8:30 - 9:00

am - am

Activity

Arrival and Registration

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9:00 - 9:05

am - am

Activity

Opening Prayer & Remarks

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9:05 - 9:30

am - am

Activity

Plenary: Integrating WES and Clinical Surveillance

Speaker/Person Responsible
  • Kerrigan McCarthy (Chair)
  • Isobel Blake
  • Tim Julian

Panel:

  • Thierry Kalonji, INRB, DRC
  • Enoch Ojenya NCDC, Nigeria
  • Dennis Laryea, GHS, Ghana
Topics
  • Wastewater surveillance to monitor pulmonary tuberculosis burden Exploring TB case counts, socio-economics and TB nucleic acid signals in wastewater in South Africa, 2025.
  • Co-Chair
  • Aligning Wastewaterderived Digital PCR, Culture, and Sequencing Data with Clinical data in Switzerland
  • Integrating WES and Clinical Surveillance: Lessons from Environmental Surveillance for Polio in Ghana
10:30 - 11:00

am - am

Activity

Cocoa break

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Topics
11:00 - 12:30

am - pm

Activity

Abstract session: Innovative methods for multi pathogen WES

Speaker/Person Responsible
  • Josh Levy Edyth Parker
  • Kate Medlicott, WHO HQ
  • Sam Oyola
  • Victor Mabasa
  • Josh Levy
  • Chrystal Landgraff
  • Josh Quick (virtual)
Topics
  • Co-Chairs
  • Overview of the forthcoming WHO Preferred Pathway Characteristics (PPC) for WES
  • Transforming Public Health Early Warning System through Metagenomic Wastewater Environmental Surveillance
  • Investigating Wastewater pathogen Recovery: A Comparative Evaluation of Enrichment methods for multi-pathogen Surveillance
  • Advancing multipathogen wastewater genomic surveillance: realtime analytics, multimodal integration, and global applications
  • A targeted tiled amplicon sequencing protocol for Mpox virus detection and characterization from wastewater
12:30 - 13:30

pm - pm

Activity

Lunch

Speaker/Person Responsible
Topics
13:30 - 15:00

pm - pm

Activity
Moderated breakout groups to gather feedback on WES system design and TPP
Speaker/Person Responsible
Supriya Kumar Sofonias Tessema
Topics
2 breakout sessions
15:00 - 15:30

pm - pm

Activity

Cocoa Break

Speaker/Person Responsible
Topics
15:30 - 16:30

pm - pm

Activity

Symposium: Sustainable scaling of WES

Speaker/Person Responsible

Moderators:

  • Patricia Akweongo & Mukhlid Yousif

Speakers:

  • Sarang Deo
  • Tafara Ngwanu

Panels:

  • Angela Tessarolo (HERA)
  • Vinod Pericheria (IsDB)
  • Franklin AsieduBekoe (GHS)
  • Olajumoke Babatunde (NCDC)
Topics
16:30 - 17:30

pm - pm

Activity
Closing session
Speaker/Person Responsible

Future of Surveillance: Christian HappiClosing comments from Organizing Chair, Conference Chair, GF, WHO, HERA, GHS Awards

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