13 to 16 September 2020, Valenca, Spain
The 7th ESWI Influenza Conference will take place in Valencia, Spain, from 13 to 16 September 2020. Kindly save the dates in your calendar now. More information will soon be available on ESWI’s conference website: www.influenzaconference.org
18 September 2019, Barcelona Spain
ESWI satellite symposium ‘Why influenza is a dangerous disease for people with diabetes’
(55th EASD Annual Meeting 16 – 20 September 2019, Barcelona, Spain)
ESWI has secured a satellite symposium slot during the 55th EASD Annual Meeting (16-20 September, 2019), inviting Marco Goeijenbier and Luc Martinez to present a scientific symposium programme to review current and new data on influenza vaccination of people with diabetes.
This represents a unique opportunity to integrate the topic of influenza vaccination of people with diabetes in meetings and conferences of the Community partners.
Speakers:
- Marco Goeijenbier: Benefits of flu vaccination for persons with diabetes mellitus: A review
- Luc Martinez: The risk of flu in patients with diabetes
Visit the virtual reference center, containing materials supplied by the IDC members on the importance of influenza vaccination for people with diabetes.
8 May 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Joint ESPID/ESWI symposium “Influenza vaccines for children: current issues and developments”
During the 37th annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), ESWI and ESPID co-organized a satellite symposium, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The topic of the 90-minute-long session at the joint ESWI/ESPID symposium was “Influenza vaccines for children: current issues and developments”.
The event was attended by 250 people.
- Speakers included
- Ana Mosterin (Cambridge University) on “Influenza B and the rationale for Quadrivalent vaccines”
- Abdullah Brooks (Johns Hopkins) on “Childhood flu vaccination in underprivileged areas: challenges and solutions”
- Ed Belongia (Marshfield Clinic Research Institute) on “Vaccine effectiveness against H3N2 influenza virus in children”
Due to an unexpected high number of qualitative influenza abstracts submitted, the organizers decided to dedicate an entire programme session to influenza.
22 January 2019 I Chatham House, London, UK
Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Stakeholders Conference
Are we prepared for the next influenza pandemic outbreak?
ESWI and the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House kindly invite you to participate in the stakeholders conference on influenza pandemic preparedness on 22 January 2019 in London.
A hundred years ago, a pandemic of influenza virus stunned the world, killing over 50 million people worldwide. We remain vulnerable to such outbreaks, and due to the fast evolution of the virus, globalization and intercontinental travel, outbreaks on the scale of the 1918 pandemic would even today have a devastating effect. But lessons learned from the past, a century of research and international cooperation should help prepare us for future pandemics.
Watch the video-recorded lectures or the video summary of the stakeholder debate
Download the meeting report here.
The University of Cambridge organizes an informal meeting that will bring together the influenza research community from across the UK and Ireland, to present and discuss ongoing work. Information and registration at https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/iii/cvr/events/influenza/
