The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa: Proceedings of a Workshop (2016)

Chapter: Appendix E: Workshop Agenda

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23653.

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Workshop Agenda

DAY ONE: TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015

8:00–8:30: Registration and coffee
8:30–8:45: Welcoming remarks: Victor Dzau, President, Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine)
8:45–9:15: Workshop overview: David A. Relman, James M. Hughes, Lonnie King
9:15–9:30: Welcoming remarks: Isabella Danel, Deputy Director, Pan American Health Organization
SESSION I: The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa—What Makes This Outbreak Different from Past Outbreaks?
Moderator: James M. Hughes
9:30–10:00: The emergence of Ebola hemorrhagic fever: From Central Africa to West Africa
David Heymann, Public Health England
Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23653.
10:00–10:30: 39 years of Ebola outbreak experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): An African perspective
Jean Jacques Muyembe, Democratic Republic of the Congo
10:30–10:45: BREAK
10:45–11:15: The Ebola epidemic: Changing clinical and epidemiological perspectives
Daniel Bausch, Tulane University
11:15–11:45: Ebola in West Africa: An analysis of the current situation
Keiji Fukuda, World Health Organization
11:45–12:15: DISCUSSION
12:15–1:00: LUNCH BREAK
SESSION II: The Science of Ebola
Moderator: Kevin Anderson
1:00–1:30: Bats as reservoir hosts for filoviruses
Jonathan Towner, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1:30–2:00: Cross-border transmission dynamics of the Ebola filovirus in West Africa
Stephen Gire, Broad Institute
2:00–2:30: The response to the Ebola outbreak: A view from the NIH
Michael Kurilla, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23653.
2:30–3:00: DISCUSSION
3:00–3:30: BREAK
3:30–4:00: Laboratory diagnosis of the Ebola filovirus in low-resource settings
Heinz Feldmann, Rocky Mountain Laboratory/National Institutes of Health
4:00–4:30: Ebola filovirus drug and vaccine development
Thomas Geisbert, University of Texas Medical Branch
4:30–5:00: Antibodies against Ebola: A global collaboration
Erica Saphire, The Scripps Research Institute
5:00–5:45: DISCUSSION
5:45: ADJOURNMENT

DAY TWO: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015

Domestic and International Community Response to
Global Infectious Disease Outbreaks

8:45–9:15: Registration and coffee
9:15–9:30: Welcome and summary of day one: David Relman
SESSION III: The International Community’s Response
Moderator: Andrew Clements
Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23653.
9:30–10:00: Preparing for the future: Developing a global health risk framework
Victor Dzau, President, Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine)
10:00–10:30: The MSF response to the West African Ebola outbreak
Armand Sprecher, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
10:30–10:45: BREAK
10:45–11:15: Sierra Leone’s response: Challenges and barriers to get to “zero”
Joseph Fair, Fondation Mérieux USA
11:15–11:45: Ebola in West Africa: From disease outbreak to humanitarian crisis
Oyewale Tomori, Nigerian Academy of Science
11:45–12:30: DISCUSSION
12:30–1:15: LUNCH
SESSION IV: Ethical and Logistical Challenges of Treatment Implementation: What Works; What Doesn’t Work; What More Needs to Be Done?
Moderator: Gary Roselle
1:15–1:45: Emergency medicine: Perspectives from West Africa
Colin Bucks, Stanford University
1:45–2:15: Ebola preparedness in Germany: Competence focused in specialized laboratories and treatment centers
Reinhard Burger, Robert Koch Institute
Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23653.
2:15–2:45: Regional preparedness for responding to an Ebola-like infectious disease emergency
Sylvain Aldighieri, Pan American Health Organization
2:45–3:00: BREAK
3:00–3:30: U.S. public health response to the Ebola epidemic: Role in the global response
Inger Damon, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3:30–4:00: U.S. health care perspective and challenges
Bruce Ribner, Emory University
4:00–4:30: How has our thinking evolved regarding containment care?
Mark Kortepeter, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4:30–5:15: DISCUSSION
5:15–5:20: CONCLUDING REMARKS AND ADJOURNMENT
Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23653.

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