Pandemics and emerging infections

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Chairs: Gernot G.U. Rohde (Maastricht, Netherlands), Anita Simonds (London, United Kingdom)
Aims: This session will provide an update on global planning; the management of existing pandemics and the evolving lessons that have been learnt; and how to facilitate care and promote public health messages in future major infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics.
Target audience: Respiratory physicians, intensivists, microbiologists, allied health professionals, scientists, primary care and public health teams.

Global capacity and responses to pandemics Nahoko, Shindo (Geneva, Switzerland)
Ebola: progress with vaccines Sarah Gilbert (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Translational medicine lessons from H1N1 Pasi Penttinen (Stockholm, Sweden)
Behaviour change and communication in pandemics: key elements in breaking bad news Randall N. Hyer (Stevensville, United States of America)