PBC Focus Meeting: Pandemic Planning and Lessons Learned from COVID-19

9:00 AM

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Networking Session & Tour

Tour will be of The Water Campus Transport from the hotel and a boxed lunch will be provided.

12:00 PM

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Lunch Break

1:00 PM

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Research Mentoring Session

3:00 PM

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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

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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

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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

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Presentation 3: Clear communication for intervention success: Lessons learned from COVID-19

Rebecca Christofferson, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

4:15 PM

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Presentation 4: Toxicological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Antonio Pascale Prieto, University of Montevideo

4:40 PM

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Break

10 min break

4:50 PM

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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

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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

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Presentation 2: Adapting public health messages for an Indigenous audience

Diana Lewis, University of Guelph

5:40 PM

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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

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Evening Reception

Reception will be at the Capitol Park Museum with live entertainment provided