VEME2024 – Genomic Surveillance For Public Health

Responsible
Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Ana Isabel Bento and Richard Lessells

TIME

CONTENT

SPEAKERS

SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2023

17:00
to
17:50

Welcome to VEME

Luiz Alcantara

17:50
to
18:10

Keynote 1:

Jairo Mendez Rico

18:10
to
18:30

Keynote 2:

Tulio de Oliveira

18:30
to
20:00

Coffee break

Monday 5 AUGUST

7:00
to
8:00

Registration

8:00
to
8:30

Welcome and practical instructions

Luiz Alcantara, Marta Giovanetti and Vagner Fonseca​

8:30
to
9:15

What are phylogenetic trees and what can you learn from them

S Hong

9:15
to
10:00

How can surveillance inform Dengue vaccination strategies

A Bento

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
11:15

Wicked problems and transdisciplinarity

A-M Vandamme

11:15
to
12:00

Teambuilding: icebreaker

S Hong

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
14:30

Creating a safe space

J-P Sandler, A Bento, T Nguyen and R Lessells

14:30
to
15:00

Country case studies: introduction

R Lessells

15:00
to
15:30

Country case studies: team orientation

Team, R Lessells and A Bento

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break

16:00
to
16:30

Problem framing and Theory of Change

S Hong

16:30
to
17:00

Problem framing. Case practice: Individual Theory of Change

J-P Sandler, A Bento, T Nguyen and R Lessells

Tuesday 6 AUGUST

8:00
to
9:00

Problem framing. Case practice: Joint WHY

J-P Sandler, A Bento, T Nguyen and R Lessells

9:00
to
09:30

Team reflections

Team

09:30
to
10:00

Report on reflections and on problem framing

Team

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Systems thinking and systems mapping: Theory

S Hong

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
14:30

Country case studies: background reading

Team, R Lessells and A Bento

14:30
to
15:30

Systems mapping: Case practice

J-P Sandler, A Bento, T Nguyen and R Lessells

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break.

16:00
to
17:30

Systems mapping: Case practice (continued)

J-P Sandler, A Bento, T Nguyen and R Lessells

Wednesday 7 AUGUST

8:00
to
8:30

Team reflections

Team

8:30
to
9:00

Report on reflections and on systems mapping

Team

9:00
to
10:00

Leverage points for systems change: Theory

A-M Vandamme

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Country case studies: background reading

Team, R Lessells and A Bento

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
16:00

Leverage points for systems change: Case practice

J-P Sandler, A Bento, T Nguyen and R Lessells

16:00
to
17:00

Coffee break + Poster session

Hybrid Session: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82087200228?pwd=WjRWKavQ064wYfYQ0ZeaFk9U3I1kGY.1

17:00
to
17:30

Keynote 3: Rapid spatial Expansion Beyond the Amazon Basin: Oropouche Virus joins other main arboviruses in epidemic activity across the Americas

Marta Giovanetti

17:30
to
18:00

Keynote 4: 13 years of genomic surveillance in Haiti

Carla Mavian

18:00
to
18:30

Keynote 5: Mass Dengue Vaccination Campaign in Dourados: A Vaccine Breakthough Case Following Tetravalent Anti-dengue Vaccination

Julio Croda

Thursday 8 August

8:00
to
8:30

Team reflections

Team

8:30
to
9:00

Report on reflections and on leverage points

Team

9:00
to
10:00

Multilevel stakeholder engagement: Theory

A.-M. Vandamme

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
11:15

Country case studies: background reading

Team, R Lessells and A Bento

11:15
to
12:00

Country case studies: planning and/or engaging other VEME participants

Team, R Lessells and A Bento

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch.

13:30
to
15:30

Actor constellation exercise: Case practice

J-P Sandler, A Bento, T Nguyen and R Lessells

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break.

16:00
to
16:45

Country case studies: planning and/or engaging other VEME participants (continued)

Team, R Lessells and A Bento

16:45
to
17:30

Revisiting Joint Theory of Change: Joint HOW

Team

18:30
to
20:30

Course teachers dinner

Friday 9 August

8:00
to
8:30

Team reflections

Team

8:30
to
9:00

Report on reflections and on actor constellation

Team

9:00
to
9:30

Futures: Theory

M Van Leemput

9:30
to
10:00

3horizons exercise: Case practice

M Van Leemput

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break.

10:30
to
11:00

3horizons exercise: Case practice (continued)

M Van Leemput

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch.

13:30
to
15:30

Revisiting Joint Theory of Change: Making sense of desirable futures in the context of the case study, building scenarios

Team

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break.

16:00
to
17:30

Pitching the output

Team