immunology and Vaccine Development

Important Dates
User registration and on-line abstract submission open on December 1, 2012.
More information will  be available from:  http://icophai2013.org/

In the meantime please see the 2011 conference page:  http://icophai2011.org/

One Health – One Planet – One Future
Risks and Opportunities

Date: 17-20 Nov 2013
Location: Davos, Switzerland

Summary: 

The 2nd GRF One Health Summit will further explore, advance and agree on the need for a global integrative risk management approach for One Health. Furthermore, the conference will identify ways to achieve added value by multi-sectorial and multi-stakeholder cooperation and promote enhanced public-private partnership models for risk-based financing tools. The findings of the conference shall be used to make recommendations on policy and organisational changes and stimulate a more efficient collaboration between stakeholders.

Further details can be found on the meeting website:
http://onehealth.grforum.org/pages_new.php/2nd-One-Health-Summit-2013/243/1/

Date: 7th-8th March 2013
Location: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Organizer: International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Diseases (ISIRV)

Summary

This 2nd International Symposium on Neglected Influenza Viruses will retain the format, and build on the success of the inaugural symposium held in Florida in 2010. This conference will explore the latest surveillance data, vaccination and control strategies, diagnostic techniques, experimental research data and epidemiological and economic impact studies relating to swine, equine, canine and other nonhuman/nonavian influenza viruses.

Further details can be found on the meeting websites:
www.isirv.org/site/images/stories/isirv_documents/conferences/isirv_2013_dublin.pdf
or
www.isirv.org/site/index.php/upcoming-event

Date: 21-23 March 2013.

Location: Athens, Georgia, USA

Organizer: The University of Georgia Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute (http://biomed.uga.edu/) , UGA Faculty of Infectious Diseases (http://fid.uga.edu/) , and the University of Liverpool, UK (http://www.liv.ac.uk/)

Summary:

This three-day event brings together national and international disease ecology experts with the purpose of sharing the latest research at the nexus of human, animal and environmental health.

Further details can be found on the meeting website:
http://onehealth.uga.edu/symposium.php 

Registration is available at the UGA Division of One Health website:
onehealth.uga.edu.