For a Healthy Future of Our Children - Childhood immunisation Conference
Budapest, 3-4 March 2011
Programme
Venue: Museum of Ethnography (Néprajzi Múzeum) - Kossuth Lajos Square (tér) 12., H - 1055 Budapest
3 March 2011, Thursday
From 12.00 Arrival of participants, sandwich buffet
13.00 - 13.20 Opening remarks
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Hanna Páva, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of National Resources, Hungary
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Commissioner John Dalli (video message)
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John F. Ryan, Head of Unit, Commission/DG SANCO
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Marc Sprenger, Director, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
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Zsuzsanna Jakab, Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe
13.20 - 15.00 Session I.
Chair: John F. Ryan European Commission / DG SANCO
Successes and challenges of European childhood immunisation
Childhood immunisation programs have been instrumental for controlling infectious diseases in Europe but many challenges remain, including reaching under-vaccinated groups, engaging with vaccine sceptics and achieving measles elimination.
Successes and challenges of European childhood immunisation
John F. Ryan, European Commission/DG SANCO
Vaccination programmes in Europe: a long story of successes
Pier Luigi Lopalco, ECDC
Measles in Europe
Steffen Glismann, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark
Towards a common EU immunisation schedule or from DTP to HPV
Daniel Lévy-Bruhl, Institute de veille sanitair, France
Challenges in documenting individual immunisations and differences between national vaccination schedules can result in some children not fully immunised.
Country experiences, Germany: Challenges in documenting individual immunisations & differences between national vaccination schedules can result in some children not fully immunised
Ole Wichmann, Robert- Koch-Institut, Germany
Challenges in documenting childhood immunization in Poland
Pawel Stefanoff, National Institute of Public Health, Poland
Exchange of views
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 17.30 Session II.
Chair: Rebecca Martin, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Cross-border issues in childhood immunisation
Vaccine preventable diseases do not respect national borders and social boundaries.
For A Healthy Future of our Children - Childhood Immunization
Nedret Emiroglu, WHO/Euro
Vaccine preventable diseases do not respect national borders and social boundaries
Antoon Gijsens, European Commission/DG SANCO
Generating and effectively communicating evidence-based information is essential for maintaining public trust in childhood immunisation programmes.
Generating and effectively communicating evidence-based information is essential for maintaining public trust in childhood immunization programmes
Robb Butler, WHO/Euro
Communication and public trust in childhood immunisation programmes
Niklas Danielsson, ECDC
Standardised multi-lingual personal EU immunisation cards could improve communication between vaccine service providers across Europe.
For a Healthy Future of Our Children Childhood immunisation - Cross-border aspects of childhood vaccination in Hungary
Ágnes Csohán, National Centre for Epidemiology, Hungary
Standardised multi-lingual personal EU immunisation cards could improve communication between vaccine service providers across Europe
Antoon Gijsens, European Commission/DG SANCO
Exchange of views
Guided tour in the Parliament
19.00 Dinner in the Museum of Ethnography
4 March 2011, Friday
09.00 - 10.30 Session III.
Chair: John OToole, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Monitoring of vaccination coverage
Assessing the risk of outbreaks in Europe requires reliable and timely monitoring of vaccination coverage.
WANTED - Accurate and timely data for action; REWARD - Prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases and outbreaks
Rebecca Martin, WHO/Euro
Monitoring of Vaccination Coverage in the EU
Pier Luigi Lopalco, ECDC
Monitoring of vaccine coverage and supporting information systems. Country experiences.
The Immunisation Information System in Sweden
Harald Heijbel, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden
European Conference on Immunisation Information Systems (ECIIS)
Harald Heijbel, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden
Monitoring Vaccination Coverage - the UK Experience
Gayatri Amirthalingam, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom
Monitoring of vaccine coverage and supporting information system - The Hungarian experiences
Beatrix Oroszi, Office of Chief Medical Officer, Hungary
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Session IV.
Chair: Ildikó Kissné Horváth, Ministry of National Resources, Hungary
Special efforts to improve immunisation in general and in under-vaccinated population groups
Some children for different reasons have significantly lower immunisation coverage than national averages across Europe (ethnic Roma and Travellers' children, antivaccination groups)
Migrant immunization in Europe - The PROVOMAX project
István Szilárd, Hungar, PROMOVAX Project
Roundtable discussion
Measles outbreak in Bulgaria, 2009-2010
Mira Kojouharova, Bulgaria
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Adriana Pistol, Romania
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Marina Conyn, the Netherlands
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Alenka Kraigher, Slovenia
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Darina OFlanagan, Ireland
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Rosa Cano-Portero, Spain
Exchange of views
12:30 - 14:30 Buffet lunch
14.30 - 15:30 Session V.
Co-chairs: Ildikó Kissné Horváth, Hungarian Presidency
John F. Ryan Commission/DG SANCO
Mark Sprenger, ECDC
Shared responsibility for action at national and EU levels
Future plans to ensure childhood immunisation to the migrant/unreached population in Europe
Reaching every child - How to ensure immunization services for all in the European Region
Dr Rebecca Martin, WHO/EURO
15.30 - 16.00 Session VI.
Summary of the meeting
Conclusions, recommendations and next steps
Closing remarks
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Ildikó Kissné Horváth, Hungarian Presidency
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John F. Ryan, Commission/DG SANCO
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Marc Sprenger, Director, ECDC
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Nedret Emiroglu, WHO/EURO
Conclusions from the Conference
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