The MEDVETNET2015 CONFERENCE
The Med-Vet-Net Association for Zoonoses Research will hold its 4th International Scientific Meeting,
MedVetNet2015, on the 8th and 9th October 2015 at the headquarters of The French Agency for Food,
Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) at Maisons Alfort, South East of Paris, France.
The focus of the meeting is Global Challenges in Zoonoses: Combating Emerging Threats using a One-Health
Approach.
The Scientific Symposia of MedVetNet2015 conference will be will be preceded on 7th October by a workshop
on Q-PCR aimed at young or technical scientists and students and this will be followed by an evening Welcome
reception open to all delegates.
This meeting is for public health, food and veterinary scientists and stakeholders interested in One-Health
approaches to tackling the challenges and emerging threats associated with zoonoses. Zoonootic organisms
and associated antimicrobial resistances are emerging, or re-emerging, to become significant challenges as our
world and environment changes. MedVetNet2015 will address a number of new and emerging threats under 4
main symposia:

Epidemiology: Surveillance and Risk Analysis

Emerging, Re-emerging and neglected zoonoses

Globalisation and climate impacts

Emerging challenges to one-health approaches for combating AMR in zoonotic organisms
Abstracts are invited on the above topics and in each oral session there will be a selected number of oral
presentations selected from submitted abstracts.
There will in addition be a student oral presentation session to be held on the morning of Friday 9th October
2015. This will be a mixed topic session and students who would like to participate should make sure that they
select the relevant boxes in the abstract submission website. Abstract submission is now open with a closing
date of 30th June
How to register for the conference
Please see here for a Programme outline
Confirmed Speakers include:
Plenary
Dr Hilde Kruse, Programme manager for the Food safety WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Jean-Luc Angot, Chief Veterinary Officer of France,
Deputy Director General, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Paris, France
Epidemiological Surveillance and Risk Analysis
Professor Dilys Morgan, Public Health England
Dr Eva Møller Nielsen, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen Denmark
Emerging, Re-emerging and Neglected Zoonoses
Dr Jean-Claude Manuguerra, WHO Collaborating Centre for Expertise and Research on Arboviruses and Viral
Haemorrhagic Fevers INSTITUT PASTEUR, Paris, France
Professor Santiago Mas-Coma, Department of Parasitology, University of Valencia,
Spain
Dr Nicole Pavio, ANSES Laboratory for Animal Health, Maisons-Alfort, France
Dr Elodie Rousset, OIE Reference Laboratory for Q-fever, ANSES, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Impacts of Climate Change and Globalisation
Professor Jan Semenza, ECDC
Dr Marieta Braks, National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Emerging challenges to one-health approaches for combating Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic organisms
Dr Ernesto Liebana Criado, Acting Head Biological Hazards and Contaminants Unit,
European Food safety Authority
Professor Jean-Yves Madec, Director of Research at ANSES Lyon, France
Professor Bruno Gonzalez Zorn, Foodborne Zoonoses and Antimicrobial resistance Unit, VISAVET Health
Surveillance Centre, UCM, Madrid Spain.