DAY
DATE
September 3
Sunday
TIME
PROGRAM
INSTRUCTORS
8:00-8:30
Welcome & course material distribution
Luciano Kalabric, Joice Reis, Mitermayer Reis
8:30-9:00
Database management in research
Nivison Rocha
9:00-12:30
Group A
Introduction to R Studio
Wildo Araujo
9:00-12:30
Group B
Laboratory demonstration of molecular techniques
Ana Menezes, Jailton Azevedo, Luciano Kalabric
12:30-14:00
Intervalo para almoço / Lunch
 
14:00-17:30
Group B
Introduction to R Studio
Wildo Araujo
14:00-17:30
Group A
Laboratory demonstration of molecular techniques
Ana Menezes, Jailton Azevedo, Luciano Kalabric
DAY
DATE
September 4
Monday
TIME
PROGRAM
INSTRUCTORS
8:00-8:30
Opening Ceremony
Marilda Gonçalves, SVS representative, Luciano Kalabric, Joice Reis, Mitermayer Reis
8:30-9:30
Basic Epidemiological Concepts
Part 1: Study design Overview
Edson Duarte
9:30-10:00
Intervalo / Break
 
10:00-11:00
Basic Epidemiological Concepts
Part 2: Epidemiologic methods 1
Art Reingold
11:00-12:00
Basic Epidemiological Concepts
Part 3: Epidemiologic methods 2
Guilherme Ribeiro
12:00-13:00
Intervalo para almoço / Lunch
 
13:00-14:00
Basic Epidemiological Concepts
Part 4: The use of GIS in epidemiology
Renato Barbosa
14:00-15:30
Exercise module 1: “Food borne outbreak”
Group discussion
Staff
15:30-16:00
Intervalo / Break
 
16:00-17:00
Tribute to Lee Riley
Albert Ko, Eva Harris, Derek Cummings
DAY
DATE
September 5
Tuesday
TIME
PROGRAM
INSTRUCTORS
8:00-9:00
Principles of Molecular Epidemiology
Part 1: Introduction to Molecular Epidemiology; definitions; distinguishing molecular epidemiology from taxonomy/phylogeny
Albert Ko
9:00-9:30
Principles of Molecular Epidemiology
Part 2: Overview of conventional laboratory methods used in epidemiology
Luciano Kalabric
9:30-10:00
Intervalo / Break
 
10:00-11:00
Principles of Molecular Epidemiology
Part 3: Overview of molecular methods used in epidemiology
Luciano Kalabric
11:00-12:00
Principles of Molecular Epidemiology
Part 4: Analysis of similarity and relatedness
Part 5: Validity
Part 6: Quantifying attributable risks
Part 7: Stratification of data
To be defined by Albert Ko
12:00-13:00
Intervalo para almoço / Lunch
 
13:00-14:00
Practices of Molecular Epidemiology
Part 1: Phylogenetic analysis: what can you learn by reading a tree?
Antônio Ricardo Khouri
14:00-15:30
Exercise module 2: “Pathovars vs. non-pathovars”
Group discussion
Staff
15:30-16:00
Intervalo / Break
 
16:00-17:00
Epidemiology in action: Students’ oral presentations (Three students)
To be defined
DAY
DATE
September 6
Wednesday
TIME
PROGRAM
INSTRUCTORS
8:00-9:30
Principles of Outbreak Investigations
Art Reingold
9:30-10:00
Intervalo / Break
 
10:00-11:00
Practices of Outbreak Investigations
Part 1: Drug-resistant salmonellosis and Drug-resistant urinary tract infections
To be defined by Albert Ko
11:00-12:00
Practices of Outbreak Investigations
Part 2: Healthcare-associated infections –definition, global surveillance systems for HAI and resistance, use of strain typing to track global dissemination of pathogens
Joice Reis
12:00-13:00
Intervalo para almoço / Lunch
 
13:00-14:00
Practices of Outbreak Investigations
Part 3: To be defined
Ianick Martins
14:00-15:30
Exercise module 3: “Healthcare-associated infections”
Staff
15:30-16:00
Intervalo / Break
 
16:00-17:00
Epidemiology in action: Students’ oral presentations (Three students)
To be defined
DAY
DATE
September 7
Thursday
TIME
PROGRAM
INSTRUCTORS
8:00-8:45
Principles of Surveillance
Part 1: Introduction
Art Reingold
8:45-9:30
Principles of Surveillance
Part 2: Molecular methods to surveillance
Albert Ko
9:30-10:00
Intervalo / Break
 
10:00-11:00
Practices of Surveillance
Part 2: Molecular eco-epidemiology
Albert Ko/Federico Costa
11:00-12:00
Practices of Surveillance
Part 3: Tuberculosis
Julio Croda/Jason Andrews
12:00-13:00
Intervalo para almoço / Lunch
 
13:00-14:00
Practices of Surveillance
Part 4: Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Salvador, Brazil: geographic distribution and multidrug resistance
Theolis Bessa
14:00-15:30
Exercise module 4: “Tuberculosis”
Group discussion
Staff
15:30-16:00
Intervalo / Break
 
16:00-17:00
Epidemiology in action: Students’ oral presentations (Three students)
To be defined
DAY
DATE
September 8
Friday
TIME
PROGRAM
INSTRUCTORS
8:00-9:00
Principles of Parasitic Diseases
Part 1: Populations genetics of sexually reproducing organisms
Ronald Blanton
9:00-10:00
Scientific session: To be definded
Eric Dumonteil
10:00-10:30
Intervalo / Break
 
10:30-12:00
Practice of Parasitic Disease Molecular Epidemiology
Part 1: Implications of vector and parasite population structure
Ronald Blanton
DAY
DATE
September 8
Friday
TIME
PROGRAM
INSTRUCTORS
12:00-13:00
Intervalo para almoço / Lunch
 
13:00-14:00
Practices of Parasitic Diseases
Part 2: Chagas’ disease
Claudia Herrera
14:00-15:30
Exercise module 5: “Parasitic diseases”
Staff
15:30-16:00
Intervalo / Break
 
16:00-17:00
Closing ceremony
Staff