Ninth Advanced Vaccinology Course in India (INDVAC) 2021
20th - 29th September 2021
Venue : CHTC Hall, CMC Bagayam Campus
| DAY 1: September 20, 2021 (Monday) | ||
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| 07:45 | Registration | |
| 08.00 - 09.00 | Inauguration, Course Overview & Introduction | Dr. Anuradha Bose /Dr. Gagandeep Kang |
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Introduction and Overview of the Immune System | Dr. Bobby Cherayil |
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Basic Concepts in Vaccine Immunology | Dr. Adam Finn |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Tea Breaks | |
| 11.15 - 12.15 | Adaptive Immunity | Dr. Bobby Cherayil |
| 12.15 - 01.15 | Priming and Boosting | Dr. Adam Finn |
| 01.15 - 02.30 | Lunch Break | |
| 02.30 - 03.30 | Innate Immunity and Adjuvant Action | Dr. Bobby Cherayil |
| 03.30 - 04.00 | Tea Break | |
| 04.00 - 05.00 | Rota Vaccine Study Design | Dr. Adam Finn |
| DAY 2: September 21, 2021 (Tuesday) | ||
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| 08:30 - 09:30 | Adjuvants: History, Mechanisms and Challenges | Dr. Amit Khandhar |
| 09:30 - 10.30 | Methods used to analyze the immune response illustrated by…. | Dr. Bobby Cherayil |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Tea Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Indirect and Non-specific effects of vaccines - what’s the difference and do they matter? | Dr. Adam Finn |
| 12.00 - 01.00 | Discussion of a paper from the recent Vaccinology literature | Dr. Bobby Cherayil |
| 01.00 - 02.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 02.00 - 03.00 | Measurements in epidemiology - Incidence, prevalence, attack rate, rate ratios, odds ratios | Dr. Jayaprakash Muliyil |
| 03.00 - 03:15 | Tea Break | |
| 03.15 - 04.30 | Measurements in Epidemiology ; Epidemiology exercises | Dr. Winsley Rose |
| DAY 3: September 22, 2021 (Wednesday) | ||
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| 08:30 - 09:15 | Vaccine preventable diseases: force of Immunization and impact of community based Progrmes. | Dr. Winsley Rose |
| 09:15 - 10:30 | Measurements in Epidemiology- Workshop | Dr. Jayaprakash Muliyil |
| 10:30 - 11.00 | Tea Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Epidemiology and Vaccination | Dr. Nicholas Grassly |
| 12.00 - 01.00 | Epidemiology and Vaccination –Workshop Part I | Dr. Nicholas Grassly |
| 01.00 - 02.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 02.00 - 03:30 | Epidemiology and Vaccination –Workshop Part II | Dr. Nicholas Grassly |
| 03:30 - 04.00 | Tea Break | |
| 04.00 - 05.00 | Study design for measuring vaccine immunogenicity and effectiveness | Dr. Jayaprakash Muliyil |
| DAY 4: September 23, 2021 (Thursday) | ||
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| 08:30 - 09:30 | Influenza Vaccines | Dr. Kanta Subbarao |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Typhoid Vaccines | Dr. Andrew Pollard |
| 10:30 - 11.00 | Tea Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Role of JCVI | Dr. Andrew Pollard |
| 12.00 - 01.00 | TB Epidemiology and the need for a TB vaccine | Dr. Joseph Mathew |
| 01.00 - 02.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 02:00 - 02.50 | TB vaccines | Dr. Winsley Rose |
| 02.50 - 03.15 | Tea Break | |
| 03.15 - 04.15 | Hepatitis E vaccine: Available but yet far from routine use | Dr. Rakesh Aggarwal |
| Considerations for adult vaccination | ||
| DAY 5: September 24, 2021 (Friday) | ||
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| 08:30 - 09:30 | Pneumococcal Vaccines | Dr. Kim Mulholland |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Maternal Immunization | Dr. Janet Englund |
| 10:30 - 11.00 | Tea Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | RSV vaccines | Dr. Kim Mulholland |
| 12.00 - 01.00 | Pertussis vaccines | Dr. Janet Englund |
| 01.00 - 01:45 | Lunch Break | |
| 01:45 - 02:45 | Influenza Vaccines | Dr. Kanta Subbarao |
| 02:45 - 03.30 | Dengue Vaccines | Dr. Steve Whitehead |
| WHO position paper on dengue vaccines | ||
| 03.30 - 03.45 | Tea Break | |
| 03-45 - 05.00 | Phases of Vaccine Trials: Interactive Session | Dr. Kim Mulholland |
| DAY 6: September 25, 2021 (Saturday) | ||
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| 08.00 - 09.00 | Meningococcal Vaccine | Dr. Prasad Kulkarni |
| 09.00 - 09.45 | JE Vaccines | Dr. Vipin Vashishtha |
| 09.45 - 10:30 | Rabies Vaccines | Dr. Ashwath Narayan |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Tea Break | |
| 11.00 - 12:30 | Importance of Surveillance: Polio, Measles | Dr. K Surendran |
| 12.30 | Lunch Break | |
| DAY 7: September 27, 2021 (Monday) | ||
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| 08.30 - 10:00 | Ethics and Interactive Session | Dr. Anuradha Rose |
| 10.00 - 10.45 | Tea Break | |
| 10.45 - 11.45 | An introduction to vaccine safety | Dr. Jim Buttery |
| 12.00 - 01.00 | Assays for Vaccine responses | Dr. David Brown |
| 01.00 - 01:45 | Lunch Break | |
| 01:45 - 02:45 | Rotavirus: Disease Burden, Impact &p; Safety of Rotavirus Vaccines | Dr. Gagandeep Kang |
| 02:45 - 03:15 | Tea Break | |
| 03:15 - 04:30 | Interactive Session/Group Exercise | Dr. Gagandeep Kang |
| Develoent of a new vaccine in an emergency: Ebola/SARS | ||
| DAY 8: September 28, 2021 (Tuesday) | ||
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| 08:30 - 09:30 | Setting up a surveillance system | Dr. David Brown |
| 09.30 - 10.30 | Global Overview of Vaccines | Dr. Thomas Cherian |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Tea Break | |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Presentation of Group Exercises | Dr. Thomas Cherian and Dr. Thomas Kuruvilla |
| 11:45 - 12:45 | Quality and Use of Immunization Data | Dr. Thomas Cherian |
| 01.00 - 02.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 02.00 - 03.00 | How to prepare for and respond to vaccine safety problems: real or spurious? Interactive session | Dr. Jim Buttery |
| 03.00 - 03:15 | Tea Break | |
| 03.15 - 04:30 | HPV Vaccines | Dr. Abraham Peedicayil |
| Introduction of a new vaccine in the immunization schedule | ||
| DAY 9: September 29, 2021 (Wednesday) | ||
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| 08.00 - 08:45 | HIV Vaccines | Dr. OC Abraham |
| 08:45 - 09.50 | Hepatitis A and B vaccines | Dr. Priya Abraham |
| 9.50 - 10:15 | Tea Break | |
| 10:15 - 12.00 | Presentations by Participants of the work/ projects related to Vaccinology that they are doing | Dr. T. Jacob John |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | Valedictory Function | Dr. Vinod Abraham |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
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Could be optional:
Visit to an immunization clinic Visit to a vaccine trial site |
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