01 September 2011

12th DENGUE COURSE: 8-19 Aug.,2011. HAVANA

Under the auspices of
'Pedro Kourí' Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK)
Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba (MINSAP)
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
 WHO Special Program for Research and Training  in Tropical Diseases (TDR)
World Health Organization (WHO)
A global pandemic of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease, started during World War II, intensifying during the 70’s. Since then, the prevalence of dengue fever as well as the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS) has increased exponentially, with approximately 2.5 billion people at risk, about 50 million cases and 250-500 000 severe cases occur annually. At present, dengue is reported in Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific, and in the American and the Mediterranean regions. In the last years, an increased number of epidemics are being reported in Africa.
In this context, the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector of the ‘Pedro Kourí’’ Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK), Havana, Cuba, together with the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) organize, since 1987, their biannual International Dengue Course.
This 12th edition of the Course, covering 24 years (1987-2011) of work, will allow to strengthening capacities in dengue control and prevention, taking into account the most current and advanced knowledge and experiences.  
The Course’s objective is that participants -physicians, virologists, immunologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, entomologists, and health managers, among others interested in this field, along with many professors from several prestigious national and international institutions, may have the opportunity to debate on the most relevant and updated aspects of this disease and its control.
TOPICS OF THE COURSE
Through theoretical and practical sessions, the main aspects related to dengue will be covered: dengue epidemiology, clinical management, diagnosis, virology and immunology, vector control, environmental risk factors and community participation. Important aspects to be discussed are trends of dengue at global level, impact of climate change, new dengue clinical classification, opportunities for diagnosis, impact of virus diversity, immunogenetics, complexity of dengue immunity and pathogenesis, dengue vaccines, new highlights and challenges, integrated surveillance and control, difficulties, options, challenges, economic burden, new options for control, insecticide resistance, the environment, health systems and dengue, among others. Within the framework of the course, the new global initiatives for dengue and the experiences of several countries and geographical regions will be showed.  
In the first week, general lectures as well as round tables and symposia on the topics of clinic, emergency response, diagnostic, pathogenesis, vaccines, antiviral drugs, integrated control and chikungunya and other emergent arboviruses are also scheduled. In addition several expert meetings will be organized.
General topics to be covered
  • Dengue, current epidemiological situation.
  • Global initiatives
  • Integrated dengue surveillance
  • Viral genome and structure
  • Viral replication.
  • Clinical picture and pathology. Clinical management
  • WHO dengue clinical classification.
  • PAHO/WHO Dengue Guidelines for clinical management
  • Dengue diagnostic and laboratory surveillance
  • Immune response to dengue. Protection or pathogenesis?
  • Antibody dependent enhancement (ADE).
  • Genetic host susceptibility to dengue illness
  • Pathogenesis and physiopathology  
  • Animal models for dengue study
  • Dengue vaccine candidates. Vaccination challenges
  • Drugs for dengue treatment
  • Ecology of Aedes aegypti  
  • Vector dynamic for dengue transmission
  • Entomological surveillance of Aedes aegyti.
  • Chemical and biological vector control methods.
  • Mechanisms of Insecticide Resistance  
  • Social aspects in dengue
  • Mathematical models for dengue transmission study
  • Integral Strategy (EGI) for dengue prevention and control
  • Ecobiosystem approach for dengue control and prevention
  • The community role in dengue control.  
  • Cost/effectivity of dengue control activities
  • Emergency management for outbreak control
  • Cuban experience: surveillance and control
  • Environment, climate change and dengue
  • Chikungunya and other emergent arboviruses
     
ORGANIZATION OF THE COURSE
The Course is structured in two sections: theoretical and practical. The theoretical section will be conducted during the first week and the practical section during the second week.
In the theoretical section, general lectures, round tables and symposia have been scheduled.
In the practical section, participants will gather in several groups, according to their interests: clinical care, entomology, community participation, virology and epidemiology. 
Participants will have opportunity to present their results in a poster session scheduled in the first week. Poster characteristics: 94cm wide X 140cm high (vertical position).
 
Foreign
Olivia  Brathwaite, PAHO/WHO
Arachu Castro, Harvard University, USA
Laurant Coudeville, Sanofi PasteurDerek Cummings, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USALuiz Jacintho Da Silva, DVI
Delia Enria, J.A. Maiztegui Institute, ArgentinaCarlos Espinal, Sanofi Pasteur
Scott B. Halstead, PDVI
Eva Harris, Berkeley University, USA
Kenji Hirayama, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan
Joachim Hombach, IVR, WHO
Olaf Horstick, German International Co-operation, GIZ
Axel Kroeger, TDR/WHOJean Lang, Sanofi Pasteur
Julien Lescar, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore
Audrey Lenhart, Liverpool School Tropical Medicine, UKLinda Lloyd, San Diego, California, USARamon Martinez, PAHO/WHO
Romeo Montoya, PAHO/WHO
Amy Morrison, University of California Davis, California, USAFernando Noriega, Sanofi Pasteur
Jorge Osorio, Wisconsin University, USARosanna Peeling, London School Tropical Medicine, UK
José L. San Martín, PAHO/WHOSiew Pheng, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore
Chanditha Hapurachchi, Environmental Health Institute, SingaporeGavin Screaton, Imperial College, UK
David Severson, Notredame University, USA
Frederic Tangy, Institute Pasteur, France
Patrick Van Der Stuyft, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Veerle Vanlerberghe, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Paul Young, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Cubans
Gustavo Kourí, María G. Guzmán, Eric Martínez, Susana Vázquez, María E. Toledo, Juan Bisset, , Delfina Rosario, Maritza Pupo,
Virginia Capó, Mayling Alvarez, Rosmari Rodríguez-Roche,
Ana B. Pérez, Beatriz Sierra, Gisel García, Liset Sánchez,
Omar Fuentes, Magdalena Rodríguez, Alberto Baly,
Miriam Concepción Rojas, Ana M. Ibarra, Juan V. Cangas, 
Otto Pelaez, Angel M Alvarez, Osvaldo Castro, among other prestigious professors and collaborators (IPK, INHEM, Ministry of Health, Cuba).
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