The joint Kenya Veterinary Association (KVA), the Commonwealth Veterinary Association (CVA) Golden Jubilee celebrations, and International conference and a World Veterinary Day at the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya as from 25th to 29th April, 2017: http://www.kenyavetassociation.com/kva-annual-conferences/kva-joint-conference-2017/
Grazing for change-people, Pastures, progress and profit, conference to be held on Wed, February 8, 2017 as from 8am to 5pm EAT at the Museum of Kenya-Louis Leakey Auditorium, Nairobi: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grazing-for-change-tickets-30292786540
The ASTMH Annual Meeting draws tropical medicine and global health professionals representing academia, government, non-profits, philanthropy, NGOs, industry, military and private practice. The meeting is designed for researchers, professors, government and public health officials, military personnel, travel clinic physicians, practicing physicians in tropical medicine, students and all health care providers working in the fields of tropical medicine, hygiene and global health.
The Annual Meeting is a five-day educational conference that includes four pre-meeting courses and draws approximately 4,400 attendees.
2016 Annual Meeting: ASTMH 65th Annual Meeting
November 13-17, 2016
Atlanta Marriott Marquis and Hilton Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia USA
For more information visit the event website: http://www.astmh.org/annual-meeting
Following the successful Global Conference on One Health (GCOH) that was held in Madrid in May 2015, the WVA and WMA in close collaboration with the Japan Medical Association (JMA) and the Japan Veterinary Medical Association (JVMA) are preparing the 2nd GCOH to be held on November 10th-11th in kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
The 2nd GCOH aims to bring together Veterinarians, Physicians, Students, Public Health Officers, Animal Health Officers, NGOs and other interested parties from the different world regions to learn, discuss and to address critical aspects of the ‘One Health’ Concept.
The main objectives of the conference are to strengthen the links and communications and to achieve closer collaboration between Physicians, Veterinarians and all appropriate stakeholders to improve the different aspects of health and welfare of humans, animals and the environment.
More details regarding the conference and registrations will be published soon on WVA and WMA websites
It is our pleasure to announce the sixth International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, IMED 2016 to be held in Vienna, Austria from 4–7 November 2016. For those whose work deals with threats from infectious agents, IMED 2016 will once again bring leading scientists, clinicians and policy makers to Vienna to present new knowledge and breakthroughs and discuss how to discover, detect, understand, prevent and respond to outbreaks of emerging pathogens.
Since the last IMED in 2014, newly emerged diseases and outbreaks of familiar ones have continued to challenge us. The West African Ebola outbreak presented an unparalleled crisis of global proportions and there are many lessons yet to be learned from it. MERS coronavirus continued to challenge the Middle East, spreading dangerously in the healthcare setting, and showed its global threat with a major outbreak in the Republic of Korea. Eruptions of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry, wild birds and humans continue to occur. Zika virus appeared for the first time in the Americas, spreading widely in this region with plentiful competent vectors. A frightening role in fetal malformation has emerged. Diseases at the human-wildlife interface ranging from rabies to plague to Nipah continue to draw our attention. Growing resistance by pathogens to all types of therapeutic agents raises fundamental obstacles to our ability to respond to outbreaks and pandemics. We have witnessed the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict and the threat of intentional use of biological agents for nefarious purposes remains as real as ever. The European migrant crisis has raised questions regarding the re-emergence of infectious diseases and the monitoring and screening of migrants arriving in Europe and elsewhere.
Since its inception, IMED has been a summit that unifies our approach to pathogens in the broadest ecological context. Drawing together human and veterinary health specialists, IMED serves as a true One Health forum where those working in diverse specialties and diverse regions can meet, discuss, present and challenge one another with findings and new ideas. While pathogens emerge and mutate, our methodology for detection, surveillance, prevention, control, and treatment also continue to evolve. New approaches to vaccination and isolation the uses of novel data sources and genomics, novel laboratory methods, rapid point-of-care diagnostics, risk communication, political and societal responses to outbreaks have all seen innovation and change that will be explored at IMED 2016.
ProMED and the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), along with all of our co-sponsors and participating organizations, look forward to welcoming you to Vienna. Target Audience: Physicians, veterinarians and other health care workers and scientists, public health leaders, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, journalists, other interested persons including the entire ProMED-mail community.
Larry MADOFF & Britta LASSMANN
Co-Chairs, Scientific Program Committee
ISID, Boston, USA
Find out more by visiting the webpage: http://imed.isid.org/welcome.shtml
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