Outbreak Control and Prevention Africa Conference coming in April

It will also cover the industrialisation of prisons and correctional centres to promote outbreak control, look at the impact and the role of Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and how to involve communities to halt the expansion of the Ebola virus epidemic in Africa and beyond.

Speakers

• Dr Andrew Medina-Marino Head, Epidemiology and Evaluation Unit & Senior Technical Advisor, Disease Surveillance and Lab Systems Foundation for Professional Development & Epidemiologist Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders & Extraordinary Lecturer School of Health Systems and Public Health, University Of Pretoria
  
• Dr Connie Osborne Director - South Africa, Africa Medical and Research Foundation Health Africa
  
• Dr Kaslutho Maria Mabena Deputy Commissioner- Health Care Services Department of Correctional Services
  
• Dr Lazarus Kuonza Senior Medical Epidemiologist South African Field Epidemiology Training - National Institute Of Communicable Diseases - a division of the National Health Laboratory Services, South Africa
  
• Dr Salim Parker President South African Society Of Travel Medicine
  
• Dr Sophia Kisting, Executive Director, National Health Laboratory Services-National Institute For Occupational Health
  
• Godwill Mlambo Assistant Malaria Control Manager TFM Project Democratic Republic Of Congo International SOS
  
• Joyce Nangula-Namuhuja Chief Control Nurse Namibia Infection Control Society
  
• Nicoletta Mabhena Senior Researcher-Epidemiologist Health and Development Africa
  
• Professor Bethabile Lovely Dolamo Professor: Health Services Management and Leadership Department of Health Studies - UNISA

There will be a practical case study workshop on 'Collaborative arrangement for the prevention & management of public health events in civil aviation and screening at airports'. Dr Nozipho Thuthukile Mashaba-Mogoru & Dr Fatima Alli, Aviation Medical Assessors at Aviation Medicine South African Civil Aviation Authority, will facilitate this.

For more information, email az.oc.crefsnartecnegilletni@sgnikoob or go to www.intelligencetransferc.co.za.