Second International Conference on Dengue Fever
Phuket, Thailand - The Conference will serve as a forum for exchanging comprehensive information, practical experience, new skills and techniques and for conceptualizing and integrating approaches to the prevention and control of the disease.
The Conference will take place at the Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort & Spa in Phuket Thailand, from 15-17 October 2008. The theme of this conference is “Global Innovation to Fight Dengue”
The Conference will serve as a forum for exchanging comprehensive information, practical experience, new skills and techniques and for conceptualizing and integrating approaches to the prevention and control of the disease.
Priorities for research needed to contain the spread of the virus and its vectors will be defined and agreed upon, all with the aim of reducing morbidity and mortality in endemic countries. Improved surveillance and better estimation of disease burden will be examined, along with methods of improving public commitment to the control and eventual elimination of the disease, a major threat to public health around the world.
The Conference will consist of lectures by noted authorities, plenary sessions and symposia including invited speakers, oral and poster presentations and scientific and trade exhibitions. We expect 800 participants from around the globe.
Major topics will include pathophysiology, diagnosis, clinical management, epidemiological surveillance, laboratory aspects, vector biology, ecology and control, advocacy for social and community commitment, viro-molecular considerations, and vaccine development. Participants are encouraged to submit papers focusing on one or more of these topics, or to form a new topic area if there is sufficient interest.
Language : The official language of the Conference is English
Organizer :
Co-organizers : Bureau of Vector Borne Disease,
Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
World Health Organization (WHO)
* Regional Office for South East Asia (SEARO)
* Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)
The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO), Bangkok, Thailand
Conference Secretariat : Dengue Conference Secretariat
Bureau of Vector Borne Diseases
Department of Disease Control
Ministry of Public Health
Tiwanon Road, Muang Nonthaburi 11000,Thailand
E-mail : [email protected]
Website: www.dengue2008phuket.com
Fund Raising Center
Any benefactors who would like to donate or share or buy the exhibition booth in this conference Please Contact :
Miss Naraporn Khuanyoung
* Bureau of Vector Borne Disease
* Department of Disease Control
* Ministry of Public Health
* Nonthaburi 11000. Thailand
* Tel : 02-5903137
* Fax : 02-5918422
* E-mail : [email protected]
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