Agenda
The Dengue Academy Masterclass Series, funded by Takeda, consists of four expert-led intensive education courses on dengue science and dengue prevention & control concepts. To foster education and knowledge-sharing about scientific dengue updates, you are cordially invited to join the Dengue Academy Masterclass Series virtually.
5th FEBRUARY 2025
PUBLIC HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS FOR DENGUE
- Joao Bosco Siqueira Jr (Associate Professor at Institute of Tropical Pathology and Public Health, Federal University of Goias, Brazil): Dengue: a global public health concern (20 min)
- Jenny Low (Senior consultant with the Department of Infectious Diseases at Singapore General Hospital & Professor in the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore): Where is the burden of dengue? (20 min)
- Facilitated Q&A (20 min)
12th MARCH 2025 - conducted by Medscape
DENGUE VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY: WHAT DOES REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE TELL US? (This event is provided by Medscape and funded by Takeda. Takeda is not responsible for the content by third parties. Please note registration for this webinar is not included in this page. Click here to register to this specific webinar: www.medscape.org/spotlight/dengue-real-world-data)
20th MARCH 2025
LATEST RESEARCH ON DENGUE SCIENCE
- Francesca F. Norman (National Referral Unit for Tropical Diseases, Infectious Diseases Department, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Ramon y Cajal Hospital Madrid, Spain): Factors influencing severity of dengue (20 min)
- Eng Eong Ooi (Professor in the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore): Trends in immune response of dengue infections? (20 min)
- Facilitated Q&A (20 min)
27th MAY 2025
SCIENTIFIC UPDATES ON DENGUE VACCINES
- Heidi Larsen (Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at LSHTM, London, UK): Vaccine confidence index for dengue (15 min)
- Xavier Saez Llorens (Head of Infectious Diseases & Director of Clinical Research, Hospital del Nino, Panama): Dengue vaccines and their place in immunization practice in endemic settings (15 min)
- Markus Frühwein (Dr. Frühwein & Partner, Practice for general medicine, tropical medicine, travel medicine, Munich, Germany): Dengue vaccines and their place in immunization practice in non-endemic settings (15 min)
- Facilitated Q&A (20 min)