The symposium will bring expertise from different disciplines for the challenge of cholera elimination in Haiti.
Background: Cholera is still running in Haiti with 790,480 cases and 8,628 death recorded by the Ministry of Health in the last report on August 20, 2016 (Ministere de la Sante publique et de la Population, 2016). The Haitian government with international partners developed a plan for cholera elimination for a period of ten years: 2013-2022.
Target factors in this plan includet: safe water for the population, sanitation around the country, develop more hygiene knowledge around the population, care of patients with cholera, vaccination (République d’Haïti Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population Direction Nationale de L'Eau Potable et de L'Assainissement, 2013).
Haiti is a country with limited resources and funding of the plan is problematic as only 18% of the budget has been given in 2015 (Koski-Karell et al., 2016), so it is very important to know which interventions is most cost effective for cholera elimination.
Plenary Speakers:
Isaac Fung, Jiann-Pinn Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University
Mentor Lucien, Ministry of Public Health and Population, Republic of Haiti
Invited Speakers:
Kenneth Teter , Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida
Dingbao Wang, Hydrology, University of Central Florida
Teng Zhang, Mathematics, University of Central Florida
Zhisheng Shuai, Mathematics, University of Central Florida
UCF Student Speakers:
Christopher Botelho, Henry Chang, Hanna Reed, Nathaniel Smith
Organizers:
Isaac Fung,Georgia Southern University
Zhisheng Shuai, University of Central Florida
Dingbao Wang, ,University of Central Florida
Schedule:
08:45-09:00 am Welcoming remarks
09:00-10:00 am Mentor Lucien “Cholera situation in Haiti”
10:00-10:30 am Q&A session
10:30-11:00 am Coffee break
11:00-12:00 am Isaac Fung “Sanitation interventions & mathematical modeling”
12:00-01:30 pm Lunch break
01:30-02:30 pm Mentor Lucien “Strategies to control cholera”
02:30-03:00 pm Dingbao Wang “Hydro-climatology and its impact”
03:00-03:30 pm Coffee Break
03:30-04:00 pm Kenneth Teter “Cholera Toxin”
04:00-04:30 pm Teng Zhang “Regression in data analysis”
04:30-04:50 pm Zhisheng Shuai “PIC Math course on Cholera in Haiti”
04:50-05:10 pm PIC Math student presentation 1 (Botelho, Chang, Reed)
05:10-05:30 pm PIC Math student presentation 2 (Smith)
05:30-06:00 pm Discussion Session
06:30 pm Dinner
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