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Joint Academic Seminar Organized by
Medical and Health Research Network & Department of Community
Medicine
Date: June 23, 2003 (Monday)
Time: 12:30 to 14:00
Venue: Seminar Room 5, LG 1, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine
Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Epidemics of new infectious diseases
are likely to become more common in the coming decades for a variety
of reasons. These include our increased ability to detect new viruses
and bacteria via molecular epidemiological studies based on genome
sequencing; our increased connectedness via international air travel;
the growth in human population worldwide; and the steady increase
in large urban centres ("mega cities") with high density
populations.
The seminar will focus on recent
events including the emergence of SARS, the AIDS pandemic, the increasing
spread of dengue virus, and the continuing evolution of influenza
A. Reference will be made to two recent epidemics in livestock in
the United Kingdom, namely, BSE (mad cow disease) and Foot and Mouth
Disease. Interdisciplinary approaches to both the study of these
epidemics and their control through different types of interventions
will also be discussed at the seminar.
Professor Roy Anderson FRS is Head
of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of
Medicine, Imperial College, University of London. He is currently
in the scientific advisory boards of Isaac Newton Institute for
Theoretical Sciences at the Cambridge University and of the Bernard
Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine at the University of London.
He also serves as Chairman of the UNAIDS reference group on the
epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. In addition, Professor Anderson holds
a wide variety of advisory and consultancy posts and contracts with
government departments in UK and overseas, pharmaceutical companies,
international aid agencies and insurance, as well as in actuarial
companies.
Recent publication by Professor Roy
Anderson:
- Donnelly, C.A., Ghani, A.C., Leung,
G.M., Hedley, A.J., Fraser, C., Riley, S., Abu-Raddad, L.J., Ho,
L.M., Thach, T.Q., Chau, P., Chan, K.P., Lam, T.H., Tse, L.Y.,
Tsang, T., Liu, S.H., Kong, J.H.B., Lau, E.M.C., Ferguson, N.M.,
Anderson, R.M. (2003) Epidemiological determinants of spread of
causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong.
Lancet 361, 1761-1766.
- Riley, S., Fraser, C., Donnelly,
C.A., Ghani, A.C., Abu-Raddad, L.J., Hedley, A.J., Leung, G.M.,
Ho, L.M., Lam, T.H., Thach, T.Q., Chau, P., Chan, K.P., Lo, S.V.,
Leung, P.Y., Tsang, T., Ho, W., Lee, K.H., Lau, E.M.C., Ferguson,
N.M., Anderson, R.M. (2003) Transmission dynamics of the etiological
agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of public health interventions.
Science (accessed online http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/1086478v1.pdf)
- Ferguson, N.M., Ghani, A.C., Donnelly,
C.A., Hagenaars, T.J., Anderson, R.M. (2002) Estimating the human
health risk from possible BSE infection of the British sheep flock.
Nature 415, 420-424.
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