Programme
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14 July – 18 July 2025
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University of Hong Kong
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HK$3,500 (Includes accommodation)
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Apply by 18 July 2025
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Fully booked
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Past
1st Day
08:15 – 08:30
Registration
08:30 – 08:45
Welcome and course introduction
08:45 – 10:45
Participants’ self-presentation
10:45 – 11:00
Tea break
11:00 – 12:30
Lecture 1
Emerging viruses: current challenges in preparedness and response
Christian Drosten
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Lecture 2
The emergence of H5N1 influenza viruses in Asia
Malik Peiris
15:30 – 15:45
Tea break
15:45 – 17:30
Workshop 1
Monitoring, surveillance and risk assessment of emerging threats
Theme 1: Ecology, evolution and inter-species transmission of avian H5N1 influenza viruses - Ray So, HKU
Theme 2: Pathogenesis, host response and innate-immunity - Marcus Mah, Duke, Singapore
Theme 3: Epidemiology of avian influenza and disease modelling, Marcus Shum, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D24H), Hong Kong
Theme 4: Clinical disease, diagnostics and therapeutics - Alex Chin, HKU
Theme 5: Vaccine development - Te, Nigeer, HKU
17:30 – 20:30
Welcome dinner
2nd Day
09:00 – 10:30
Lecture 3
The ecology of influenza viruses
Vijay Dhanasekaran
10:30 – 10:45
Tea break
10:45 – 12:15
Lecture 4
Evolution of influenza viruses
Vijay Dhanasekaran
12:15 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Lecture 5
Mammalian adaptation of influenza viruses
Sander Herfst
15:00 – 15:15
Tea Break
15:15 – 19:00
Workshop 2
Virus ecology: the One Health concept
3rd Day
09:00 – 10:30
Lecture 6
History, clinical and molecular epidemiology, ecology and current evolution of Mpox
Antoine Gessain
10:30 – 10:45
Tea break
10:45 – 12:15
Lecture 7
Epidemiology of influenza
Nancy Leung
12:15 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Lecture 8
Transmission of influenza viruses
Hui Ling Yen
15:00 – 15:15
Tea Break
15:15 – 17:00
Workshop 3
Virus transmission
4th Day
09:00 – 10:30
Lecture 9
Mathematical modeling in outbreaks and pandemics
Simon Cauchemez
10:30 – 10:45
Tea break
10:45 – 12:15
Lecture 10
Epidemiology and genomic surveillance after the detection of a novel Mpox Clade Ib virus
Bas Oude Munnink
12:15 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 17:30
Workshop 4
Immune response dynamics to infections and vaccinations
18:00 – 20:00
Social event - Horse racing at Happy Valley
5th Day
09:00 – 10:30
Lecture 11
Anthropology of epidemic emergences
Tamara Giles-Vernick
10:30 – 10:45
Tea break
10:45 – 12:15
Lecture 12
Immune response to influenza infection and vaccination
Sook San Wong
12:15 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 16:45
Exam
Matters arising from workshops 1 – 4
18:45 – 20:45
Closing dinner
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