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Paris 2002 Meeting Agenda

What	Meeting
When	2002-03-20 13:00 to 2002-03-23 12:30
Where	Paris, France
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Emerging Infections and Antibiotic Resistance: The Role of the World's Academies of Medicine 20-22 March 2002

(Proposed Organization and Speakers as of 22 January 2002)

Wednesday, March 20

Académie Nationale de Médecine
16, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

1:00 pm
Registration

2:00 pm
Opening Ceremony
Co-chairs: Pr. Nicole Le Douarin (France), Pr. David Challoner (USA) and Pr. Louis Auquier (France)

Greetings from:
1. the President of the Academy of Medecine, Pr. Maurice Tubiana
2. the President of the French Academy of Sciences, Pr. Hubert Curien
3. the President of the Institute of Medicine /NAS :Pr. Kenneth Shine
message from Kofi Annan (UN)
message from Mrs Brutland (WHO )
4. Co-President of IAP : Pr. Yves Queré
5. the French Minister of Health, Dr. Bernard Kouchner

Keynote Address: The International Challenge of Emerging Infections
Pr Joshua Lederburg (USA)

3:15 pm
Coffee Break

3:30 pm
Session 1

Bioterrorism and the Role of Academies
Chair: Pr. Philippe Kourislky (Fr) Chairman of the Pasteur Institute
Program to be proposed by Dr. Margaret Hamburg (USA)

6:00pm
Welcome Reception

Thursday, March 21

Académie Nationale de Médecine
16, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

9:30am
Session 2
Complexities of the Control of Parasitic Diseases
Chair: Pr Peter Lachman (U.K.)
Lessons from Malaria Treatments
Session Keynote Speaker: Dr Ade Lucas (Nigeria)
Panel Respondents: 3 countries :
Pr A. Capron (Lille, France)
Pr. Amboise-Thoma (Grenoble, France)

General Discussion

10:45 am
Break

11:00 am
Session 3
Chair: to be determined
Tuberculosis Surveillance Prevention and Treatments
Session Keynote Speaker: Dr. Indira Nath
Panel Respondents: 3 countries:
Dr François Portaels (Antwerp, Belgium): Emerging Multiresistant Tuberculosis is Eastern Europe

12:15 pm
General Discussion - Special Presentation:
"The Control of Infections: The Role of WHO"
Speaker: Dr. David Heymann (Executive Director, WHO)

1:00 pm
Lunch break: buffet

2:30pm
Session 4
Moving the Agenda for Vaccines
Chair: Pr Alf Lindberg (Sweden and Aventis Pasteur)
Key Speaker: Pr Adrian Hill (Oxford)
Panel respondents: Pr. Philippe Sansonetti (Fr)

4:00pm
Break

4:15pm
Session 5
The Infrastructure for Control of Infectious Disease
Chair: Dr Engin Bermek (Turkey)
Session Keynote Speaker: Dr. Olusoji Adeyi (The World Bank)
Discussants:
Dr. Peter Piot (UNAIDS)

5:45
Adjournment

8:00 pm
Dinner Cruise

Friday, March 22

Fondation Singer-Polignac
43, avenue Georges Mandel, 75116 Paris

9:30am
Welcome
Chancellier Edouard Bonnefous, President of the "Fondation Singer-Polignac"
Pr. E.E. Beaulieu, Vice President of the Academy of Sciences

9:45 am
Session 6
Childhood Infectious Diseases and Antibiotic Resistance
Chair: Pr S. M'Boup (Senegal)
Key Speaker: Pr Keith Klugman (South Africa)
Panel Discussion
Pr Patrice Courvalin (Institut Pasteur)

11:00am
Coffee Pause

11:15 am
Session 7
Call to Action
Chair: Dr. David Challoner

The French/Swedish Maternal Child Health International Research Network
Key Speaker: Dr. Guy de Thé
Panel Discussion: Pr. Francois Gros (Fr)
   •    Potential collaborations between academies
   •    Role of academies within their Own Countries
   •    Enhanced communications between scientists, physicians, and academies
   •    possible policy studies by academy(ies)

12:30pm
Break

2:30pm
Session 8
Conference Summary and Future Actions
Chair: Dr Kenneth I. Shine (USA) and Pr. Maurice Tubiana
Presentation of White Paper on Policies for Dealing with Emerging Infections and Antibiotic Resistance in Developed and Developing Countries
(paper to be drafted by a working group prior to the meeting and distributed to all the participants upon arrival)

A general discussion and decision regarding endorsement of the white paper

5.45pm
Adjournment

Saturday, March 23

Académie Nationale de Médecine
16, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

9:30am - 12:30 pm
Steering Committee meeting

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