Plenary sessions program

SUNDAY 10 JULY 2011
17:30 – 19:00   
OPENING CEREMONY

Reconfiguring the AIDS response Keynote Speaker : Dr. Paul De Lay [Bio] Deputy Executive Director UNAIDS

MONDAY 11 JULY 2011
8:30 – 10:00
PLENARY SESSION 1:
GLOBAL SYPHILIS PREVENTION AND CONTROL: CHALLENGES &OPPORTUNITIES
Co-chairs:
Dr Tom Wong, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Dr Rafael Mazin, Pan American Health Organization/Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Americas, Washington, USA

	The global epidemiology of syphilis and the challenges and opportunities to address maternal and congenital syphilisDr. Francis J. Ndowa [Bio] Coordinator, STI Team, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva
	Syphilis: Advances in the diagnosis, antimicrobial resistance and managementBarbara Romanowski MD, FRCPC, FACP [Bio] Clinical Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
	Preventing syphilis: new approaches in light of shifting key populationsGail Bolan, MD [Bio] Director of the Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, Georgia

13:30 – 14:15
PLENARY SESSION 2:
CONCENTRATED, MIXED AND GENERALIZED EPIDEMICS - TYPOLOGIES AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CORE GROUP INTERVENTIONS
Co-chairs:
Dr Marie-Claude Boily, Imperial College, London, UK
Dr Francis Plummer, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

David Wilson [Bio] Program Director, AIDS Team, Health Nutrition & Population, World Bank Washington, D.C.

16:15 – 17:00
SPECIAL PLENARY SESSION :
ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY FOR THE PREVENTION OF HIV: WHERE ARE WE NOW AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Co-chairs:
Dr Benoît Mâsse, Fred Hutchison Cancer Institute, Seattle, USA & Université de Montréal, Canada
Dr Michel Alary, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Myron S. Cohen, MD [Bio] J. Herbert Bate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Associate Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs-Global Health Director of the UNC Division of Infectious Disease and the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease

TUESDAY 12 JULY 2011
8:30 – 10:00
PLENARY SESSION 3:
THE PERFECT STORM : STD CONTROL AND THE EMERGENCE OF HIV (30 MIN)

Co-chairs:
Dr Michel Alary, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Dr David Lewis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Jacques Pépin, MD, FRCPC, MSc [Bio] Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

PLENARY SESSION 4:
EVOLUTION OF STI PATHOGENS IN CONTEXT OF CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: BIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR (1 HOUR)

Co-chairs:
Dr Jo-Anne Dillon, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Dr Sevgi Aral, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

	Evolution of the HIV-1C epidemic in southern Africa and lessons for controlling an uncontrollable virus Max Essex DVM, PhD [Bio] Lasker Professor, Health Sciences at Harvard University, Boston, MA Chair of the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative, Chair of the Botswana–Harvard AIDS Institute in Gaborone, Botswana
	A Trich-y parasite: genomics, population genetics and evolution of Trichomonas vaginalisJane Carlton PhD [Bio] Director of Genomics and Associate Professor of Parasitology, New York University School of Medicine

13:30 – 14:15
PLENARY SESSION 5:
TRICHOMONIASIS: WHY IS IT THE NEGLECTED STD?
Co-chairs:
Dr Jeanne Marrazzo, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Dr Annie-Claude Labbé, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Marcia Hobbs PhD [Bio] Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill   Member of the faculty of the Division of Infectious Diseases and director of the Clinical and Microbiology Laboratory Core of the NIAID-funded Southeastern Sexually Transmitted Infections Cooperative Research Center

WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2011
8:30 – 10:00
PLENARY SESSION 6:
SEX, SCIENCE AND SOCIAL POLITICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR STI AND HIV PREVENTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Chair:
Dr Kevin Fenton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

	The “black box” between research and interventionAlain Poirier MD, FRCP (C) [Bio] Assistant Professor, Department of social and preventive medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal National Director of Public Health and Assistant Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Québec, Canada
	HIV/STI Prevention: Using Epidemiology to Change BehaviorMary Ann Chiasson M.S., M.P.H., Dr. P.H. [Bio] Vice President for Research and Evaluation at Public Health Solutions (PHS) Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (in Medicine) at Columbia University, New York
	Prevention of STBBIs. Do we know where we're going? Do we know how we're getting there? Margaret Fast B.Sc. (Medicine), MD, DTCH, FRCP(C) [Bio] Departments of Medical Microbiology, Community Health Sciences, and Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

15:15 – 16:30   
SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS

	Rapporteur for track 1 (Epidemiology) Dr. Anne Buvé [Bio] Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
	Rapporteur for track 2 (Behavioural aspects of prevention) Dr. Jami S. Leichliter [Bio] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA, USA
	Rapporteur for tracks 3 and 4 (Clinical and basic sciences) Dr. Barbara Van Der Pol [Bio] Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN, USA
	Rapporteur for track 5 (Health services and policy) Dr. Ameeta Singh [Bio] University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada

17:30 – 19:00   
CLOSING CEREMONY

Responding to STI and HIV in the digital age Keynote Speaker : Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH [Bio] Chief of the HIV and TB Care and Treatment Branch, US CDC, South Africa Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of AIDS and Infectious Diseases University of California, San Francisco