Friday, 8 September 2017
08:30 - 09:00 | Opening of the Conference | Mario Poljak, Susanna Esposito and Ron Dagan |
Opening symposium: Equity in immunization | Chairpersons: Robb Butler (WHO), Ron Dagan (IL)
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09:00 - 09:25 | Equity in health; principles and policy considerations | Tammy Boyce (UK) |
09:25 - 09:50 | Inequalities in vaccine uptake among refugees and immigrants | Marie Louise Nørredam (DK) |
09:50 - 10:15 | Defining health equity in relation to immunization | Robb Butler (WHO Europe) |
10:15 - 10:45 | Discussion | |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
| Vaccine-preventable diseases – exposing the gaps | Chairpersons: Robb Butler (WHO), Paolo Bonanni (IT) |
11:15 - 11:40 | Measles and mumps | Ole Wichmann (DE) |
11:40 - 12:05 | Diphtheria | Anderula Efstraiou (UK) |
12:05 - 12:30 | Meningococcus | Shamez Ladhani (UK) |
12:30 - 13:00 | Discussion | |
13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch break | |
Vaccines for new global threats | Chairpersons: Susanna Esposito (IT), Stanley Plotkin (US) | |
14:15 - 14:40 | Ebola | Barney Graham (NIH) |
14:40 - 15:05 | Brazil catastrophe of Zika from the start to the current days | Marco Aurelio Safadi (BR) |
15:05 - 15:30 | Zika vaccines | Alan Barrett (US) |
15:30 - 16:00 | Discussion | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
Old foe – new solutions? Is a new tuberculosis vaccine still a dream? | Chairperson: Willem Hanekom (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Thomas Cherian (WHO) | |
16:30 - 16:55 | Current epidemiology | Marieke von der Werf (ECDC) |
16:55 - 17:20 | Current implementation | Mark Hatherill (ZA) |
17:20 - 17:45 | Novel vaccine horizons | Willem Hanekom (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) |
17:45 - 18:15 | Discussion | |
18:30 - 20:30 | Networking event |
Saturday, 9 September 2017
Progress in RSV vaccines | Chairpersons: Louis Bont (NL), Susanna Esposito (IT) | |
08:30 - 08:55 | New insights in RSV epidemiology | Harish Nair (UK) |
08:55 - 09:20 | RSV vaccines to prevent disease in infants | Louis Bont (NL) |
09:20 - 09:45 | RSV vaccines to prevent disease in adults | Tom Wilkinson (UK) |
09:45 - 10:15 | Discussion | |
10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break | |
Did we learn how to better communicate? | Chairpersons: Robb Butler (WHO), Federico Martinon (ES) | |
10:45 - 11:00 | Pandemic flu | Jonathan van Tam (UK) |
11:10 - 11:35 | HPV | Katrine Habersaat (WHO) |
11:35 - 12:05 | Discussion | |
12:05 - 13:20 | Lunch break | |
New approaches for implementation of vaccines | Chairpersons: Ron Dagan (IL), Robb Butler (WHO) | |
13:20 - 13:45 | Childhood influenza vaccination also protects against disease in adults | Adam Finn (UK) |
13:45 - 14:10 | Reduced dose PCV – is the world ready for it? | Keith Klugman (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) |
14:10 - 14:40 | Discussion | |
14:40 - 15:05 | Non-specific effect of vaccines | Federico Martinon (ES) |
15:05 - 15:35 | Discussion | |
15:35 - 16:00 | Endgame of Polio | Ananda Bandyopadhyay (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) |
16:00 - 16:30 | Discussion |
Sunday, 10 September 2017
New vaccines for old diseases | Chairpersons: Adam Finn (UK), Keith Klugman (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) | |
08:30 - 08:55 | Zoster | Paolo Bonanni (IT) |
08:55 - 09:20 | CMV | Stanley Plotkin (US) |
09:20 - 09:45 | Norovirus | Miguel O’Ryan (CL) |
09:45 - 10:10 | Malaria | Adrian Hill (UK) |
10:10 - 10:40 | Discussion | |
10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break | |
Innovative approaches for vaccines against old diseases | Chairpersons: Shamez Ladhani (UK), Pekka Nuorti (FI) | |
11:10 - 11:35 | Pneumococcal vaccines – beyond the current spectrum of polysaccharide antigens | Rick Malley (US) |
11:35 - 12:00 | Are we ready to accommodate the increasing number of new vaccines and the increasing number of target populations? | Liz Miller (UK) |
12:00 - 12:30 | Discussion | |
12:30 - 13:00
| Closing remarks | |
13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch break |