Event details
Five Nations Health Protection Conference 2012
Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd May
The Europa Hotel in Belfast
The aim of the 5 Nations Health Protection Conference is to provide a focus for Continuing Professional Development for Consultants in Communicable Disease Control, Consultants and Specialists in Public Health Medicine and their colleagues in the epidemiology and control of infectious, non infectious diseases and environmental hazards.
The conference will address important public health issues that have arisen since the last meeting and provide fresh perspectives on established areas of disease prevention and control.
Short papers will also be presented by those actively working in Health Protection. Papers and posters will be presented in the following sessions.
- HCAI: Role of health protection
- Surveillance: Data, information or intelligence?
- Outbreaks: Exploiting natural experiments (This session will focus on how outbreak investigation can advance scientific knowledge)
- Travel infections: Excess baggage
- Sexual health: Unwanted souvenirs
- Hot topics
- Poster sessions - Both days
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