[health-vn] Singapore: 27-30 July 2009: EU – South East Asia Expert Meeting on Vector Borne Diseases: Identifying opportunities for Collaboration

[Vern Weitzel]

Event dates: Monday, 27th July 2009 09:00 AM to Thursday, 30th July 2009 18:00 PM

Location: Singapore and Philippines Contact: Administrator Account

Scientific experts meeting focusing on scientific matchmaking and identifying 
opportunities for collaboration and to form consortia to bid into upcoming FP7 calls

We are pleased to announce the  EU – South East Asia Expert Meeting on Vector
Borne Diseases: Identifying opportunities for Collaboration
Science
Scientific experts meeting focusing on scientific matchmaking and identifying 
opportunities for collaboration and to form consortia to bid into upcoming FP7 calls
We are pleased to announce the EU – South East Asia Expert Meeting on Vector 
Borne Diseases will be held in
Singapore on 27 and 28 July 2009
The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together scientific experts to 
identify opportunities for
collaboration and form consortia to bid into the upcoming EU FP7 calls on vector 
borne diseases.
The workshop will take an integrated approach to research and will focus on a 
spectrum of vector borne diseases,
including Dengue, Malaria, Chikungunya and Encephalitis, as well as other 
relevant newly emerging infections. It
will develop a co-ordinated and joint approach between researchers specialising 
in different disciplines including
virology, transmission, epidemiology, diagnostic approaches and/or treatment and 
prevention strategies, including
public health-relevant questions, as well as infections’ natural cycles, 
including basic biology of vectors and
diseases reservoirs and how to control them. This will ultimately contribute to 
a comprehensive approach to
counter the threats from these infections.
Speakers from the EU and ASEAN+3 nations are invited to give their respective 
regional inputs and update
researchers on the latest activities within the two regions. The participants 
will then break out into focus groups to
discuss the opportunities for collaboration and form concrete proposals to bid 
into the upcoming FP7 calls.
Significant synergy is expected from uniting EU and ASEAN+3 researchers from 
different fields around the
common goal of generating new knowledge on these diseases, and delivering 
improved ways to monitor its
spread, diagnose, prevent, control and treat it.
The knowledge generated from collaborations between researchers in the EU and 
ASEAN+3SEA is expected to
help predict the emergence and spread of new vector borne diseases and assess 
the efficacy of different
interventions and develop new interventions to interrupt or limit the spread of 
these diseases with the goal of
protecting against these threats.
The expected outcomes of the workshop are:
⇒ Scientific matchmaking to form concrete proposals in response to upcoming FP7 
calls (within the health work
programme).
⇒ 2.3.3 - Potentially new and re-emerging epidemics
⇒ 2.3.4 – Neglected infectious diseases
⇒ Take stock of existing and planned research projects and identify any issues 
that could be the subject of
future collaborations.
⇒ Identify the specific needs of each region and initiate actions to address these.
The workshop is sponsored by SEA-EU-NET and the British High Commission in 
Singapore, and supported by the
Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Agency for Science and Technology (Singapore).
Organising Committee
British High Commission, Singapore: Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore:
Christopher Tan (Christopher.Tan at fco.gov.uk) Laurent Renia 
(renia_laurent at immunol.a-star.edu.sg)
Jessica Wright (Jessica.Wright at fco.gov.uk) Lisa F.P. Ng 
(lisa_ng at immunol.a-star.edu.sg)
For more information, please email to the any of the organising committee members
and stay tune to the 2nd announcement in June 2009! The website for the event 
will be
up soon.