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1 Time Thursday 14 July 2011 Time Friday 15 July :45 Registration at Auditorium Foyer 07:45 Registration at Auditorium Foyer 08:15 Welcome by Executive Director NICD and Program Introduction by - Esron Karimuribo; Statement from WHO, FAO, OIE, SADC & AU-IBAR Theme 5 INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE Chair: George Dautu Theme 1 EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES Chair: Esron Karimuribo and Pascal Lutumba 08:15 Christopher J. Kasanga et al. Molecular biological characteristics of Foot-and-Mouth Disease viruses collected in Tanzania from 1967 to :45 Hang'ombe Bernard et al. Identification of the plague reservoir in an endemic area of Zambia 08:30 Yona Sinkala et al. Foot and Mouth Disease control in Zambia a review of the current situation 09:00 Katendi Changula et al. Filoviral haemorrhagic fevers: a threat to Zambia? 08:45 Raphael Sallu et al. Incidences of Foot-and-Mouth Disease serotypes detected in Tanzania from 2003 to :15 Sabue Mulangu et al. High prevalence of IgG antibodies to Ebola virus in Pygmy population in Watsa Region, DR Congo 09:00 Fredrick Kivaria. A Semi Quantitative Risk Assessment of Factors Contributing to Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreaks in zero-grazed dairy cattle in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania

2 09:30 Janusz Paweska et al. Ebola haemorrhagic fever ecostudy in Luebo District, West Kasai Province, DRC 09:15 Epaphras, A.M. et al. Epidemiological investigation of introduction and factors for spread of peste des petits ruminants in the southern Tanzania 09:45 Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum. Ebola Virus outbreaks in Africa : Past and Present 09:30 Christopher Kasanga et al. Genomic sequence of Infectious Bursal Disease Virus isolate from Zambia: Classical attenuated segment B Reassortment in nature with existing very virulent segment A 10:00 KEYNOTE PAPER: Barry Schoub. Zoonotic disease and human health: The human influeza example 09:45 Benjamin Mogoye. Human cystic echinococcosis in South Africa 10:30 COFFEE/TEA 10:00 KEYNOTE PAPER: Jonathan Rushton et al. Economic benefits/drivers of a 'One Health' approach: why should anyone invest? 10:55 Theme 2 CLIMATE OR WEATHER DEPENDENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES Chair: Erasto Mbugi George Dautu et al. Rift valley fever: Real or perceived threat for Zambia? (Review) 10:30 COFFEE/TEA Theme 6 TOWARDS ONE HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH and TRAINING Chair: Christopher Kasanga

3 11:10 Calvin Sindato et al. The epidemiology and impact of rift valley fever in Tanzania: a review 11:00 Kim Kayunze et al. A socio-economic approach to One Health policy research. 11:25 Mbi Tanga et al. Effect of climatic factors on the altitudinal structuring of malaria vectors in the southwest region of Cameroon: Implications for malaria control 11:15 Esron Karimuribo et al. Resource mapping and emergency preparedness to emerging and re-emerging diseases in human and animal populations in Kibaha and Ngorongoro districts, Tanzania. 11:40 Antoinette Grobbelaar et al. Molecular Epidemiology of Recent Outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever in South Africa 11:30 Coetzer JAW et al. OIE collaborating centre for integrated training in livestock and wildlife health and management 11:55 Petrus Jansen van Vuren et al. Immune Activation on a Gene Expression Level by Rift Valley Fever Virus Pathogenesis Markers during Acute Infection in Mice 11:45 Paul Gwakisa et al. Training in One Health Molecular Biology in Africa 12:10 KEYNOTE PAPER: Lucille Blumberg et al. One Health: Rift Valley fever outbreaks in South Africa, :00 Martin Simuunza et al. One Health Training: MSc Analytical epidemiology at the University of Zambia 12:30 KEYNOTE PAPER: Polly Roy - Recognizing emerging Pathogens through their Structure-Function 12:15 Luis Neves. One Health Training at Eduardo Mondlane University 13:15 LUNCH 12:30 KEYNOTE PAPER: Hazel Dockrell - "One Heath - joining the dots"

4 14:00 Theme 3 INTER-SPECIES SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES Chair: Bernard Hang'ombe Erasto Mbugi et al. Tuberculosis Cross-Transmission In Tanzania: A To and Fro Fashion In Pathogen Flow and Disease Dynamics Across Human, Livestock and Wildlife Species 13:00 LUNCH Theme 7 THE ONE HEALTH SACIDS GRAND DEBATE Chair: Mark Rweyemamu and Hazel Dockrell 14:15 Bugwesa Katale et al. Bovine tuberculosis at the human-livestock-wildlife interface: Is it a public health problem in Tanzania? A review 14:00 Joe Brownlie. Lessons from Foresight study on Infectious Diseases 14:30 Veneranda Bwana et al. Smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis among HIV patients receiving Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 14:15 Martyn Jeggo. Lessons from the 1st One Health International Conference 14:45 Geldenhuys et al. Characterization of Coronaviruses in association with several African bat species 14:30 Jakob Zinsstag. From Two Medicines to One Medicine to One Health 15:00 Anastasia N. Trataris et al. Bartonella spp. in human and animal populations in Gauteng, South Africa, :50 Michael Kock. One Health realities for the Wildlife- Livestock-Human so-called interface in Africa 15:15 KEYNOTE PAPER: Anita Michel et al. The African Buffalo as a Villain for inter-species spread of infectious diseases in Southern Africa 15:05 Janusz Paweska. SACIDS Inter-institutional Collaborative approach towards DIM of Dangerous Pathogens. Dellile Wessels and NatCIDS Coordinators

5 15:35 COFFEE/TEA 15:20 Hirofumi Sawa et al. The research activities of the Research Center for Zoonosis Control in Africa Theme 4 DISEASE SURVEILLANCE, DIAGNOSTICS Chair: Kim Kayunze 15:35 AFENET Approach to One Health - David Mukanga 16:00 Esron Karimuribo et al. Towards One Health disease surveillance: The Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) approach 15:50 AFRIQUE One Approach to One Health - One health : Fashion or pragmatic option? Bassirou Bonfoh 16:15 Kuya Sayalel et al. The current status of human and animal health disease surveillance systems in Tanzania: A case study in Ngorongoro district 16:05 Mark Rweyemamu et al. Towards One Africa, One Health: The SACIDS One Health focus on infectious diseases 16:30 Justin Masumu et al. An attempt to correlate Molecular and biological variability of Trypanosome Isolates 16:20 OPEN DISCUSSION 16:45 Wahl, T.G. et al. Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) 17:00 COFFEE/TEA 17:00 Irwin Chavez. Application of GIS in monitoring drug resistance along the Thai-Cambodian border 17:30 One Health: Towards Safeguarding the Health, Food Security and Economic Welfare of Communities - David Nabarro

6 17:15 KEYNOTE PAPER: David Aanensen et al. EpiCollect: An open mobile/web framework for data collection 18:00 Closing remarks: Esron Karimuribo & the organizing committee 17:35 KEYNOTE PAPER: Donald King et al. New technologies to detect and monitor infectious diseases 18:20 END 18:10 END 19:00 Social Event (NICD/OVI)

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