Workshops & Tracks

Detailed parallel tracks and discussion topics for Workshop Sessions 1, 2, and 3.

Workshop Session 1 (Day 1)

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Track 1a

Co-infections

Facilitator: James Platts-Mills

Presentations

  • Diagnostics/attribution
  • Clinical consequences of co-infections & implications for vaccine trial endpoints
Questions for Workshop
  • What is a co-infection?, how common are they?
  • Are they clinically relevant, and do some matter more than others?
  • Do they need to be considered for vaccine trials?
Track 1b

Adenovirus

Facilitator: Firdausi Qadri

Presentations

  • Burden of adenovirus-associated diarrheal hospitalizations in Indian children under 5 in the post rotavirus vaccine era
  • Severity of adenovirus and potential role of sequential infections
  • Role of non-enteric adenoviruses
  • Adenovirus immunity and vaccine prospects
Questions for Workshop
  • How much does adenovirus contribute to diarrhea morbidity? Mortality?
  • How important are non-enteric adenoviruses?
  • What research is needed to better clarify the role/importance of adenovirus?
Track 1c

Special populations

Facilitator: Richard Omore

Presentations

  • Diarrhea burden in older adults in Cameroon: A case control study using low cost specimen preservation
  • Adult diarrhea – Peru
  • HIV
  • Can traveler-derived genomic data strengthen enteric surveillance in LMICs?
Questions for Workshop
  • How can we capture diarrhea burden and etiology in special populations?
  • What is the evidence it is variable?

Workshop Session 2 (Day 2)

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Track 2a

Vaccines

Facilitator: Miren Iturriza

Presentations

  • New vaccine timelines
  • Oral vaccine performance for rotavirus and other enteric diseases
  • Vaccines and indirect protection
  • Vaccine impact on Antimicrobial usage – lessons learned from Typhoid conjugate vaccines
Questions for Workshop
  • What diarrhea surveillance do we need in place to support vaccines (pathogen prioritization, product development, testing, policy, post-introduction evaluation)?
  • How long after a vaccine is introduced (e.g. rotavirus vaccine) should surveillance continue?
Track 2b

Nonclinical approaches to diarrhea surveillance

Facilitator: Supriya Kumar

Presentations

  • WES in India
  • Sewage surveillance for enteric diseases from Dhaka, Bangladesh study
  • Lessons from Malawi: Can Environmental Surveillance Guide Shigella Vaccine Planning?
  • Seroepidemiology for diarrheal pathogens
Questions for Workshop
  • What are the diarrheal pathogens for which WES and/or seroepidemiology has a strong use case?
  • What are the limitations?
  • For what purposes can the data be used?

Workshop Session 3 (Day 3)

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Track 3a

Diagnostics

Facilitators: Keerthi Boddupally & Chitra Pattabiraman

Discussion on building sustainable diagnostic surveillance infrastructure.

Track 3b

Design

Facilitators: Thomas Cherian & Kirsten Vannice

Discussion on the future design of global pediatric diarrhoea surveillance.

Track 3c

Finance and operation

Facilitators: Arindam Ray & Sarang Deo

Discussion on the financial models and operational strategies for sustainable systems.