Mérieux Foundation event
4th Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and North Africa Rabies Expert Bureau (MEEREB) Meeting
April 23-25, 2018 - Les Pensieres Center for Global Health, Veyrier-du-Lac (France)
Summary
The meeting brought together members of the regional network of rabies experts for two and a half days, allowing them to interact and share ideas about how to improve rabies control and prevention in their respective countries. It provided an opportunity for participants to compare experiences and explore ways to translate state-of-the-art knowledge into practice.
By organizing this encounter, we wished to foster connections and collaboration among member countries, international partners, representatives of the public and private sectors, and policy makers. Such cooperation makes it possible to develop a common vison, shared goals and the impetus for future interventions in the field of rabies control and prevention.
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Day 1 Monday April 23
Day 2 Tuesday April 24
Day 3 Wednesday April 25
Session 1: Rabies epidemiology - beyond the current situation to data harmonization efforts
Chairs: Lea KNOPF & Louis NEL
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8:00 - 9:30
Rapid-fire poster presentations - Algeria
Fazia MAHIOUT
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8:00 - 9:30
Rapid-fire poster presentations - Croatia
Radovan VODOPIJA
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8:00 - 9:30
Rapid-fire poster presentations - Georgia
Paata IMNADZE
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9:50 - 11:30
Rapid-fire poster presentations - Morocco
Abdelaziz BARKIA
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9:50 - 11:30
Rapid-fire poster presentations - Palestine
Nasr AL QADI
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9:50 - 11:30
Rapid-fire poster presentations - Ukraine
Vitalii NEDOSEKOV
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12:10 - 12:30
OIE official notification of animal Rabies: WAHIS
Gregorio TORRES
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12:30 - 12:50
Tools to capture data at point of vaccination: Rabies Data Collector
Andre COETZER
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12:50 - 13:10
GARC epidemiological bulleting - how it works: The Paracon example
Terence SCOTT
Session 2: International guidelines - updates
Chairs: Firouzeh FARAHTAJ & Victor del RIO
Session 3: Educational platforms & resources
Chairs: April JOHNSON & Herve BOURHY
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9:20 - 9:40
OIE terrestrial code e-learning modules
Valentina PICOT & Gregorio TORRES
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9:55 - 10:20
Stepwise Approach towards Rabies Elimination and its linkage to the Rabies Blueprint
Andre COETZER
Session 4: Cross-sectoral collaboration efforts - where are we?
Chairs: Valentina Picot & Radovan Vodopija
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13:40 - 14:00
Global strategic plan to eliminated dog-mediated rabies by 2030
Gregorio TORRES