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PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON PLANNING FOR PANDEMICS Thursday 2 – Sunday 5 March 2006 WILTON PARK CONFERENCE WPS 06/19 With support from: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London International Development and Research Centre, Ottawa F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basle Rockefeller Foundation, New York THURSDAY 2 MARCH 1400 Introduction to the conference Sheila MACKAY Director of Conferences, Wilton Park 1415-1515 1 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: CO-ORDINATING INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS TO COMBAT THE THREAT OF AN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC David NABARRO United Nations Co-ordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, New York 1515-1645 2 STRATEGIES TO REDUCE RISK OF H5N1 AVIAN FLU VIRUS SPREADING TO HUMANS • Identifying and isolating potential outbreaks in the animal population • Containment policies • Timeline and economics of culling • Pros and cons of animal vaccination programmes Christianne BRUSCHKE Leader, Avian Influenza Taskforce, Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), Paris Juan LUBROTH Senior Officer, Infectious Diseases Group/EMPRES, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Rome 1730 –1845 3 EPIDEMIC AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA: STATE OF PLAY AND THE WHO’s RECENT STRATEGY PLAN • Role in global disease surveillance; funding, capacity, interfaces with regional teams • Interface between WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) and national action plans • Ongoing international funding initiatives to build anti-viral purchases and regional stockpiles where demand is greatest but where financial resources weakest Michael RYAN Director, Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response, World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva 1915 Reception followed by dinner FRIDAY 3 MARCH 0915–1045 4 QUANTIFYING SHORTFALLS AND BUILDING CAPACITY: WHAT STILL NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED? • Building an adequate surveillance capacity • Generating and co-ordinating disparate disease surveillance data • Dealing with the issue of transparency Alberto LADDOMADA Deputy Head of Unit, Animal Health and Welfare, European Commission, Brussels James LEDUC Influenza Coordinator, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta 1115–1230 5 ANIMAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND POULTRY SECTOR MANAGEMENT: CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND FURTHER NEEDS IN MANAGING THE FOOD DISTRIBUTION CHAIN • Work achieved by central animal health and Veterinary Public Health Services to improve early detection and response • Communicating with backyard producers in rural and suburban communities • Pre-emptive approaches; changing market place trading methods • When is culling workable and what are the alternatives? NGUYEN Tien Dung Head of Virology Department, National Institute of Veterinary Research, Vietnam 1430–1545 6 LESSONS LEARNED FROM SARS IN HONG KONG AND IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNTRIES AFFECTED BY BIRD FLU • Capping emergence of disease at source • Planning, organizing and mobilizing surge capacity TSANG Thomas Head, Communicable Disease Division, Centre for Health Protection (CHP), HKSAR 1615-1700 7 CLINICAL CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS OF HUMAN CASES INFECTED BY INFLUENZA A (H5N1) IN CHINA Zhancheng GAO Clinical Counsellor, Chinese Center for Disease Control, Beijing 1700–1830 8 PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS PLANS IN ASIA • Status of national integrated influenza pandemic preparedness plans • Stockpiling of the anti viral drugs • Testing national pandemic preparedness plans • Strengthening the capacity of health systems, training clinicians and health managers • Cross border integration of country plan Suwit WIBULPOLPRASERT Senior Adviser on Health Economics, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok NGUYEN Thi Hong Hanh Deputy Director, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi SATURDAY 4 MARCH 0915–1045 9 PANEL SESSION: SOME EXAMPLES OF PANDEMIC RESPONSE MEASURES: WHAT IS THE STATUS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRY PROGRAMMES? Arlene KING Director, Immunization and Respiratory Infections Division, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Ottawa Nigel LIGHTFOOT Director, Emergency Response Division; Head, Pandemic Flu Programme, Health Protection Agency, Salisbury SATURDAY 4 MARCH (continued) 115–1230 10 BUILDING AND IMPLEMENTING AN EFFECTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNICATION SYSTEM • Outbreak communication • Risk communication to rural populations • Post outbreak: how to communicate difficult issues of equity and access to antivirals and vaccines Joanne YARWOOD Head of Immunisation Information, Department of Health, London 1500 -1545 11 a. MEDICAL INTERVENTION: HOW TO ACHIEVE EFFECTIVE DISTRIBUTION OF ANTIVIRALS AT POINTS OF OUTBREAK David REDDY Tamiflu Pandemic Task Force Leader, Roche, Basle 1545 - 1630 12 b. HOW TO ENSURE ADEQUATE MASS PRODUCTION OF VACCINE • What is happening currently in terms of vaccine production • Scalable manufacturing processes to meet vaccine needs for pandemic flu • Public private sector partnerships • How will countries without manufacturing capability cope? Luc HESSEL Chairperson of the Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Working Group, EVM; Executive Director, Medical and Public Affairs, Europe, Sanofi Pasteur MSD 1700 - 1830 13 NEXT STEPS: INCORPORATING EXPERIENCE GAINED FROM PANDEMIC PLANNING INTO FUTURE RESPONSE SYSTEMS Synergies between non-health sector and health sector groups Jean LEBEL Director, Environment and Natural Resources Management Programme, IDRC, Ottawa Structuring our global partnership after Beijing Vincent DE VISSCHER Head of Unit, Director General External Affairs, Asia – Policy, Planning and Co-ordination, European Commission, Brussels a. b. 2000 Conference Dinner SUNDAY 5 MARCH 0915 Participants depart