4049.0 Emerging, Re-emerging & Neglected Tropical Diseases

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 8:30 AM
Oral
The WHO defines emerging diseases as one that has appeared in a population for the first time, or that may have existed previously but is rapidly increasing in incidence. This session addresses both types with presentations concerned with learning lessons from SARS and H1N1/A and with sessions concurring TB, Malaria and Ebola.
Moderator:
Eckhard Kleinau

8:30 AM
Learning lessons from SARS and H1N1/A: Employing a WHO-WTO forum to ensure balance in economic and public health actions in emergency response
Timothy Mackey, MAS and Bryan Liang, MD, JD, PhD
     
8:48 AM
Quality Improvement in a Tuberculosis Clinic in Chimbote, Peru
Ana Maria Morales, MD, Armida Montanez, RN, Guillermo Frias, MD, MPH, Tony Suarez, RN and Leonarda Quispe, RN
     
  
9:06 AM
Diagnostic and treatment delay of pulmonary TB in selected rural and urban area of Bangladesh
Fatema Khatun, MD, MSc International Health, Rafiqul Islam, MBBS, MPH, Ahmed Shafiqur Rahman, MBBS, PhD, Ziaul Islam, MBBS, MSc, Abdul Hamid Salim, MBBS, MPH, K. Zaman, MBBS, PhD and Tahmeed Ahmed, PhD
9:24 AM
Using Knowledge Attitudes and Practices Survey Results to Prevent Malaria in Thai border areas
Anton Schneider, Robert Kelly, PhD, Dee Bennett and Tula Michaelides, MPH
9:42 AM
Impact of a Video-based Intervention on Knowledge and Attitudes of Ebola Prevention and Care in Rural Republic of Congo, 2007–2010
Amira Roess, PhD, MPH and Cynthia Moses, MA, Seamus Gallagher, Eric Kinzonzi
     

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Organized by: International Health

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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