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Global health is the health of populations in a global context and transcends the perspectives and concerns of individual nations

Decision makers' perspectives Track    

Scientific Advances Track

 accolade Health  
Environment  
Nutrition  
Business in Science Track    
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Sunday March 27th 2011

14:00

 

15:30

Opening plenary session

"Health , a right for all human being, at any price?"

18:00

 

20:00

Plenary session

"Drugs and developing countries"

 

Monday March 28th 2011

9:00

 

 

From systems biology to personalized medicine

Talk 1 - Combining Eastern and Western approaches of biology into systems medicine

Talk 2 - Catalyzing the transition from reactive to proactive (P4) medicine through systems biology

Talk 3 - Bioinformatics and biobanking for systems biology and medicine


Round Table - "Defining a roadmap for systems of medicine"

WHO Meeting

Securing global health
in the 21st century:
epidemic intelligence, identification of risks and opportunities for control

9:30

 

 

 

11:00

 "How to address the growing challenge of chronic diseases in emerging countries?"
11:15  
11:45  

11:45

13:15

ERINHA workshop

14:30



15:45

 

 

 

 


17:15

More food and better food

Talk 1 - Outline the challenges facing the world in increasing crop yields and biomass

Talk 2 - New plants – lower inputs

Talk 3 - Nutritional quality of food and effects on health


Round Table -
"Which new agronomy for a sustainable and productive agriculture possible? "

 

 
"Boston,Mumbai, Nairobi..? What is the geographic new deal for boosting innovation in infectious diseases?"

17:30

18:00

Plenary session

"How will we be fed in 2020?"
19:00  

20:00

22:00

BioVision TWAS Lilly Award in conjunction with TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World

 

Tuesday March 29th 2011

9:00

 

 

 

 

11:45

"How to deal with emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases?"

Talk 1 - Flu, a striking example of emerging disease

Talk 2 - Predisposition, genetic resistance to some infectious diseases

Talk 3 - New method to develop antibiotics


Round Table - "Have we considered all parameters ?"

14:30

 

16:00

Closing plenary session

"Preparing for healthcare 3.0: thinking outside the (traditional) box"