Program Schedule
October 1 | |
8:30 - 8:45 | Registration |
8:45 - 9:00 | Opening |
9:00 - 9:15 | Seyed Moghadas (Pan-InfORM overview and progress to-date) |
9:15 - 9:30 | Margaret Haworth-Brockman (NCCID, mod4PH, and "Modelling Matters" learning video) |
9:30 - 10:00 | Ashleigh Tuite (What’s going on and how worried should I be? Developing a global early warning system for infectious diseases) |
10:00 - 10:15 | Health Break |
10:15 - 10:45 | Raymond Tsang (Laboratory surveillance of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in Canada: emergence of serotype a strains and their characteristics) |
10:45 - 11:15 | Marina Ulanova (Consistent presence of Haemophilus influenzae serotype a in First Nations communities and natural immunity against this pathogen) |
11:15 - 11:45 | Andrew Cox (Pre-clinical and clinical development of a glycoconjugate vaccine to combat Haemophilus influenzae serotype a disease) |
11:45 - 12:15 | Affan Shoukat (Cost-effectiveness of a vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae serotype a in Nunavut population) |
12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 - 14:00 | Marek Smieja (Clinical and infection control aspects of Clostridium difficile infection) |
14:00 - 14:30 | David Champredon (Simulating the impact of a vaccine on nosocomial Clostridium difficile infections) |
14:30 - 14:45 | Health Break |
14:45 - 15:15 | Robert Van Exan (The evolution of vaccines and vaccine development: implications for Canada informed by the past, present and a glimpse of the future) |
15:15 - 16:00 | Discussion (summary of the day and wrap-up) |
18:00 - 21:00 | Networking Dinner |
October 2 | |
9:00 - 9:30 | Joanne Langley (Envisioning a framework: What would the ideal Canadian framework for economic evaluation of vaccines look like?) |
9:30 - 10:00 | Amy Greer (Collaboration for improved health outcomes: breaking the “silo mentality” and building collective knowledge) |
10:00 - 10:30 | Michelle Driedger (Closing the loop in the knowledge-to-action cycle: Moving beyond window dressing) |
10:30 - 11:00 | Health Break |
11:00 - 12:30 | Group Meetings |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 - 14:00 | Summary of Group Meetings (key questions, research plans with partnerships) |
14:00 - 15:00 | Discussion (action plans on health economics framework for vaccine evaluation, and indigenous research and training program) |
15:00 - 15:15 | Health Break |
15:15 - 15:30 | Workshop wrap-up (feedback and evaluation) |