8h30 Registration & Welcome
9h Welcome
- Isabella Eckerle, Director, Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases,
- Pauline Vetter, Deputy Director, Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases
9h15 Opening words
- Antoine Geissbühler, Dean, Medical Faculty, University of Geneva
- Klara Posfay-Barbe, Medical Director, Geneva University Hospitals
9h35 Emerging viruses and health crisis due to infectious diseases – The perspective of WHO
Abdi Rahman Mahamud, Director of Alert and Response Coordination Department of the WHO's Emergencies Health Program, WHO Geneva
10h A research journey through emerging viruses
Gary Kobinger, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
10h25 Coffee break
11h Viral Hemorrhagic Fever: An Outdated Concept and Moniker?
Dan Bausch, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland & National University of Singapore
11h25 Emerging viruses in Switzerland – the perspective of the OFSP
Parham Sendi, Head of Communicable Diseases Division, Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland
11h50 Hot topic – to be announced shortly before the event
12h15 Fingerfood lunch
13h Mpox – the return of smallpox?
Laurent Kaiser, Infectious Diseases Division, Geneva University Hospitals
13h35 Travel medicine in the last 10 years
François Chappuis, Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals
14h Innovation and new approaches in vaccinology
Arnaud Didierlaurent, Centre of Vaccinology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva
14h25 Enteroviruses – past and present, emerging and endemic
Caroline Tapparel, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva
14h50 Coffee break
15h20 GeTRIV: Geneva Translational Research in Infections and Vaccination
Benjamin Meyer, Centre of Vaccinology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva (on behalf of the GeTRIV founding institutions)
15.45h A decade of the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases: A 360° tour of the activities
- Isabella Eckerle
- Manuel Schibler
- Pauline Vetter
- Frédérique Jacquerioz-Bausch
Andrew Azman
16h45 Closing words
Robert Mardini tbc CEO, Geneva University Hospitals
17.00h Apero