Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume 16, Number 11–November 2010
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm

Conference Summary
International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
Nina Marano, Theresa L. Smith, Rana A. Hajjeh, Marian McDonald, Carolyn B. Bridges, Sharon A. Martin, and Terence Chorba
Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

“The seventh International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID) was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11–14, 2010. The conference goal was to bring together public health professionals to encourage exchange of scientific and public health information on global emerging infectious disease issues. The conference was organized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Society for Microbiology, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the Association of Public Health Laboratories, and the World Health Organization; additional support was provided by 40 other multidisciplinary public health partners.

“The conference schedule was built around 20 plenary speakers, 31 panel sessions, 110 scientific oral presentations, and 445 posters from 6 continents. Topics included relevant infectious diseases issues from the past 2 years and updates on a variety of new findings and approaches, including social determinants of health, lessons learned from the recent pandemic (H1N1) 2009, zoonotic diseases, viral hepatitis, prevention challenges of respiratory diseases, travelers’ health, new developments in vaccines, and vaccine-preventable diseases. Rima Khabbaz, Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases at CDC, and Center directors Kevin Fenton, Thomas Hearn, and Anne Schuchat conducted tours of outstanding posters that addressed emergence, prevention, and control of infectious diseases in the international and domestic arenas…” The full agenda and list of speakers can be found at the conference website (www.iceid.org).