Schedule

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Day 1 – Fri 4th July 2025

12:30-13:00 Welcome and Opening

13:00-13:45 CEPHR PhD SPOTLIGHTS

  • Dana Alalwan – ‘Host Transcriptional Signatures Associated with Distinct Inflammatory Bioprofiles in People with HIV’. CEPHR, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Joanne Byrne – ‘Antibody responses two years post mpox infection and vaccination’. CEPHR, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Ruth Anne Haverty – “Concordance of Hepatitis E subgenotypes in food and clinical samples: implications for imported foodborne zoonoses”. CEPHR, School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland

13:45-15:15 SESSION 1: IMPORTANCE OF COHORT STUDIES IN GENERATING DATA FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE

  • Susanne Dam Nielsen – ‘The COCOMO Cohort:  What have we learned about cardio-pulmonary comorbidity in persons with HIV’.  Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Asier Saez-Cirion – ‘HIV Control and Cure: natural mechanism and therapeutic interventions’. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

15:15-15:30 Coffee

15:30-17:00 SESSION 2: THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY IN PREVENTATIVE MEASURES

  • Patrick Katoto – ‘Community-Centred Approaches to Outbreak and Epidemic Management in Low-Resource Settings’.  Centre for Tropical Diseases and Global Health, Catholic University of Bukavu, DRC
  • Thomasena O’Byrne – ‘From Resistance to Resilience: Building Trust and Understanding Around Antimicrobial Resistance in Malawi’. Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

17:00 Summary and Meeting Close

Day 2 – Saturday 5th July 2025

09:00-09.30 Arrivals, Registration and Breakfast

09:30-10:45 SESSION 3: TRUSTWORTHINESS IN SCIENCE

  • Silvia Ivani – ‘Trust, Communication Dynamics, and Epistemic Rights’. IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD School of Philosophy, Ireland
  • Elaine Quinn – ‘Using creative approaches to build trust in science’. UCD Conway Institute Comms and Education, Ireland
  • David Robert Grimes – ‘Situation: Critical – The rise of Medical Disinformation’. Irish Science Writer, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

10:45-11:00 Coffee

11:00-11:50 Presentation

  • Ann Piercy – ‘Surviving in Silence – Behind the Mask’. HIV Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
  • Conrad Keating – ‘Improving Trustworthiness in Global Health and Global Health Leadership’. CEPHR Writer in residence, UCD School of Medicine, Ireland

11:50-12:20 Panel discussion

12:20-12:30 Summary and Meeting Close