Manifestations

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 21^st, 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