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Agenda
Indo-U.S. Workshop on Challenges of Emerging Infections and
Global Health Safety
Convention Centre
Indian National Science Academy (INSA)
New Delhi, India
November 18 - 20, 2014
November 18, Day 1 |
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8:00-9:00am |
Registration |
9:00-10:30am | Chair: Indira Nath |
Opening Welcome by President of INSA and Others | |
Raghavendra Gadagkar, President, INSA | |
Krishan Lal, Immediate Past President, INSA | |
Remarks by VIP Representatives |
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V.M. Katoch, Secretary, Department of Health Research (GOI) and Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, Emerging Infections on National Development | |
Amy DuBois, Health Attache, US Embassy, New Delhi | |
Diane Griffin, Vice President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) | |
Dinakar Salunke, Vice President, International Affairs, INSA | |
10:30-11:00am | Tea Break followed by group photograph |
11:00-12:00pm | Plenary, Session 1. Introduction and Framing the Issues |
Co-Chair: Indira Nath | |
Co-Chair: James LeDuc | |
Speaker, David Franz, Integrating Safety and | |
Security into the Life Sciences Enterprise | |
Discussion | |
12:00-1:00pm | Lunch |
1:00-3:00pm | Plenary, Session 2. Human Health Research; |
What are the Needs? | |
Chair, G.B. Nair | |
Speaker 1, Todd Davis, Influenza as a Global | |
Challenge for Human Health Research | |
Speaker 2, Aparna Singh Shah, WHO SEARO | |
Speaker 3, Thomas Ksiazek, Perspectives on the | |
West African Ebola Outbreak | |
Speaker 4, Ratnakar Sahoo, Ebola Control | |
Strategy - India | |
Discussant: Anuja Krishnan, Institute of | |
Molecular Medicine, Okhla, New Delhi | |
3:00-3:30pm | Tea break |
3:30-4:30pm | Plenary, Session 3. Human and Animal Health: |
The Way Ahead | |
Chair, David Franz | |
Speaker 1, David Swayne, Biocontainment | |
Solutions for Poultry Research with Veterinary and | |
Zoonotic Pathogens | |
Speaker 2, S.C. Dubey, High Security Animal | |
Disease Laboratory, Bhopal; Containment of | |
Zoonotic Infections | |
Discussion | |
4:30-6:30pm | Plenary, Session 4. The Biotech Revolution: |
Exploring new Territory Together | |
Chair Raghavendra Gadagkar | |
Speaker 1, David Relman, Emerging Capabilities | |
in the Life Sciences and Challenges for Global | |
Health | |
Speaker 2, G.B. Nair, From Genomics to Public | |
Health |
Speaker 3, Ch Mohan Rao, Innovation in Viral | |
Diagnostics for Resource Poor Situations.. | |
Speaker 4, Pawan Dhar, Challenges of Synthetic | |
Biology | |
Discussion | |
7:30 pm | Key Note Speaker, K. Vijay Raghavan, Secretary, |
DST & DBT, Govt. of India at Multipurpose Hall, | |
India International Centre (IIC), 40, Max Mueller | |
Marg, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, followed by | |
Welcome Dinner hosted by USNAS | |
November 19, Day 2 |
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9:00-11:00am |
Plenary, Session 5. Laboratory Regulatory |
Oversight; Finding the Balance | |
Chair, T.S. Rao | |
Speaker 1, S.R. Rao / Nitin Jain, Indian | |
Regulations in Animal and Human Health Safety. | |
Speaker 2, John Kenneth, Laboratory Regulatory | |
Oversight for BSL 3 Laboratories.. | |
Speaker 3, Thomas Ksiazek, Laboratory | |
Regulatory Oversight for BSL 4 Laboratories | |
Speaker 4, Vasantha Muthuswamy, Ethical | |
Guidelines, Codes and Equity in Human Health | |
Research | |
Discussion | |
11:00-11:30am | Tea Break |
11:30am-1:00pm | Plenary, Session 6. Applying and Using New |
Tools and Knowledge Safely. | |
Chair, Joseph Kanabrocki | |
Speaker 1, D.D. Kulkarni, Practical Issues to be | |
Addressed for Biosafety and Biosecurity in India | |
Speaker 2, Robert Martin, Management of | |
Biosafety Practices - Creating a Sustainable | |
Culture of Safety | |
Speaker 3, B.M. Subramanian, Tamil Nadu | |
Veterinary and Animal Sciences University | |
(TANUVAS), Translational Platform for | |
Veterinary Biologicals |
Speaker 4, Joseph Kanabrocki, Public Outreach | |
on Biosafety | |
Discussion | |
1:00pm | Lunch |
2:00-3:30pm | Breakout A (three concurrent), Session 7. |
(open to all participants, indicate choice) | |
1. Research of concern on new pathogens. | |
Regulations and codes of ethics. | |
Chairs: David Relman, Rapporteur: Jens Kuhn | |
(Convention Centre) | |
2. Strengthening management practices to support | |
biosafety in laboratories. | |
Chair: Robert Martin, Rapporteur: Gray Handley | |
(Lecture Hall, Convention Centre) | |
3. Levels of Biocontainment facilities: Answering | |
research questions at economically viable | |
containment levels or with alternate methods. | |
Chair: Jaya Tyagi Rapporteur: Ashley Grant | |
(Multipurpose Hall, Jubilee Building) | |
3:30-4:00pm | Tea break |
4:00-5:30pm | Breakout B (three concurrent), Session 8. |
(open to all participants, indicate choice) | |
1. Sustainability of surveillance laboratories: | |
Cutting costs without compromising safety. Chair: | |
Rakesh Bhatnagar Rapporteur: H.K. Prasad | |
(Convention Centre) | |
2. Diagnostic and field laboratories: Safety | |
considerations for transportation of diagnostic | |
samples and in emergencies situations. Chair: S.K. | |
Tripathy, Rapporteur: U.D. Gupta (Lecture Hall, | |
Convention Centre) | |
3. Laboratory accidents and Laboratory-Acquired | |
Infections (LAIs): Response, reporting, and | |
planning. Chair: Karen Byers (Multipurpose Hall, | |
Jubilee Building) |
6:00pm | Key Note Speaker, Raghavendra Gadagkar, |
President, INSA, On War and Peace at INSA | |
Auditorium followed by Dinner at INSA hosted | |
by President INSA. | |
November 20, Day 3 |
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9:00-10:00am |
Plenary, Session 9. Six Reports from Breakout |
Group Rapporteurs | |
Discussion | |
10:00-10:30am | Tea Break |
10:30-11:30am | Plenary, Session 10. Management of Natural |
Disasters | |
Chair: Indira Nath | |
Speaker 1, Muzzafar Ahmad, Infections in | |
Disaster Management. | |
Discussion | |
11:30am-1:00pm | Plenary Session 11 Collaboration and Going |
Forward in Partnership | |
Co-Chair, T.S. Rao | |
Co-Chair, Diane Griffin | |
Speaker 1, N.K. Ganguly, Biaosafety needs and | |
partnerships | |
Speaker 2, Norman Neureiter, The Indo-U.S. | |
Science and Technology Forum: Going Forward in | |
Partnership | |
Speaker 3, S.R. Rao, Opportunities in Regulatory | |
Sciences | |
1:00-2:00pm | Lunch |
2:00-2:30pm | Closing Discussion |
Final thoughts from the co-chairs and participants. | |
Co-Chair, Indira Nath | |
Co-Chair, James LeDuc | |
2:30-3:00pm Formal Adjournment of Workshop | |
Dinakar Salunke, Vice-President, International | |
Affairs, INSA | |
Diane Griffin, Vice President, USNAS | |
3:00pm | Tea |