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Fourth International Meeting on the Control of Neglected Zoonotic
Diseases (NZDs)
From Advocacy to Action: 4th International Meeting on the Control of
Neglected Zoonotic Diseases
WHO Executive Board Room, 19 and 20 November 2014
Objectives:
 Showcase successfully implemented programmes and track progress since the previous three
international NZD meetings
 Identify ways in which to achieve the NZD milestones as specified in the WHO roadmap
 Explore ways in which current control interventions can be extended to include other NZDs
 Increase awareness of NZDs through promotion of health education and communication
 Launch the Pan-African platform for the prevention and control of NZDs
 Influence leaders, in particular key policy makers and donors, to increase commitment to actions
to control NZDs
Updated meeting documents will be posted here as they become available:
http://www.advanz.org/nzd4-meeting-materials
Password: geneva2014
From Advocacy to Action: 4th International Meeting on the Control of
Neglected Zoonotic Diseases
WHO Executive Board Room, 19 and 20 November 2014
Day 1: 19th November
Time
08.30-09.00
Title and presenter
Registration
Meeting with session chairs
Session 1. Welcome and scene setting
Chair: Professor Peter Holmes, Chair of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected
Tropical Diseases (STAG-NTD)
Objectives: Set the scene of the NZDs in the tripartite. Update on progress from previous NZD meetings. Set the
scene for the meeting
Target outcomes: audience will understand purpose of this meeting and appreciate the importance of NZDs
Background material: reports of previous meetings, disease briefs
09.00-09.20
Welcome and opening remarks
Dr H. Nakatani
Assistant Director General, WHO
Dr Katinka de Balogh
Senior Officer, Veterinary Public Health, FAO
Dr Alex Thiermann
President, Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission, World Organisation for Animal
Health, OIE
09.20-09.35
NZDs in the NTDs
Dr Dirk Engels
Director NTD, WHO
09.35-09.50
Zoonotic diseases and the WHO, OIE, FAO tripartite
Dr Katinka de Balogh on behalf of the WHO, OIE, FAO tripartite
Senior Officer, Veterinary Public Health, FAO
09:50-10.05
Keynote Speaker
Professor Be-Nazir Ahmed
Public Health and Infectious Disease Specialist Director, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
Bangladesh
10.05-10.10
Honourable Deputy Secretary, Manoj Kumar Roy
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh
10.10-10.20
Honourable Minister, Rwamirama K. Bright
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Uganda
10.20-10.30
Wrap up of opening session
10.30-11.00
Coffee break (Group photo outside meeting room)
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Title and presenter
Panel
Session 2. The value of intersectoral working (One Health)
Chair: Professor Paul Gibbs, University of Florida, USA Co-Chair: Professor Sue Welburn, University of
Edinburgh
Objectives: to show the value of intersectoral collaboration and the benefit of One Health platforms
Target outcomes: attending participants will understand the value of intersectoral collaboration and may seek
to develop One Health platforms within countries
Background material: The FAO-OIE-WHO Collaboration: Sharing responsibilities and coordinating global
activities to address health risks at the
animal-human-ecosystems interfaces
11.00-11.20
Introduction to intersectoral collaboration and One
Dr Yuichi Kishita
Health
Deputy Director, International Animal
Professor Paul Gibbs
Health Affairs Office,
University of Florida
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, Japan
Introduction to clicker questions
Dr Julius Keyyu
11.20-11.30
Launch of Pan-African OH NZD platform
One Health in Central and eastern Africa
Professor Samson Mukaratirwa
(OHCEA)
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute
11.30-11.40
One Health at the Ministerial level
Professor Peter Holmes
Dr Austine Orinde
Chair, First WHO stakeholders meeting
ZDU Kenya, One Health Initiative
on rhodesiense human African
11.40-11.50
Control of Trypanosomiasis in Uganda (COCTU)
trypanosomiasis.
Professor Charles Waiswa
COCTU Uganda
Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder
Team Leader, NZD, WHO
11.50-12.00
Pan American Health Organization’s PANAFTOSA
work on zoonosis in the region
Dr Katinka de Balogh
Dr Victor Del Rio
Senior Officer, Veterinary Public Health,
PANAFTOSA, Brazil
FAO
12.00-12.30
Panel and discussion
- Can a One Health platform be established in Dr Alex Thiermann
your country?
President, Terrestrial Animal Health
- Are there tangible benefits in operations of
Standards Commission, World
this shift in paradigm with OH?
Organisation for Animal Health, OIE
- Are there barriers in operations of this shift
in paradigm with OH? Solutions?
12.30-14.00
Clicker questions for feedback
Lunch and exhibits / posters
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WHO Executive Board Room, 19 and 20 November 2014
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Title and presenter
14.30-14.40
A Global Campaign for Rabies Elimination
Professor Louis Nel
Global Alliance for Rabies Control
14.40-14.50
Dealing with Hydatid in Morocco and dog integrated
packages
Dr Soaud Bouhout
Ministry of Health, Morocco
14.50-15.00
Echinococcosis control in Mongolia
Dr Bolor Bold
Ministry of Health, Mongolia
15.00-15.30
Panel and discussion
- Why are dogs not being vaccinated?
- How can we overcome under-reporting?
- Training of rural health workers to spot signs
and symptoms and reduce misdiagnosis
- Improve access to treatment
Panel
Session 3. Interventions for dog-borne diseases
Chair: Professor Be-Nazir Ahmed, Ministry of Health, Bangladesh Co Chair: Professor Louis Nel, Global
Alliance for Rabies Control
Objectives: explore interventions to target dog-transmitted NZDs. Tools exist for effective rabies control, why
are these not being more widely utilised and implemented?
Target outcomes: make policy makers think about “why dogs are not being vaccinated in your country” and
options for population management
Background material: disease briefs for rabies and echinococcosis
14.00-14.10
Introduction to control of dog-borne NZDs
Dr Simeon S. Amurao
Professor Be-Nazir Ahmed
Chief Veterinary Officer, Philippines
Ministry of Health, Bangladesh
Dr Luke Gamble
14.10-14.20
A stepwise approach to rabies elimination
Mission Rabies, WVS
Dr Katinka de Balogh
Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder
Senior Officer, Veterinary Public Health, FAO
Team Leader, NZD, WHO
14.20-14.30
Rabies elimination and dog bite prevention, lessons
from BMGF rabies control programme
Dr Katinka de Balogh
Mr Daniel Stewart
Senior Officer, Veterinary Public Health,
Rabies proof of concept project KZN
FAO
15.30-16.00
Dr Alex Thiermann
President, Terrestrial Animal Health
Standards Commission, World
Organisation for Animal Health, OIE
Clicker questions for feedback
Coffee break
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Session 4. Control of parasitic zoonotic NTDs
Chair: Dr Banchob Sripa, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control of Opisthorchiasis, Thailand CoChair: Professor Maria Vang Johansen, WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training on Neglected
and other Parasitic Zoonoses
Objectives: using the examples of cysticercosis and trematodes to highlight evidence-based control.
Highlighting a range of control options and how policy can be determined when there are a range of available
options
Target outcomes: audience will be aware of available interventions for these diseases and the need for a One
Health approach
Background material: disease briefs for cysticercosis, foodborne trematodes
16.00-16.10
Introduction to control of parasitic zoonotic NTDs
Dr Nguyen Thu Thuy
Chief Veterinary Officer, Vietnam
Dr Banchob Sripa
WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control
Ms Kate Medlicott
of Opisthorchiasis
Sanitary engineer and sanitation team
leader
16.10-16.20
Report on WHO informal consultation on
Water Sanitation Hygiene and Health,
cysticercosis
WHO
Professor Eric Fèvre
University of Liverpool
16.20-16.30
16.30-16.40
16.40-17.30
18.10
Health education as a specific intervention tool
Professor Isaac Phiri
University of Zambia
Cysticercosis control in Peru; moving from research
to programme
Dr Armando Gonzalez
National University of San Marcos, Peru
Panel and discussion
- Country situation analysis- where to start
- How to make policy choices of interventions?
- Balancing ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’
approaches?
- How to work closer with human
hygiene/sanitation to acquire added benefits
for to these diseases?
Professor Marshall Lightowlers
Principal Research Fellow
National Health and Medical Research
Council of Australia
Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder
Team Leader, NZD, WHO
Dr Katinka de Balogh
Senior Officer, Veterinary Public Health,
FAO
Dr Alex Thiermann
President, Terrestrial Animal Health
Standards Commission, World
Organisation for Animal Health, OIE
Clicker questions for feedback
Drinks reception
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Day 2: 20th November
Time
Title and presenter
Panel
08.30-09.00
Meeting with session chairs
Session 5. Forgotten Bacteria – from silent suffering to recurrent epidemics
Chair: Dr Rudovick Kazwala, Sokoine University of Agriculture Co-Chair: Dr François Meslin Consultant and
former WHO Team Leader, NZD WHO
Objectives: describe the impact of the bacterial zoonoses – brucellosis, bovine TB and anthrax. These are
diseases that are not included in the WHO 17 NTDs, they are under diagnosed and under-reported and the aim of
this session is to explore this and contributory factors
Target outcomes: increase advocacy for these diseases, address under-reporting
Background material: disease briefs for brucellosis, bovine TB and anthrax
09.00-09.10
Short recap of Day 1.
Dr Nguyen Thu Thuy
Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder
Chief Veterinary Officer, Vietnam
Team Leader, NZD, WHO
Professor Gift Matope
Head of Department, University of
09.10-09.20
Introduction to Bacterial Zoonoses - overview of
Zimbabwe, Faculty of Veterinary Science
policy briefs
Dr Rudovick Kazwala
Dr Awa Aidara-Kane
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Coordinator, Foodborne and Zoonotic
Diseases, WHO
09.20-09.30
Inter-sectorial work in Mongolia on Brucellosis
Dr Felix Roth
Dr Adrian Whatmore
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Deputy Head, Bacteriology Department
09.30-09.40
Burden of brucellosis
Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
Dr Anna S. Dean
WHO
Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder
09.40-09.50
Brucellosis outbreak in Syria
Team Leader, NZD, WHO
Dr Mostafa Turkmani
Ministry of Health, Syria
Dr Katinka de Balogh
09.50-10.30
Panel and discussion
Senior Officer, Veterinary Public Health,
- Why are these diseases under diagnosed and FAO
under-reported?
Clicker questions for feedback
10.30-11.00
Dr Alex Thiermann
President, Terrestrial Animal Health
Standards Commission, World
Organisation for Animal Health, OIE
Coffee break
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Session 6. Financing for NZDs
Chair: Honourable Rwamirama K. Bright Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Uganda Co-Chair:
Professor Ian Maudlin, The University of Edinburgh
Objectives: discuss the available funding options and introduce innovative financing mechanisms for
surveillance and control
Target outcomes: policy makers will be aware of financing options available, and of the need to prioritise NZDs
in order to receive funding for control
11.00-11.10
Introduction to Financing for NZDs
Dr Louise Savell
Director, Social Finance Ltd
Honourable Rwamirama K. Bright
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries,
Uganda
11.10-11.20
11.20-11.30
European Union funding addressing NZD: Research
Framework, Programmes and Development and
Cooperation Actions
Dr Luis Vivas-Alegre
DG Research (EC)
Development Impact Bonds
Dr Paul Coleman
H2O Venture Partner
Professor Idriss Oumar Alfaroukh
Institut de recherches en élevage pour
le développement (IRED)
Tchad
Dr Yuichi Kishita
Deputy Director, International Animal
Health Affairs Office,
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, Japan
11.30-11.40
The Gates Foundation and Social Finance
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (TBC)
Mr Christopher Fitzpatrick
NTD Economist, WHO
11.40-11.50
Dr Peter Stevenson
UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
Council (BBSRC)
Panel and discussion
- What is needed for endemic zoonotic
diseases priorities in the Country
Cooperation Strategies and Blue Book for
your country?
- What would you do with increased funding
for NZD control?
- Would a DIB be applicable?
Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder
Team Leader, NZD, WHO
12.00-12.30
Dr Katinka de Balogh
Senior Officer, Veterinary Public Health,
FAO
Dr Alex Thiermann
President, Terrestrial Animal Health
Standards Commission, World
Organisation for Animal Health, OIE
Clicker questions for feedback
12.30-14.00
Lunch and exhibits / posters
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Title and presenter
Session 7. Beyond NZD4
Chair: Chair: Professor Peter Holmes, Chair STAG-NTD Co-Chair: Professor Paul Gibbs, University of Florida
Objectives: Discuss next steps
Target outcomes: determine the priorities and conclusions for operationalization of country programmes and
transitioning of research results, address next steps
Background material: Questionnaires, briefing document
14.00-14.20
Final clicker session and synthesis of all Clicker Sessions
Professor Paul Gibbs
University of Florida
14.20-15.20
15.20-15.30
15.30-16.00
Dr Tineke Kramer
Utrecht University
Round up, final discussions / questions and close
All session Chairs
Official Closing
Coffee
In Coffee Space – Videos playing at break times, Main Room screen
FAO Uganda video
Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFtilUyJpz0
http://www.stampoutsleepingsickness.com/media/video-gallery/sosproject-2016.aspx
Rabies elimination in the Philippines
In Coffee Space – Displays/demonstrations in the Foyer area
The Vicious Worm
ICONZ
ADVANZ
Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa
GARC
http://www.theviciousworm.org/
http://www.iconzafrica.org/
http://www.advanz.org/
http://steps-centre.org/project/drivers_of_disease/
http://rabiesalliance.org/
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