1 - 3 April 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

As part of its multifaceted approach to infections, ESCMID strives to promote vaccination and worries that the current lack of correct information among both lay public and health care providers might seriously undermine the efficacy of current and future vaccine campaigns.
This conference will bring together world-leading experts to debate the many-sided correlations between vaccines, medicine and society at the dawn of the third millennium.

1 and 2 April 2011

The Landscape

• The enduring threat of infectious diseases
• Measuring the impact of vaccines on the burden of disease in the population

Vaccines Facing the Problems of the XXI Century

• Vaccines and travellers
• Vaccines for disasters
• Vaccines, migration and geographical spread
• Vaccines boost the economies of poor countries
• Immunisations against bioterrorism: smallpox and anthrax

Vaccines for Special Patients

• Vaccines for the elderly
• HPV vaccination and primary prevention of cervical cancer
• Vaccination of immunocompromised patients
• Update on pertussis at the extremes of ages or in young children
• What are the priorities for incompletely vaccinated individuals?

Vaccines for Children

• The value of vaccines in pediatrics
• Neonatal meningitis: Group B streptococci
• Rotaviruses vaccination: a worldwide perspective
• Vaccines for mothers and children: maternal immunisation

Big Challenges and Unmet Needs

• Measles still spreads in Europe: who is responsible for the failure to vaccinate?
• Polio, between eradication and resurgence
• A vaccine for HIV
• Vaccines targeting nosocomial infections
• The malaria vaccine pipeline

Vaccinology, an Evolving Science

• How trust in immunisation can be built, nourished and maintained
• The vaccine production process: hi-tech development for modern vaccinology
• Vaccine administration routes and novel delivery technology
• Vaccine adjuvant as immunological drivers
• Vaccines at the human-animal interface (livestock/veterinary/aquaculture)

Influenza

• Pandemic flu and the anti-H1N1 vaccine, a retrospective view
• Compliance with anti-H1N1 vaccine among HCW and general population
• Children and flu
• Optimising flu recommendations: the European view

Vaccines, Media and Community

• Monitoring and assessing vaccine safety: a European perspective
• Harmonisation of vaccination policy across regions
• Opposition to vaccines and risks for public health
• Communicating risk in the media: bad science?
• Global safety of vaccines: strengthening systems for monitoring and management
• Value-based pricing for vaccines, a public health challenge?
• The key players: industry, researchers, governments and foundations

Pneumococcal Disease

• Understanding the burden of pneumococcal disease in adults
• Pneumococcal infection management in the antimicrobial-resistance era
• Pneumococcal vaccines for children: why recommend it?
• The role of pneumococcal vaccination in prevention of influenza-associated morbidity

Meningococcal Disease: Recent Developments and Novel Challenges

• International epidemiology of  meningococcal disease and the unmet need for vaccines
• The pathogenesis of meningococcal disease and implications for vaccine development
• Impact of serogroup A, C, W135 and Y vaccines and the influence of formulation and boosting
• Recent data from clinical trials of novel serogroup B vaccines
• Latest meningococcal vaccination recommendations across regions

3 April 2011

The History of Vaccination - 4th International Day for Fighting Infection

• A world without vaccines
• Vaccination in the ancient Chinese Medicine
• From Jenner to smallpox eradication
• Louis Pasteur
• The history of pneumococcal vaccination
• Global eradication of poliomyelitis
• Maurice Hilleman
• Haemophilus influenzae and its prevention by vaccine
• HBV and recombinant vaccines
• Reverse vaccinology: developing vaccines in the era of genomics

Specialists or physicians in training in the following disciplines: infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, hygiene, public health, vaccinology and other disciplines dealing with all aspects of vaccination

Registration Procedure

Please download the registration form (see link on the right) and return it to the course administrative secretariat.

Registration Fee

Members of ESCMID and Affiliated Societies

• Before and on 8 January 2011: EUR 500
• After 8 January 2011: EUR 600

All others

• Before and on 8 January 2011: EUR 700
• After 8 January 2011: EUR 800

The registration fee includes the scientific sessions, printed conference material, lunches and coffee breaks, but not travel and accommodation costs.

Attendance Grants

ESCMID provides a number of attendance grants for young attendees (40 years or younger) covering the registration fee, but no travel or accommodation costs. Please submit your application until 21 February 2011 online on this website (follow the link on the right). If there are more applicants than available grants, preference will be given to ESCMID members. Applicants will be informed about their acceptance by 7 March 2011.

Please note that attendance grant application does not include registration for the Conference. Please register separately with the form supplied on the right.

Giuseppe Cornaglia
Dept. of Pathology and Diagnostics
University of Verona
Strada Le Grazie 8
37134 Verona
Italy

Phone + 39 045 802 7196
Fax + 39 045 802 7101

Giuseppe Cornaglia

ICO
Marco Moschin
Via Lorenzo Marcello 32
30126 Lido di Venezia (VE)
Italy

Phone +39 041 52 62 530

Friday, 1 April 2011

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Sunday, 3 April 2011