Eurosurveillance seminar: Vaccines and tomorrow's opportunities for public health (from ESCAIDE 2025)

Topic outline

• Vaccines and tomorrow's opportunities for public health

  Vaccines and tomorrow's opportunities for public health

  This session was held as a part of ESCAIDE 2025, ECDC's annual conference on applied infectious disease epidemiology. 

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• Objectives

  Objectives

  After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Understand the role of vaccines in reducing antimicrobial resistance and use.
  • Identify new vaccine developments addressing vector-borne diseases, such as dengue and chikungunya, as well as strategies for their prevention and control.
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• Summary of the content

  Summary of the content

  Summary of the content

  This presentation is part of the Eurosurveillance seminar held at ESCAIDE 2025. The seminar entitled ‘Vaccines and tomorrow's opportunities for public health’ will focuses on how vaccines can build on their success and play a key role in addressing critical public health issues. Three experts in their fields will highlight the underrecognised role of vaccines in reducing antimicrobial resistance as well as focus on new vaccine developments addressing vector-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, which have become more widespread globally in the 21st century.

  Moderator (learn more about the moderator on the ESCAIDE website)

  • Susana Monge – Lead epidemiologist in respiratory virus, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain

  
  

  Speakers (learn more about the speakers on the ESCAIDE website)

  • Mateusz Hasso-Agopsowicz – Technical Officer, WHO, Switzerland
  • Gerald McInerney – Professor of Molecular Virology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • Fernanda Boulos – Chief Scientific Officer, Instituto Butantan, Brazil
• Additional resources

  Additional resources
  • URLCheck other ESCAIDE materials on Learning Portal
• Contacts

  Contacts

  For more information about ESCAIDE, please see www.escaide.eu, or contact the ESCAIDE team at escaide.conference@ecdc.europa.eu. 

  If you have questions regarding other training initiatives please contact: courses@ecdc.europa.eu.

  If you have technical issues please contact the ECDC Service Desk at servicedesk@ecdc.europa.eu.

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