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Esmita Charani

She is an honorary Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, a visiting Researcher at Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, and an Adjunct Professor at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kerala, India, where she is involved in helping implement and investigate national antibiotic stewardship programmes.

After completing her post-graduate training in Cambridge University Hospitals and ten years of experience as a clinical pharmacist in hospitals, Esmita began her research career. In her academic career the focus of her research has been behaviour change interventions in the field of antimicrobial stewardship, and the application of social science research methods to develop contextually relevant solutions. She is an investigator on an NIHR Invention for Innovation award investigating the development and use of a point-of-care personalised clinical decision support tool for antimicrobial prescribing, and is co-investigator on the ESRC award: “Optimising antibiotic use along surgical pathways: addressing antimicrobial resistance and improving clinical outcomes” (in England, Scotland, Rwanda, India & South Africa; 2017-2021).

Her work in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been recognised through an Academy of Medical Sciences UK-India AMR Visiting Professor award. She is an expert advisor to the Commonwealth Pharmacy Association and a Global Health Fellow with the Office of the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, England. She is involved in mentoring and supporting clinical pharmacists to implement antimicrobial stewardship interventions across different healthcare settings and economies. Her doctoral thesis investigated antimicrobial stewardship in India, Norway, France, Burkina Faso and England. She is also the Research Lead for Practice, Design and Engineering at the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance within the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London.

Esmita completed her Masters (MPharm Hons) in Pharmacy at University College London, her MSc in Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and read for her PhD at Imperial College London.

Yenew Kebede Tebeje

Dr Yenew Kebede Tebeje is a medical microbiologist and public health expert with 20 years of clinical, teaching, laboratory science, research, capacity building, and programme design and management experience. His achievements include building laboratory systems in low-income countries, human resource capacity development, and development of policy frameworks and guidelines that impact laboratory programmes in Africa. Dr Tebeje currently serves as Head of Division of Laboratory Systems at Africa CDC where he leads programmes to strengthen public health laboratory systems and networks in Africa. In this capacity, he coordinates the establishment and strengthening of regional integrated surveillance and laboratory networks, creation of frameworks for cross-border specimen transportation, geo-mapping of laboratory functions, implementation of biosafety and biosecurity standards, use of point of care technologies and connected diagnostics to strengthen surveillance at community level, and implementation of laboratory quality management systems. He also leads initiatives by Africa CDC and partners to advance the use of laboratory diagnostics for universal health coverage and implementation of health security in Africa. Before joining Africa CDC, Dr Tebeje worked for more than 12 years as Technical Officer and later as Branch Chief for Laboratory at the US CDC in Ethiopia, where he provided strategic leadership for one of the most successful laboratory systems development programmes of the US CDC. Dr Tebeje worked as assistant lecturer, lecturer and later as assistant professor at Gondar College of Medical Science, University of Gondar. He was recognized several times for his outstanding contributions, including the Mission Honor Award, Meritorious Honor Award and US CDC Center for Global Health Director’s Award. He has written lecture notes on microbiology, immunology and parasitology and authored and co-authored more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Tebeje holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Gondar College of Medical Sciences, a master’s degree in medical microbiology from Addis Ababa University, and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Gondar.

Natalia Pshenichnaya

Natalia Pshenichnaya graduated from medical university in 1991 and finished her internship in infectious diseases in 1993. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. In 2006, she received her D.Sci. in infectious diseases, and in 2011, she became a diploma Professor in infectious diseases. From 1996 to 2019, Natalia worked as an assistant professor, associate Professor Professor, and head of the Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology department at the Rostov State Medical University. From 2011 to 2012, she acted as the WHO project officer for "Climate Change and Health" in WHO CO in Russia. From 2019 to 2020, she worked at the National Medical Research Center of Phthisiopulmonology and Infectious Diseases as the Head of the International Department in Moscow, Russia.

Since June 2020, she has been working as Deputy Director of the clinic and analytic work at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of The Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) in Moscow, Russia. She is also a Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute and an infectious diseases consultant at the Infectious Diseases Hospital #2 in Moscow.

Since 2004, she has been a ProMED-mail RUS moderator for the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Since 2007, she has been involved in WHO activity as a short-term consultant (Influenza, Severe Acute Respiratory Infections, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, IHR, IPC, COVID-19). Since 2017, she has acted as Associate Editor of the Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials and since 2019 - a Russian Academy of Science expert. Natalia was a member of the WHO-China joint technical mission to China to support response operation for the COVID-19 outbreak February 2020, Russian military-medical humanitarian mission on COVID-19 in Bergamo (Lombardia province), Italy, 22 March-10 April 2020; WHO GOARN technical and assessment mission on COVID-19 and WHO IPC and clinical management mission on COVID-19 in Tajikistan (May-September 2020), Rospotrebnadzor technical and consultative missions on COVID-19 in Kyrgyzstan (July and August 2020), South Africa (December 2021), typhoid fever in Republic of Congo (August, 2023).

Natalia's areas of scientific interest are influenza and other acute respiratory infections, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, West Nile Fever, other zoonotic diseases, acute diarrhea, infectious diseases in travelers, viral hepatitis, etc.

Alison Holmes

Alison has a longstanding clinical and research career in global infectious diseases, with particular interests in antibiotic use, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), epidemiology, and public health within healthcare and has served on the Executive Committee of the ISID, chairing the Education and the Publications Committee and introducing the Emerging Leaders initiative. She is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College, a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences, and a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator. Professor Holmes leads a large multidisciplinary research group and network with solid international collaborations. She is the Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and AMR and the Centre of Antimicrobial Optimisation at Imperial College. She is an Associate Medical Director in the National Health Service, leading a multi-professional service, and a senior ID consultant.

In addition to her work in infectious diseases, she has served as a medical advisor to VSO, UK, and was involved in refugee health, health, and human rights. She was an expert member of the Governmental Advisory Committee on AMR and HCAI for nine years. Professor Holmes now chairs the Technical Advisory Group for the Fleming Fund. She sits on various WHO expert groups and committees and sits on or chairs numerous national and international scientific advisory boards, funding panels, and editorial boards.

Alison spent much of her life overseas. She attended Cambridge University as an undergraduate and then went to St George’s Medical School in London. She worked in communicable diseases and tropical medicine in Oxford, gained her DTM&H from London, and was awarded an ID fellowship to spend at Boston University, where her research was conducted in the Maxwell Finland Laboratories and where she gained an MPH in International Health from Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Holmes serves on the Finance Committee and the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

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Oral Abstract Presentations (O6): Outbreaks, Infectious Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology

Oral Abstract Presentations (09): Social Context Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Infections

Oral Abstract Presentations (07): Parasitology & Vector-Borne Infections

Oral Abstract Presentations (05): One Health

Oral Abstract Presentations (04): Microbes, Pathogenesis & Host Immunity

Oral Abstract Presentations (03): Innovations in Infectious Diseases, Prevention & Control

Oral Abstract Presentations (02): HAIs, Antimicrobials & Bacteremia

Working Group (WG1): Guide to Infection Control Working Group

Policy Discussion (PD2): Pandemic Centers

Scientific (S9): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Maternal Immunization: New Products and a Pathway to Introduction

Scientific (S8): Perspectives from ISID Emerging Leaders – AMR Under One Health

Scientific (S22): Antimicrobials and Vaccines – Equitable Global Access

Plenary (P1): The Polycrisis and Policy Failure: a Perfect Storm for AMR

Plenary (P2): Tuberculosis

Plenary (P3): Updates on AMR

Workshop (W4): The Pharmacist’s Role in the Infectious Diseases Team

Workshop (W3): Clinical Microbiology – the Future is Here

Workshop (W2): AMR Stewardship – What the ID Professional Needs to Know!

Workshop (W1): Epidemiologic Intelligence and Forecasting Approaches

Meet-the-Expert (M5): Urinary Tract Infections

Meet-the-Expert (M4): Surgical Infections and Antibiotic Use

Plenary (P4): Research from Africa for Africa: Global Health Solutions from African Researchers

Scientific (S21): Current Updates in Tuberculosis

Scientific (S20): Point of Care Testing

Scientific (S19): Hepatitis B and C – Global Opportunities

Scientific (S18): Biomedical Interventions on STI Prevention

Scientific (S17): Hospital-Acquired Infections – How Much Can We Prevent

Scientific (S16): Pediatric infectious diseases - Challenges and Opportunities

Scientific (S14): Best of HIV-ID Joint Meeting: From Kenya to South Africa

Scientific (S15): Clinical Management of Hard-to-Treat Infections

Scientific (S13): Respiratory Infections

Scientific (S12): Interacting with the Online World: Misinformation & Vaccine Confidence

Scientific (S11): Equity in AMR

Closing Remarks

Plenary (P6): Emerging and Re-emerging Issues in HIV

Policy Discussion (PD4): Advancing Clinical Trials

Scientific (S28): New Targets and Approaches to Vaccines

Scientific (S27): Dengue

Oral Abstract Presentations (09)

Scientific (S26): AMR Surveillance and Diagnostics

Policy Discussion (PD3): Sources of Funding in Global Health

Scientific (S25): AI and Infectious Diseases

Scientific (S24): Fungal Resistance, Diagnostics, and Therapy Updates

Oral Abstract Presentations (O8): Vaccines & Vaccine Development

Scientific (S23): Neglected Infectious Diseases

Plenary (P5): Pandemic Preparedness

Meet-the-Expert (M8): Career in Public Health/Global Health

Meet-the-Expert (M7): Neonatal Infections

Meet-the-Expert (M6): Meet ProMED

Scientific (S10): What’s New in Mycobacteriology?

Scientific (S7): Rabies: Key Areas

Scientific (S6): Global Genomic ID Surveillance and Response

Scientific (S5): Enteric Infections

Policy Discussion (PD1): Health Systems Resilience

Oral Abstracts Session (O1): AMR and Antimicrobial Stewardship

Scientific (S4): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wastewater Surveillance

Scientific (S3): HIV - Hot Topics

Scientific (S2): ID in Special Situations/Contexts

Meet-the-Expert (M3): Meet the Editors

Meet-the-Expert (M2): Infections in Immunocompromised

Meet-the-Expert (M1): Lab Biosafety and Biosecurity

Scientific (S1): One Health: Surveillance

Jake Hightower

Sasheela Ponnampalavanar

Esmita Charani

Mohammed Yahaya

Margaret Ip

Adrian Brink

Dr Oluchi Mbamalu

Debra Goff

Angeliki Messina

Asha Bowen

Yenew Kebede Tebeje

Auss Abbood