Networking Session & Tour
Tour will be of The Water Campus Transport from the hotel and a boxed lunch will be provided.
9:00 AM
12:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:00 PM
Research Mentoring Session
3:00 PM
Session 3: Pandemic planning: impact of pollution on disease risk in a pandemic
Chair: Stephania Cormier, Louisiana State University Trainee: Md Jiaur Rahman
3:01 PM
Presentation 1: Pandemic respiratory viruses*
*Mechanisms by which air pollution increases susceptibility to pandemic respiratory viruses Peter Sly, The University of Queensland
3:25 PM
Presentation 2: Impact of pollution on disease risk during a pandemic
Akeem Ali, Head of Office, WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health
3:50 PM
Presentation 3: Clear communication for intervention success: Lessons learned from COVID-19
Rebecca Christofferson, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
4:15 PM
Presentation 4: Toxicological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Antonio Pascale Prieto, University of Montevideo
4:40 PM
Break
10 min break
4:50 PM
Session 4: Pandemic planning: public health messages
Chair: Akeem Ali, WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region Trainee: TBA
4:51 PM
Presentation 1: Associations of COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU admissions*
*and mortality and their mediation by air pollution and other risk factors Jennifer Richmond-Bryant, North Carolina State University
5:15 PM
Presentation 2: Adapting public health messages for an Indigenous audience
Diana Lewis, University of Guelph
5:40 PM
Presentation 3: Modelling the Prevalence of Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infections: Lesson from the Large-scale Screening in China
Bin Wang Peking University
6:45 PM
Evening Reception
Reception will be at the Capitol Park Museum with live entertainment provided
