Program
- Organizing committee
Frédérique Brenière (IRD, France), Fernando Abad-Franch (Fiocruz, Brazil), Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves (UnB, Brazil), Christian Barnabé (IRD, France)
- International steering group & editorial board
Frédérique Brenière, Christian Barnabé, Philippe Brémond, Fernando Abad-Franch
- Local organizing committee
Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves (UnB, Brazil)
- Official languages
English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- Sponsors
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD); UnB; Fiocruz
- Workshop objectives
- To provide a better understanding of the current epidemiological status of Chagas disease in the Amazon, discussing the impact of environmental changes and how to integrate public health and social features for a better management of the disease. This will be done through three Scientific Sessions:
- Chagas disease ecology in Amazonia: vectors, reservoirs, habitats, and transmission
- Anthropogenic environmental change and Chagas disease eco-epidemiology
- Human societies, perceptions and practices
- To discuss and develop improved research approaches and disease prevention strategies. This will be done through Working Groups:
- Research needs and strategies
- Disease prevention strategies: prospects and future trends
- To deliver a document summarizing the meetings' conclusions and recommendations
- To formally constitute a scientific network for infectious disease research in Amazonia
- To define potential work packages for further call proposals
Acknowledgements: The Organizing Committee would like to thank the sponsoring organizations for their contributions in support of this Workshop
LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS on October 21st, 2013
- Ana Jansen, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Analia Fagundes Gomes, SESAU, Palmas, Tocantins
- Anita Villacis, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
- Antonio Teixeira, Universidade Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
- Christian Barnabé , MIVEGEC, IRD, France
- Christine Aznar, Institut Pasteur, Cayenne, France
- Danielle Midja, ESPACE-DEV, IRD, France
- Elenild Goes, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, Brazil
- Fernando Abad Franch, FIOCRUZ, Manaus, Brazil
- Fernando Monteiro, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Frédérique Brenière, MIVEGEC, IRD, France
- Jean-Pierre Dujardin, MIVEGEC, IRD, France
- Marcelo Aguilar, Universidad Central, Quito, Ecuador
- Marcos Obara, Universidade Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
- Nicole Gottdenker, Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, USA
- Renato Vieira Alves, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Brazil
- Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves, Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil
- Soraya Santos, Ministério da Saude, Brasília, Brazil
- Susana Revollo, SELADIS, La Paz, Bolivia
- Walter Souza Santos, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belém, Brazil