Workshop Programme
Manaus, Brazil, 25-28 June 2024
Credit: Dr Darlan Candido, University of West of Pará, Brazil 2019.
Plenary Lectures
The plenary lectures will provide participants with in-depth knowledge about the context, challenges, and experiences related to developing, implementing and strengthening health preparedness and response across the Brazilian Amazon.
These lectures will set the foundations for the workshop whereby leaders, civil society, healthcare stakeholders, and researchers will share their experiences and identify potential opportunities for collaboration.
Discussion Groups
Participants will actively lead and engage in collaborative working group sessions each comprising key stakeholders, and research professionals. The primary objective of these groups is to systematically identify key challenges and formulate action plans.
Participants will receive dedicated support and guidance from mentors, ensuring the development of a viable strategic approach to address their selected health-related challenges by the workshop's conclusion.
Group Presentations
Group presentations will act as catalysts for knowledge exchange. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences and perspectives on local health preparedness and decision-making and discuss the potential for driving long-term community impact.
The collective dialogue is expected to uncover synergies, enhance collaborative partnerships, bring together innovative solutions, and improve collaborative efforts for health strategies' effectiveness.
Day 1: Human Disease Surveillance in the Amazon
Chaired by Professor Wuelton Monteiro, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil, and Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
09:00 Overview of the One Health Concept and its Importance in the Amazon
09:10 One Health, Virus Emergence and Climate Change
Session 1: One Health in the Amazon
09:40 Surveillance in the Amazon
10:10 Healthcare Network in the Amazon
10:30 Indigenous Healthcare Network in the Amazon
10:50 Well-Being According to Baniwa Originary People
11:00 Coffee break
Session 2: Cross-Sectoral Surveillance and Community Engagement in the Amazon
11:30 Integrating Human, Animal, and Environmental Health Data
11:50 Implementation Science & Disease Surveillance
12:10 Community Surveillance in the Amazon
12:30 Lunch
Session 3: Lightning Talks from Early Career Researchers
13:30 Lightning Talks – Session 1
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Lightning Talks – Session 2
17:00 Poster Session
Day 2: Animal and environmental disease surveillance in the Amazon
Chaired by Professor Helena Lage Ferreira, President of the Brazilian Society of Virology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, FZEA-USP, University of São Paulo, and Professor Márcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA.
Session 4: Climate, Land Use, and Infectious Diseases in the Amazon
09:10 Health & Environment in Amazon
09:30 Climate Change in the Amazon
09:50 Climate Changes and Infectious Disease Emergence
10:10 Coffee break
Session 5: Animal and Environmental Health in the Amazon
10:40 Impact of Climate and Land Use Change in Vector-Borne Diseases
11:00 Arboviral Vectors and Disease in the Amazon region
11:20 Innovative Tech for Environmental & Animal Disease Surveillance in Remote Areas
11:40 Chagas Disease Surveillance in the Brazilian Amazon
12:10 Lunch
Session 6: Socioeconomic inequalities and vulnerability in the Amazon
13:10 Healthcare Accessibility in the Amazon Region
13:30 Role of Inequality and Healthcare Disparities in COVID-19 Fatality Ratios Across Brazil
13:50 Inequalities in Health System Preparedness in Brazil
14:10 Disparities in Healthcare Accessibility
14:40 Coffee Break
Session 7: Collaborative One Health Networks in the Amazon
Day 3: Detecting, characterizing and containing Disease X at the animal-human interface
Chaired by Professor Nuno Faria, Professor Virus Genomic Epidemiology, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK, and Visiting Professor at Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Session 8: Molecular diagnostic and genomic surveillance of emerging viruses the Amazon
09:10 Emerging and Re-Emerging Zoonotic Viruses in the Amazon
09:30 Deciphering Causes of Febrile Illness in the Brazilian Amazon
09:50 Molecular Epidemiology of Mayaro Virus in the Amazon
10:10 Molecular and Genomic Epidemiology of Oropouche virus
10:30 Coffee break
Session 9: New technologies for disease surveillance in remote areas
11:00 Pathogen-Agnostic Portable Whole Genome Sequencing Technologies for Disease X
11:30 Genomic Surveillance with FTA cards and Portable Virus Genomic Sequencing
12:00 Novel Temperature-Insensitive Diagnostic Tools
12:30 Lunch (with Pathogen-Agnostic Portable Sequencing Demonstration)
Session 10: Harnessing Digital Epidemiology and Epidemiological Modeling
13:30 Digital Epidemiology and One Health in the Amazon
13:40 From Data to Decision Making: Telemedicine in the Amazon
14:00 Dengue and Severe Dengue in the Amazon region
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Poster Session Awards
Day 4: Collaborative science for strengthening epidemic preparedness in the Amazon
Chaired by Dr. Camila Romano, Faculty of Medicine University and Institute of Tropical Medicine of the São Paulo, Brazil.
09:10 Panel Group Discussion: Creating Sustainable One Health Initiatives in the Amazon
10:00 Funding Opportunities for Collaborative Research in the Amazon
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Presentations, Feedback and Awards
12:20 Concluding Remarks