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Programme

  • 14 July — 18 July 2025

  • HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, University of Hong Kong

  • HK$3,500 (Includes accommodation)

  • Apply by 3 April 2025

1st Day
08:30 — 08:45
Registration
08:45 — 09:00
Welcome and course introduction
09:00 — 10:45
Participants’ self-presentation
10:45 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:45
Lecture 1

Emerging viruses: current challenges in preparedness and response

Christian Drosten

12:45 — 14:15
Lunch
14:15 — 16:00
Lecture 2

The emergence of H5N1 influenza viruses in Asia

Malik Peiris

16:00 — 16:30
Tea break
16:30 — 18:00
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

18:00 — 21:00
Welcome dinner
2nd Day
09:00 — 10:45
Lecture 3

The ecology of influenza viruses

Vijay Dhanasekaran

10:45 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:45
Lecture 4

Evolution of influenza viruses

Vijay Dhanasekaran

12:45 — 14:15
Lunch
14:15 — 16:00
Lecture 5

Mammalian adaptation of influenza viruses 

Sander Herfst

16:00 — 16:30
Tea Break
16:30 — 18:15
Workshop 2

Virus ecology: the One Health concept

3rd Day
09:00 — 10:45
Lecture 6

History, clinical and molecular epidemiology, ecology and current evolution of Mpox

Antoine Gessain

10:45 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:45
Lecture 7

Epidemiology of influenza

Nancy Leung

12:45 — 14:15
Lunch
14:15 — 16:00
Lecture 8

Transmission of influenza viruses

Hui Ling Yen

16:00 — 16:30
Tea Break
16:30 — 18:15
Workshop 3

Virus transmission

4th Day
09:00 — 10:45
Lecture 9

Immune response to influenza infection and vaccination

Sook San Wong

10:45 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:45
Lecture 10

Epidemiology and genomic surveillance after the detection of a novel Mpox Clade Ib virus

Bas Oude Munnink

12:45 — 14:15
Lunch
14:15 — 18:00
Workshop 4

Immune response dynamics to infections and vaccinations

18:30 — 20:30
Social event - Horse racing at Happy Valley
5th Day
09:00 — 10:45
Lecture 11

Anthropology of epidemic emergences

Tamara Giles-Vernick

10:45 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:45
Lecture 12

Mathematical modelling in outbreaks and pandemics

Simon Cauchemez

12:45 — 14:15
Lunch
14:15 — 17:30
Exam

Matters arising from workshops 1 – 4

19:30 — 21:30
Closing dinner

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