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Global Health Security Conference

Dates : 9 - 12 June 2026

Location : Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia

Day 1 - Tuesday 9 June 2026
Day 2 - Wednesday 10 June 2026
Day 3 - Thursday 11 June 2026
Day 4 - Friday 12 June 2026

The conference program will be conducted in English only.

Day 1 – Tuesday 9 June 2026
7.15am – 8.30am	Registration Conference Halls 1-3
8.30am – 9.15am	Official Conference Welcome Conference Halls 1-3 Dr Saskia Popescu, Chief Executive Officer, Global Health Security Network Dr Andrew Nerlinger, Executive Director, Global Health Security Fund and Chair of the Board, Global Health Security Network Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, Regional Director, World Health Organization Western Pacific Dr. Revati Phalkey, Director of the United Nations University Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH)
9.15am – 10.15am	Advancing Health Security Through Multisectoral Collaboration Conference Halls 1-3 Dr Emmanuelle Soubeyran, Director General, World Organisation for Animal Health Dr Virgile Madua Kikaya, Technical Director, Global Health Security, Jhpiego Dr Laurent Muschel, Deputy Head of HERA, Health Emergency Preparedness and response Authority, European Commission Dr Kaoru Manabe, Councilor for Cabinet Infectious Disease Crisis Management Agency (CAICM), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan Dr Gina Samaan, Regional Emergency Director, World Health Organisation, Health Emergencies Programme and Director, Division of Health Security and Emergencies, WHO WPRO Moderator: Hon. Prof. Jane Halton, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
10.15am – 11.15am	Reimagining Global Health Security Governance and Coordinated Action Conference Halls 1-3 Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Acting Director of the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Management, World Health Organization Laura Rissanen, Political State Secretary to the Minister of Social Security, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Prof Zoe Wainer, Director General, Australian Centre for Disease Control Associate Prof Pek Wee Yang, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Communicable Diseases Agency of Singapore Moderator: Dr. Revati Phalkey, Director of the United Nations University Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH)
11.15am – 11.45am	Morning Tea Ballroom 1
	Room 302 & 303		Room 304 & 305		Room 401 & 402		Room 403 & 404		Room 405		Room 406 & 407		Room 408 & 409		Room 410
11.45am – 12.45pm	Planning for Public Health Emergencies and Preparedness		A Structural One Health Orientation Transforming Pandemic and Climate Risks		Biothreat Reduction and Health Security Strategy		Strengthening Lab Capacity and Biosafety		Global Health Security Through One Health		Leveraging Cross-Functional Synergies in Disease-Specific Programs for Collaborative Surveillance and Global Health Security		Financing Health Security in Uncertain Times		Regional Health Security in Asia-Pacific
	ASEAN Centre for Public Health Emergencies and Emerging Diseases (ACPHEED) Detection and Risk Assessment (DRA): Preparatory activities Rita Rana Puri		Conceptualising and localising ‘One Health’ in ASEAN Prof. Dr Hidayatulfathi Othman		Bridging Biosecurity and Public Health: HSPA Model for Biothreat Reduction Geoffrey Namara		Biorisk Upgrades At INRB And Regional Collaboration – D.R. Congo Valentin Disashi Nyongangandu		From Strategy to Action: Operationalizing One Health for Emergencies Preparedness and Response in Kaduna State, Nigeria Mr. Isiaq Shehu		Malaria as a Model through Country Case Studies Dr. Sarah Burnett		When Politics Shifts, Preparedness Suffers: Exploring West Africa’s Health Security Financing Amid Declining Donor Support Mr Sulaiman Ibrahim		Strengthening Regional Health Security through Partnership: The PNG–Vanuatu–Solomon Islands Collaboration Annie Vanessa Dori
	Risk Prioritisation of epidemic-prone diseases to strengthen preparedness: insights from Africa CDC – ECDC exercises Neema Kamara		The rise and fall of One Health Policy – a power analysis Remco van de Pas		Preparing for Our Biological Future Dr. Gigi Gronvall		INTERCEPTOR: A Global Network of High and Maximum Containment Research Infrastructures for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Diana Stepanyan		Strengthening Global Health Security through Prevention: The Bottom-Up One Health Approach of the PREZODE Initiative Dr Marisa Peyre		Country Surveillance Perspective Christa Ishimwe		Closing the Health Security Financing Gap Sara Hersey		Regional Health Security Architecture in ASEAN: Lessons from Regional Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDCs) Models for developing ASEAN Centre for Public Health Emergencies and Emerging Diseases (ACPHEED) Dr. Shinsuke Miyano
	Closing the Blind Spots: How Pakistan Built a National Early Warning System for Multi-Pathogen Threats Ms Huma Khattak		Accounting for the multiple in ‘One Health’ Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana		Integrating One Health into CBRN preparedness: Lessons from past events and pathways for future threat mitigation Dr. Alex Tasker		Emergence Of Field Biosafety Levels: Ensuring Safety for All Stakeholders Dr Rodel Jonathan Vitor		One Health in Country Assessment and Planning for Health Security Dr Ong-orn Prasarnphanich		Governance for Integrated Surveillance Dr. Emmanuel Okunga		A novel mechanism to reduce economic barriers to early reporting of emerging disease outbreaks for low and middle income countries Dr. David Bowen		Singapore Pandemic Preparedness and Response Framework Ms Megan Tang
Moderator	Jeff Freeman		Cushla Coffey		Dave Stiefel		Ask Eirik Storsve		Jacob Madden		Dr Arun Rathnakumari		Beth Cameron		Stephanie Petzing
12.45pm – 1.45pm	Lunch Poster Presentations Banquet Hall
	Room 302	Room 303	Room 304	Room 305	Room 306	Room 401	Room 402	Room 403	Room 404	Room 405	Room 406	Room 407	Room 408	Room 409	Room 410
1.45pm – 3.45pm	Safeguarding Innovation: An Introduction to Research Security Best Practices for Emerging Technologies	Cyber-Biosecurity for High-Risk Laboratories: Practical Tools to Strengthen Institutional Resilience	Governance, Power and Accountability: A Political Economy Approach to Global Health Security	Bringing Genomics Closer to Communities: Decentralized Approaches to Outbreak Intelligence	Meet Your Virtual Mentor: Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into the Field Epidemiologist’s Toolbox	From Awareness to Action: Strengthening One Health Surveillance through Serious Games and Community Engagement	Securing the Frontline: Gender-Responsive Protection, Safety, and Governance Reforms for Primary Health Care Workers to Enhance Global Health Security	AI-enabled Biotech Crisis & Capacity: Responding to AI-enabled Biological Threats and Building LMIC Governance Roadmap	Saving Lives in Complex Settings: Advancing IPC for Outbreak Preparedness and Response in Ukraine, DRC, and the Philippines	Cleaner Indoor Air for Pandemic Resilience: A Practical Toolkit for Policy Makers and Public Health Stakeholders	Co-Designing Interoperability: A Step-by-Step Framework for Integrated Civil-Military RRT/EMT Readiness	Bluetooth-powered Tabletop Exercise with Operation Outbreak	Lessons from Implementing Collaborative Surveillance	Hands-On Approach to the Use and Implementation of a Laboratory Safety Assessment (LSA) tool	Advancing Biosafety and Biosecurity in Africa: Reflections on the 2021–2025 Strategy and Pathways for the 2025–2030 Strategy
3.45pm – 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea Ballroom 1
	Room 302	Room 303	Room 304	Room 305	Room 306	Room 401	Room 402	Room 403	Room 404	Room 405	Room 406	Room 407	Room 408	Room 409	Room 410
4.00pm – 6.00pm	System Mapping for Surveillance Performance Assessment (SyMPA): A participatory approach to strengthening One Health outbreak detection and response in resource-constrained settings	Infodemiology as a tool for developing pandemic resilience and preparedness	Governance, Power and Accountability: A Political Economy Approach to Global Health Security	Bringing Genomics Closer to Communities: Decentralized Approaches to Outbreak Intelligence	Using Simulation to Strengthen the Frontline: Building Preparedness Capacity at Points of Entry and First Contact	Should Parents Be There? – Building a Caregiver Presence Framework for Pediatric High-Consequence Infectious Disease Care”	How to investigate a biological weapons attack under the UNSGM? – Understanding the mechanism and opportunities for engagement	From policy to practice: advancing DNA synthesis screening for security and innovation	Mitigating biological threats from DURC and emerging technologies: applying BRIET for effective DURC governance	EIOS/Pandemic simulator	Beyond gender blind programming: how to research masculinity and GBV during outbreaks	TBC	Legal Preparedness: Supporting Countries in Breaking Down Legal Barriers to Responding to Public Health Emergencies	Hands-On Approach to the Use and Implementation of a Laboratory Safety Assessment (LSA) tool	Strengthening Legal Preparedness and Governance Frameworks for Public Health Emergencies in ASEAN
6.00pm – 8.00pm	Welcome Reception Ballroom 1

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Day 2 – Wednesday 10 June 2026
7.00am – 8.00am	Breakfast Sponsored Sessions West African Health Organisation (WAHO): Lessons from Lassa Fever for Regional Health Security in Africa – (Room 410)
8.00am – 9.00am	Countering Deliberate Biothreats Conference Halls 1-3 Mr Trevor Smith, Senior Program Manager, Biological Security, Chemical Securityand CBRN Cross-Cutting Issues, Weapons Threat Reduction Program, Global Affairs Canada Dr Elizabeth Cameron, Senior Adviser to the Brown Pandemic Center, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health Dr. Benjamin Park, Director, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Disease Control Director General of Health Services, Malaysian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Dato’ (Dr) Zulkeffeli bin Mat Jusoh Zibusiso Masuku (Senior Biosafety and Biosecurity Technical Officer, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of Disarmament Affairs, United Nations – Virtual Message Moderator: Dr. Keith Hamilton, Senior Programme Manager Biological Threat Reduction, World Organsiation for Animal Health.
9.00am – 9.30am	Malaysia’s Leadership In Advancing Global Health Security Conference Halls 1-3 YBhg. Datuk Dr. Mahathar bin Abd Wahab, Director General of Health Malaysia / Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Ministry of Health Malaysia Professor Dr Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh, Dean, Faculty of Liberal Studies; Senior Consultant Public Health Medicine; UNU alumna
9.30am – 10.30am	Funding, Philanthropy, & Global Health Conference Rooms 1-3 Sara Hersey, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Planning, World Health Organization, Health Emergencies Programme Dr. Conor Seyle, Chief Operating Officer, PAX sapiens Hon. Prof. Jane Halton, Chair, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Board Dr Valerie Nkamgang Bemo, Deputy Director, Emergency Response Programs, Gates Foundation Dr Emanuele Capobianco, Director of Global Health Security, GAVI – Virtual Message Moderator: Dr David McCoy, Policy Research Lead, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
10.30am – 10.45am	Morning Tea Ballroom 1
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
10.45am – 11.45am	Early Warning in Fragile Settings: Building One Health Surveillance for Transboundary Disease Threats	Tracking Commitments, Building Capacity: Financing Pandemic Preparedness	Digital Surveillance for Early Action	Responding to AMR Through Detection and National Plans	Capacity Building in One Health Programs	The future of BioPREVAIL: A One Health Security Innovation Initiative for Sustainable Laboratories	Regulating Synthetic Biology in Asia: Lessons for Policy and Practice	Readiness defined: Approaches to special pathogens preparedness and response
	Pioneering One Health Epidemic Threat Intelligence in Complex Settings (POETICS) Alex Tasker	TBC Paige Snider	Enhancing Surveillance During the 2025 Ebola Outbreak in Uganda: Lessons from the Use of the Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response System (eIDSR) Johnbaptist Kibanga	Antimicrobial resistance detection and reporting gaps in refugee and carceral settings: a global scoping review of 12 countries Mr. Marvellous Asika	Innovative Co-Collaboration for One Health: The HASEDS Model in Australia Cushla Coffey	TBC Mr. Trevor Smith	Regulating Synthetic Nucleic Acids in Asia: Legal and Policy Trends from a Regional Study Ayelet Berman	Minding the Gaps: The Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit Activation Readiness Scale Jade Flinn
	Tools and techniques in One Health Early Warning Erin Sorrell	TBC TBC	Digital Community-Based Surveillance: How the Red Cross Red Crescent Nyss Platform Contributes to Early Action and Strengthens Health Surveillance Systems Ms Abbey Byrne	One Health Legal Preparedness for AMR Nishtha Arora	Potential Zoonotic Spillover Risks from Wet Markets in Bangladesh Dr. Sukanta Chowdhury	TBC Dr Claire Standley	From Global DNA Synthesis Trends to Asia’s Expanding Influence Mayra Ameneiros	Donning Trust, Doffing Risk: Leveraging Infection Prevention Practitioners as Trained Observers in Biocontainment Unit Carrie Billman
	TBC Cat McGillycuddy	TBC Jane Halton	Examining how mobile phone surveys enhance biosurveillance and capacity building in low-and-middle income countries Carly Malburg	Mobilising Civil Society to Accelerate the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Response Andrew Bowskill	Australia’s First National Avian Influenza Surveillance Plan: A One Health Approach Ms Caitlin Trenorden	TBC Keith Hamilton	An analysis of Thailand’s Regulation of Synthetic Nucleic Acid (SNA) Screening Vorathep Sachdev	Mapping the Frontlines: The Johns Hopkins Corry Score for Targeted Special Pathogens Preparedness Chris Sulmonte
Moderator	Dave Stiefel	Robert Salerno	Anthony Torres-Ruesta	Beth Cameron	Gemma Bowscher	Lisa McDonald	Gigi Gronvall	Saskia Popescu
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
11.45am – 12.45pm	Advance Warning and Response Exemplars (AWARE): Strengthening Data Sharing for Early Warning and Early Detection in Brazil, Kenya, South Africa, and Vietnam	From Sample to Signal: Genomic Surveillance and Laboratory Capacity Building for Global Health Security	Building safer cities: Aligning infrastructure development with health emergency capacity building to strengthen health security and emergency preparedness in cities	Global Health Security and the Climate Health Emergency	Infodemics and Outbreak Response	Operationalizing Regional Health Security	Global governance, capacity, and health systems implications of pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR)	Equity and the Pandemic Agreement
	Advance Warning and Response Exemplars (AWARE): Cross-Country Lessons on Data Sharing for Early Pathogen Detection Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo	Strengthening Health Security Through Innovation: Jhpiego’s National Genomic Surveillance Dashboard for Pakistan Dr. Aminah Khan	Urban preparedness through the lens of virology – experiences from Hong Kong Professor Leo Poon	TBC Kanza Ahmed	After Covid: Rebuilding Trust, Resilience, and Accountability in Global Health Security Mr Jason Gale	Operationalizing Cross-Border Preparedness: Standardized Points of Entry Capacity for Regional Health Security Dr Olanrewaju Olaiya	Global Governance of pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response: Structure, functions, and existing gaps Nobuyuki Kawachi	The Equity Turn in the Pandemic Agreement: Assessing the Erosion of Human Rights in Global Health Governance Dr. Luciano Bottini Filho
	Advance Warning and Response Exemplars (AWARE): Strengthening One Health Data Sharing in Kenya’s Surveillance Systems Philip Ngere	Enhancing Laboratory Capacity for Global Health Security: Insights from the EGHS Project (2020–2025) in Burkina Faso Dr Soumeya Ouangraoua	Building primary health care infrastructure and the interoperability of facilities for urban preparedness Dr Beza Tekleyohannes	TBC Osvaldo Inlamea	Building infodemic resilience Jessica Malaty Rivera	Regional Integration and Cross-Border Health Security Initiatives: Lessons from West Africa’s Fight Against Lassa Fever Dr Kingsley Ogunne	Status of pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR) across world regions Yasunori Ichimura	Operationalizing Technology Transfers under the WHO Pandemic Agreement: Implications for Global Health Security and Legal Preparedness in South and South-East Asia Kashish Aneja
	Advance Warning and Response Exemplars (AWARE): Enhancing Digital Forecasting and Climate-Health Data Integration in Vietnam’s Early Warning Systems Phong Hong Khai	Strengthening Global Enteric Disease Surveillance Through PulseNet International: Capacity Building, Genomic Quality Systems and Outbreak Response Supported by GHS Investments Mrs. Kristy Kubota	Public private collaboration for urban preparedness – the experience of COVID-19 in Indonesia Matteo Durante	TBC Dr Tahmina Shirin	Empowering communities against viral disease misinformation in West Africa: A collaborative interventional approach to risk communication in Lassa fever endemic area in Nigeria Dr Adetumi Adetunji Subulade	Tracking Nigeria’s One Health Progress Through Sequential Joint External Evaluations (2017-2023) Ms Nsikak Inam	Interconnections between pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR) and Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Kaori Ohara	Reframing Health Security – Equity and Regional Alignments of the Global South in the Pandemic Agreement Negotiations Dr. Priyadarshini Singh
Moderator	Arun Rathnakumari	Andrew Lee	Ludy Suryantoro	Revati Phalkey	Emma Ross	David Harper	Dr. Jicui Dong	Ayelet Berman
12.45pm – 2.15pm	Lunch Ballroom 1 Poster Presentations Banquet Hall
12.45pm – 2.15pm	Lunch Sponsored Sessions Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV): The Final Push: How Next-Generation Tools Could Change the Endgame for malaria elimination – (Room 405) Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI): Beyond Silos: Bridging Health and Security in an Era of Shifting Threats and Investments – (Room 410) Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL): 7-1-7 Awards Presentation – (Room 401-402)
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
2.15pm – 3.15pm	Laboratory Networks – More than the Sum of Their Parts	Conflict, Health, and System Resilience	One Health Biosurveillance- H5N1 to Wildlife Trade	Public-Private Parnterships	Event Detection – New Tools and Global Frameworks	Gender Equity as a Strategic Global Health Security Imperative: Insights from Women in Global Health on Leadership and Resilience	Access, Accountability, and Arms Control: Navigating Dual-Use Technology in Global Health Security	Building a Laboratory Network that Works: Lessons from India’s Experience
	Achieving the Vision of the Responsive Public Health Laboratory in Asia Pacific Jintana Sriwongsa	Conflict and health: the role of research and learning in health systems’ resilience Dr. Amirhossein Takian	Building national pathogen surveillance systems for viral emerging infectious diseases from Indonesian wildlife trade interfaces Herjuno Ari Nugroho	COVAX and the fluctuating autonomy of public-private partnerships in global pandemic governance Dr. Leah Shipton	PathoGENESys and the Panzootic: AI-Driven Discovery for H5N1 Defense and Global Health Security Angela Rasmussen	Strengthening Women’s Leadership in Global Health Security: Bridging Outbreak Preparedness, Vaccine Development, and Regional Capacity Building Dr Judith Wong	Global Health and Post-Quantum Cryptography: A timeline for the next 20 years Ms Rose Bernard	TBC Mayank Dwivedi
	Key Characteristics of Laboratory Networks and Their Role in Effective Outbreak Response Lucy Maryogo-Robinson	Antimicrobial Resistance in Conflict Settings: Evidence from Wartime Ukraine Dr Arkadii Vodyanik	Metagenomics, Wastewater, and One Health: A Non-Invasive Pan-Pathogen Detection System for Zoonotic Surveillance in LMICs Mr Matt Parker	From Advancement to Impact: How Private Sector Capabilities Strengthen Pandemic Preparedness Dr. Lauren Richardson	A Global framework to define and guide studies into the origins of emerging and re-emerging pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential Maria Van Kerkhove	Addressing Women’s Health and Dignity in Active Conflict: A Scalable Low-Cost GBV and SRH Model from Sudan Dr. Abrar Abdelrahim	Balancing Biosecurity and Global Equity: A Tiered Framework for Verified Access to AI-Enabled Biological Tools Dr Sharon Malonza	TBC Olga Henao
	Insights from PulseNet International: Strengthening Global Foodborne Disease Laboratory Networks Sherrie Staley	Localizing Global Health Humanitarian Response during Conflict: A Telementorship-Enabled SDG-aligned Model in Sudan Saida Abdalla	From Silos to Systems: A system mapping to strengthen infectious disease surveillance in Bangladesh (739) Dr Samiha Yunus	Innovating Public-Private Partnerships for Addressing AMR in LMICs Nishtha Arora	Influenza Virus Surveillance among Poultry and Poultry Workers in Live Bird Markets in Northern Vietnam Dr Duy Tung Dao	Reimagining Systems to Elevate Women in Global Health Leadership Meru Sheel	Overcoming barriers to ensure preparedness for international bioweapons investigations: strengthening UNSGM stakeholders at their interfaces Ines Mergler	TBC Gerald Pellegrini
Moderator	David Safronetz	Felicia Pradera	Erin Sorrell	Stephanie Petzing	Saskia Popescu	Sara Davies	Dave Stiefel	Saadia Zia
3.15pm – 3.45pm	Afternoon Tea Ballroom 1
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
3.45pm – 4.45pm	Strengthening Pathogen Early Warning Systems	Multisectoral Collaborations for GHS	Can AI for Epidemic and Pandemic Intelligence Work Everywhere?: Aligning Capacity and Collaboration for Equitable Adoption	Governing the Digital Transformation in Health Systems	Indoor Air and Healthy Environments	Measuring What Matters: Resilience, Gender, and Accountability in Global Health Security	Fit for the Future: Transforming Health Systems for Lasting Global Security	Emerging Challenges and Converging Risks: Biotech Innovation, AI, & DURC (Dual Use Research of Concern)
	Epidemiology of influenza A(H5N1) virus detections in humans in Cambodia, February 2023 – November 2025 CDR William “Bill” Davis	Building Capacity and Capability for Mitigating the Risk of Pandemic Threats at the Animal Source Through Fostering Multi-Sectoral Collaboration Dr Filip Claes	Designing a Trusted European AI Ecosystem for Epidemic Intelligence and Pandemic Preparedness Dr Jussi Sane	TBC Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran	Pandemic-Proofing Indoor Spaces with Clean Indoor Air Dr. Georgia Lagoudas	Evaluating the UK’s IHR Strengthening Project: A Multi-Country, Critical Global Health Security Assessment Beth Kreling	Securing Health Where We Operate: Private Sector Partnerships that Build Preparedness Riyaad Karriem	Functional Screening for Synthetic Nucleic Acids in the Age of AI Kirsten Weand
	Community engagement in early diseases detection at deoccupied areas during the war in Ukraine Dr Halyna Darahan	Developing Multi-sector Guidance for Response to Chemical Events in Cambodia Kathryn Johnson	Readiness for AI driven epidemic and pandemic intelligence (AI4EPI) in Peru: capabilities, gaps, and pathways to implementation Anthony Torres-Ruesta	TBC Professor Victor Hoe	Assessing indoor air quality interventions using an individual-based infectious disease transmission model Geetha Jeyapragasan	Gender Mainstreaming in Health Emergency Preparedness Adeline Tinessia	Resilient by Design: How UPS Healthcare Enables Future‑Ready Health Systems Marianne Mendoza	Establishing biosecurity oversight for cutting-edge vaccine R&D: a funder’s perspective Claire Standley
	Cross-Sectoral Gap Analysis of One Health Laboratory Systems in Somalia and Implications for National Health Security Abdinasir Osman	The Global Laboratory Leadership Programme – Building Sustainable One Health Laboratory Leadership in Support of Laboratory System Building and Health Security Jocelyn Isadore	Platforms for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Infectious Disease Surveillance Dr Marya Getchell	TBC Kathryn Johnson	Pathogen Detection For Built Environments: Predicting, Detecting, And Preventing Airborne Bio-threats Through Passive Environmental Biosurveillance Kenneth Yeh	Comprehensive preparedness approach to resilience Outi Kuivasniemi	TBC Dr. Amirhossein Takian	How DURC and GoF are considered against emerging AI trends-a UK perspective Dr. Sana Zakaria
Moderator	Henry Willis	Ben Wakefield	Isaac Bogoch	Claudia Abreu Lopes	Gigi Gronvall	Meru Sheel	Gemma Bowsher	Dave Stiefel
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
4.45pm – 5.45pm	From Floods to Outbreaks: Managing Multi-Hazard Risks	Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing	Analysis and Mapping of Policies for Emerging Infectious Diseases: From Theory to Practice	Regional Ownership and Digital Transformation: Building Self-Sustaining Public Health Surveillance Systems	Building Resilient Health Innovation Ecosystems: Technology, Equity, and Preparedness	‘Push’ and ‘Pull’ Incentives to strengthen global health security against antimicrobial resistance	Workforce Development – Mentoring and Capacity Development	UNSGM Investigations for Alleged Use of Biological Weapons
	When a Flood Becomes a Biosecurity Event: Multi-Pathogen Signals Missed in LMIC Surveillance Dr Muhammad Asif Khan	Implementing the WHO PABS Annex: Legal and Policy Preparedness for Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing in South and South-East Asia Kashish Aneja	Policy Epidemiology for AMP EID Rebecca Katz	Strengthening Regional Biosurveillance in Southeast Asia Through a Hub-and-Spoke Laboratory Network and Train-the-Trainer Model Peera Hemarajata	Australia’s new virtual incubator for vaccine and infectious disease innovation Leanne Hobbs	AMR & Health Security: Innovation and Investment Challenges Henry Skinner	Mentorship matters: A partnership-based model for strengthening sustainable antimicrobial resistance capacity in the Asia-Pacific Tilda Thomson	Preparing the UNSGM for Investigations of Biological Weapons Use Courtney Cresap
	Building community resilience to climate change through water, hygiene and sanitation in rural communities in southern Mozambique Dr Osvaldo Inlamea	Balancing Privacy and Public Health in Wastewater Surveillance: Toward a Layered Ethical Justification Framework Yimei Sun	AMP EID in Practice: The Power of Quarantine and Isolation Policy Rory Wilson	Strengthening National Biosurveillance Capacity in Ghana Through a Multi-Phase Genomics Training Model Noah Hull	Equitable Pharmaceutical Technology Transfer in Global Health Emergencies: An Entitlement Framework Ronald Eberhard Tundang	Product Innovation Requires Policy Innovation: The Role of Health Ministries as Market Shapers for Critical New Antibiotics—A Global Progress Update Suzanne Edwards	TBC Vivianne Ihekweazu	Coordinating Regional Preparedness and Response to Outbreaks Mr Zibusiso Masuku
	The Finnish Comprehensive Security Review 2026 – From Challenges to Solutions Dr Anna Katz	Advancing Equitable and Secure Data Sharing through Pakistan’s Traveller Surveillance Management System at Points of Entry Dr Nadia Noreen	Analysis and Incorporation of Policy into Transmission Models Ciara M. Weets	Evaluating Media Monitoring Against Dengue Incidence in the ASEAN Region, 2024–2025: A Time-Series and Representation Discrepancy Analysis Nindy Safitri	Combining Machine Learning and Kernel density estimation to Strengthen Rift-Valley Fever Early Warning Systems in Uganda Dr Emmanuel Hasahya	Australia’s progress toward the implementation of a ‘Pull’ Incentive to secure improved access to antimicrobials Andrew Bowskill	Establishing a High-Performance Bioinformatics Training Center in Zambia—Africa CDC’s Regional Coordinating Center—to Strengthen Genomic Surveillance Across Africa Ms Reshma Kakkar	Strengthening Capacity of Veterinary Services to Investigate Suspicious Biological Events Madison Wimmers
Moderator	Alex Tasker	Jacob Madden	Stella Chungong	Erin Sorrell	Claire Standley	Dr Richard Alm	Dr. Jicui Dong	Trevor Smith

Downloadable Program

The conference program will be conducted in English only.

Day 3 – Thursday 11 June 2026
7.00am – 8.00am	Breakfast Sponsored Sessions Takeda & IFRC-Asia Pacific1: Dengue & Global Health Security: Are We Prepared for the Next Arbovirus Pandemic? – (Room 410) PAX sapiens: Advancing Pandemic Prevention: From Risk to Action – (Room 405)
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
8.15am – 9.15am	Advancing Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance: Global Insights for Infectious Disease Preparedness	Enhancing Biosafety Capacity	Data Governance, Capacity, and Action: Building Trustworthy Health Intelligence Systems	Accelerating Africa’s Preparedness: The Africa Health Security Accelerator Model	Field Response Through the 7-1-7 Framework	Countering CBW Threats	Bridging Gaps in Health Security: AMR Strategies, Civil Society Mobilisation, and Regional Governance Models	Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) and Global Health Equity in the Pandemic Agreement
	GLOWACON – Advancing Global Wastewater Surveillance for Early Detection of Health Threats Laurent Muschel	Strengthening Global Biosafety Capacity through Modular ISO 35001 Implementation and a Community of Practice across CEPI Partner Laboratories Heidi Auerswald	Evaluation of Regulatory Frameworks for Patient Data Protection in Sub-Sahara Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Compliance, Enforcement and Policy Gaps Engr. Olumhense Adoghe	Building a Continental Engine for Innovation and Intelligence: The Africa Health Security Accelerator Framework Aleisha Rozario	Accelerating Outbreak Readiness Through 7-1-7: Bangladesh’s First Field Evaluation During an Acute Watery Diarrhoea Outbreak in Natore, 2025 Dr. Kyaw Thowai Prue Prince	Addressing Biothreats: Reinforcing the Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention Sylvain Fanielle	A Global Analysis of National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance (NAP-AMR): Identifying Critical Gaps in Preparedness Prof Jean Tsai	The Evolving Scope and Burden of ABS in International Law Dr. Michelle Rourke
	TBC Karin Haar	Laboratory Safety Assessment Tool (LSAT): Beyond Laboratory Biosafety Levels Dr. Maria Landron	Assessment of capacity, maturity, barriers and facilitators of evidence generation and data analytics pipelines for health emergency response Alice Wynne	TBC Hugor Shema	Does timeliness analysis using 7-1-7 work in One Health? Mrs. Grace Goryoka	Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity through Safe Relocation and Destruction of Ebola Virus Outbreak Samples in Sierra Leone: A Milestone for Health Security in West Africa Dr Jude Williams	Mobilising Civil Society to Accelerate the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Response Andrew Bowskill	From Kelsen to Schmitt: Viral Sovereignty and the Politics of Access Dr. Abbie-Rose Hampton
	Opportunities for Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance in Asia Dr. Judith Wong	Bridging sectors, building resilience: the BAM training model for cross sector biorisk preparedness Giorgia Solda	From Data to Action: Strengthening Epidemic Intelligence Through Uganda’s National Health Data Warehouse Dr Peter Muwereza	Catalyzing Public-Private Innovation for Epidemic Preparedness: The Villgro Africa Model Wilfred Njagi	Accelerating Outbreak Response: Applying the 7-1-7 Framework to Manage Measles and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Kasese District, Western Uganda Mr Evaristo Ayebazibwe	Strengthening Readiness for Deliberate Biothreats in Asia: Report from a Multi-sectoral Workshop Associate Professor (Dr) Poh Lian Lim	PPHSN as a Model for Regional Health Security Governance: Insights from the Pacific Onofre Edwin Jr. Merilles	Equity? Justice? Sovereignty? Exploring the framings of ABS in the context of the Pandemic Agreement Dr Mark Eccleston-Turner
Moderator	Henry Wills	Saadia Zia	Jacob Madden	Prof. Amirhossein Takian	Leah Goodman	Kirsten Kulcsar Weand	Cat McGillycuddy	TBC
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
9.15am – 10.15am	Detecting and Responding: Field Genomics, Laboratory Capacity, and Incident Command in Outbreak Settings	From Labubu Mania to Outbreak Readiness: Keeping Vaccines, Therapeutics, and Diagnostics Lines Running Between Crises	Biothreat Landscape – Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Converging Risks	Sovereign, Regional, Global: Building Scalable Surveillance and Biosecurity Intelligence Systems	Changing Landscape of Risk in Health Security – A Comprehensive Approach to Climate, Health, and Security	Indo-Pacific Military-Civilian Health Security Collaboration	Leveraging pooled procurement mechanisms to promote the equitable access to medical countermeasures during health emergencies: Perspectives from global, regional and national levels	How to counter disinformation related to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats
	Strengthening Sierra Leone’s Monkeypox Response Through an Incident Command Structure Sandi Genda	TBC Marc Ho	Scaling Preparedness: Biosecurity and the New Demands on Medical Countermeasure Systems Ask Eirik Storsve	Sovereign Biosecurity: A Scalable Early Warning System for Rapid Detection of Biological Threats Jean Richards	Finland perspective: The Comprehensive Security Strategy Approaches of Finland and the European Union Outi Kuivasniemi	TBC Fatima Claire S. Navarro	Scaling Equity in Emergencies: Lessons on Pooled Procurement from the i‑MCM‑Net Tim Nguyen	TBC Mr Trevor Smith
	Field-Deployable Genomic Detection of High-Risk Zoonotic Viruses at Human-Animal Interfaces in a Tropical Climate Dr Anna S. Fomsgaard	TBC Jennifer Nuzzo	Bridging the Digital-Physical Divide: How Evaluations Can Inform AI-Enabled Biological Risk Dr. Barbara Del Castello	Strengthening Regional Biological Threat Intelligence Systems for Health Security in the ASEAN Region Abdurrahman Faisal	Indonesia perspective: Indonesia’s Model for Health Security from an All-Hazards Perspective Mr Adit Harditya	TBC Dr Zulkeffeli bin Mat Jusoh	Strengthening Regional Resilience: The EU’s Approach to Pooled Procurement and MCM Equity Laurent Muschel	TBC Aishwarya Nagar
	Strengthening Mpox Laboratory Response: Impact of National Surge Teams on Sample Referral, Positivity Rates and Turnaround Time in Uganda, September– October 2024 Ms. Winnie Agwang	TBC Larry Kerr	Building Biothreat Radar: Biosecurity Infrastructure for the Prepared World Matt McKnight	Scaling Integrated Intelligence for Global Health Security: Lessons from FIFA World Cup 2026 Preparedness- Dr Hind Sbihi	Africa CDC perspective: The African Regional Approach to Health Security Dr Tolbert Nyenswah	TBC Brigadier Charmaine Tate	From National Needs to Collective Action: A Member State Perspective on the EU Joint Procurement Mechanism Isabel Lopes de Carvalho	TBC Filippa Lentzos
Moderator	Dr. Khalide Azam	Beth Cameron	Ben Wakefield	Paul-Enguerrand Fady	Sara Hersey	Col. Elizabeth Erickson	Ramona Ludolph	Emma Ross
10.15am – 10.45am	Morning Tea Ballroom 1
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
10.45am – 11.45am	Securing the Innovation Pipeline: Market Reform, Geopolitical Realignment, and Public–Private Models for Equitable Health Access	Next-Generation Biosurveillance: Advanced Technological Approaches for Early Warning and Decision-Making	Linkages Between Pandemic Preparedness and Laboratory Capacity	Forecasting and Resource Optimization for Health	Collaborative Strengthening of Surveillance, Laboratory Systems, Emergency Operations, and Vaccination Efforts for Monkeypox Response in Ghana, 2025	Preparedness at Points of Entry: From Borders to Facilities	Securing Our Future: Advancing policies, practices, and investments at the nexus of biosecurity and health security	Implementing IHR and National Preparedness Plans
	Market failure and public health priorities Malini Sivapragasam	The UK’s Biothreats Radar: an aggregated approach to real-time biological surveillance Mr. Laurie Thraves	Building Laboratory Preparedness in Southeast Asia: Lessons from Laos Dr. Rattanaxay Phetsouvanh	Real-Time Forecasting of Severe Acute Respiratory Infections to Aid Hospital Resource Management during the 2024 Influenza Season in Paraguay Melissa Rolfes	Strengthening National Health Security in Ghana via GHSA Partnership Dr. Hyun Beom Song	Strengthening International Health Regulations (IHR) Core Capacities and Cross-Border Coordination at Points of Entry: Insights from the ASEAN Consultative Meeting 2025 Ms. Aning Isfandyari	Driving Responsible Innovation: How the Bio Funders Compact and Forum Strengthen Global Health Security David Stiefel	Strengthening National Health Security: Lessons and Experiences from Implementation of Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa 2 (TDDAP 2) Programme in five African Countries Ms. Mackline Ninsiima
	Public funding and access conditions André Siqueira	Transforming Singapore’s Technological Infrastructure for Public Health Surveillance and Response Operations Dr. Pek Wee Yang	Laboratory Strengthening, Biosafety, and Operational Resilience Dr. Ann Cornish	Operation Outbreak: Outbreaks You Can Simulate, Insights You Can Leverage Kian Sani	Collaborative Strengthening of Surveillance, Laboratory Systems, Emergency Operations, and Vaccination Efforts for Monkeypox Response in Ghana, 2025 Danielle Barradas	System-Wide High-Level PPE Training Across Hospital Points of Entry: A High-consequence Infectious Diseases Readiness and PPE Standardization Model Andrew Chapman	Enhancing global biosafety and biosecurity capabilities in support of the 100 Days Mission Claire Standley	Building a National IHR Authority and Strengthening IHR Implementation: Lessons from the UK Experience Dr Claire Edwards
	Connecting PPPs and government implementation Health Deputy Director General, Datuk Dr Nur Fariza Ngah	BioRadar: A Community-Level Approach to Emerging Biological Threat Detection Dr Nikki Romanik	One Health and Veterinary Laboratory Integration in Pandemic Preparedness Keith Hamilton	The Application of Spatial Tools to Analyse and Predict HOTSPOTS and COLDSPOTS of Vaccination Refusals Dr. Forson Paa Kobina	TBC Dr Ernest Kenu	Post Ebola outbreak preparedness and response readiness at designated Point of Entry in Uganda Mr. Michael Muhoozi	Nucleic acid synthesis screening as a practical mechanism for securing innovation-UK and Europe policies Dr. Sana Zakaria	Accelerating country resilience of the IHR through Multisectoral Collaboration Ludy Suryantoro
Moderator	Nordin Charafi	Henry Willis	Rebecca Katz	Isaac Bogoch	Mary Wyer	Benedict Mushi	Courtney Carson	Remco Van de Pas
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
11.45am – 12.45pm	Mirror life: A One Health imperative for global health security	Laboratory Resilience: Future-Proofing Laboratory Infrastructure, Operations, and Networks	Delivering biosecurity under the Pandemic Accord: Global mechanisms for managing emerging biological risks	Promoting Resilience, Preparedness, Adaptation, and Response to Climate Change in Complex Crises (PREPARE-CC): Characterizing the Nexus of Conflict, Climate Change, and Systems to Inform Interventions	Biocontainment – Training and Response	Health Resilience- Preparedness Across Sectors	Rethinking Pharmaceutical R&D for Accountability, Access, and Global Health Security	Beyond Funding: The Strategic Role of the Private Sector in Global Health Security
	Mirror Bacteria: The Science, the Global Risk, and the Need for Action Tom Inglesby	Resilience by Design: Private Sector Innovations for Future-Proof Laboratories Peter Boase	Evaluating AI-Enabled biological risks to futureproof treaties and implementation Dr Sana Zakaria	Contextual Validation and Interpretation of Integrated Evidence Boukary Sangare	Tranquil Passport: Full-scale exercise of American special pathogen readiness and response Jade Flinn	Aviation Pandemic Preparedness Program: An Adaptable Modelling Framework For Infection Risk And Control Mr Dr Jason Armstrong	Policy Tools for LMICs: Open Licensing, Public Funding Conditions, and Regional Procurement Ronald Tundang	From Advancement to Impact: How Private Sector Capabilities Strengthen Pandemic Preparedness Samantha Dittrich
	Mirror Life and One Health: Anticipatory Governance vs. Surveillance and Response Li Yang Hsu	Policy and Investment Strategies for Laboratory Sustainability Lisa McDonald	The Pandemic Preparedness Engine (PPX): A Digital Platform to Accelerate Countermeasure Development and advance pandemic preparedness Danny Scarponi	Conflict Analysis and Needs Assessments Ben Spears	Building a Resilient Frontline: A Biorisk Management Intervention for Healthcare Graduates in Abuja, Nigeria Juliet Chibuzor Joseph	Activating Private Sector Capabilities and investments for Faster, Stronger Outbreak Response Dr. Liziem Valladares	From Principles to Practice: Public R&D Transparency and Access Conditions for Global Health Security Michelle Childs	Rapid Diagnostics, Rapid Response: How Developers Shaped COVID-19 Testing Dr. Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva
	Drawing the Lines Without Stalling Synthetic Biology Yensi Flores-Bueso	A Recipient Perspective: Global Partnerships for Laboratory Resilience Dr. Pragya Yadav	Implementing the three-legged stool for responsible research David Stiefel	Conflict Analysis and Needs Assessments Michelle Gaffey	Video-Reflexive Evaluation of a 24-Hour Biocontainment Simulation Using the SPORSA Framework Dr. Mary Wyer	A Mobile Resilience App to Support Health Workers Exposed to Armed Conflict and Attacks: Pilot Experience from the Infectious Diseases Institute, Uganda Mrs Ruth Nakaboga Kikonyogo	Market Concentration, R&D Priorities, and Global Health Security: Rebalancing Power in Pharmaceutical Governance Yuanqiong Hu	Private Sector’s Role in Strengthening Global Health Security through Diagnostics Innovation Jilian Sacks
Moderator	Anna Laura Ross	Dr Andrew Nerlinger	Peter Babigumira Ahabwe	Stephanie Petzing	Saskia Popescu	Mir Rahimzai	Mark Eccleston-Turner	Aurelia Attal-Juncqua
12.45pm – 2.15pm	Lunch Ballroom 1 Poster Presentations Banquet Hall
12.45pm – 2.15pm	Lunch Sponsored Sessions World Organisation for Animal Health: Advancing Biological Threat Reduction in Southeast Asia: Supporting the ASEAN Leader’s Declaration on Biosafety and Biosecurity – (Room 405) IBBIS, CEPI, and RAND: Evidence to Action: Informing Biosecurity Decisions in an Era of Emerging Biotechnology – (Room 410) Gates Foundation and RANI: Unlocking Cobenefits for Health Security and Surveillance – (Room 302-303) PhRMA and The Pandemic Fund: From Transaction to Transformation Private Sector Partnerships That Build Pandemic Preparedness – (Room 401-402)
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
2.15pm – 3.15pm	Tackling Agro-Crime and Agro-Terrorism: Insights from Law Enforcement and Veterinary Services	The Missing Population in Disaster Preparedness: Integrating Pediatric Needs into Emergency Response	Safeguarding Science and Dual-use Research	Biosurveillance of the Future: Boundless technologies, bounded data, can the two co-exist?	Global Health Security in the Era of Financialization	Transmission-interrupted: Interventions and Risk Awareness	Mental Health and Conflict Dynamics: Displacement, Mental Health, and Access to Care for Refugees in Urban Uganda	Strengthening Health Systems Under Strain: Lessons from Conflict and Frontline Response
	Strengthening Veterinary-Law Enforcement Collaboration in the Investigation of Suspicious Biological Events Michael Bryan	TBC Tress Goodwin	Strengthening Global Health Security Through Information Integrity: Frameworks, Best Practices, and Global Standards Diego Zendejas	Exploring successful all-hazards approach with Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Dr. Kaushik Sarkur	Financialisation and global health security: pathways of transformation Benjamin Hunter	Obscure(d) Outbreaks: A Scoping Review of Concealed Outbreaks and Their Implications for Global Health Governance Anna Bezruki	Centers refugee women’s lived experiences of mental well-being and access to care in urban Uganda, drawing on participatory research led in collaboration with refugee communities and local partners Jessica Koreis	TBC Dr. Stephanie R. Petzing
	Tackling Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Coordinated Strike Tirelo Bakae	TBC Savannah Hestmark	Sustainable Domestic Health Security Financing Through Existing NCD Health Policy Dr. Jean Richards	Organizational collaborations, can pharmacies be a new front line? Dr. Tracey Thornley	Racial Capitalism, Raced Finance and Global Pandemic Governance Dena Kirpalani	Avian Influenza at the Human–Animal Interface in the Middle East: Multi-Host Surveillance and Zoonotic Risk Assessment Dr Ghazi Kayali	Draw connections between research findings on social cohesion and trust in institutions, and the design of a conflict-sensitive intervention connecting mental wellbeing and potential conflict dynamics Anas Abuelgasim	Understanding Ukraine’s immunization supply chain resilience in the face of war: a mixed-method study Mr Stanislav Gaievskyi
	Veterinary and Law Enforcement Collaboration Against Agro-Crime and Agro-Terrorism in Malaysia Muhammad Nazri Bin Khairuddin	A Recipient Perspective: Global Partnerships for Laboratory Resilience Leah Goodman	Safeguarding Science: Adapting Research Security Frameworks for the Global Science Ecosystem Dr. Julie Fischer	Can We Build a “Middle Space”? Hybrid Governance to Combine Restricted, Open, and Mobility Data Jane Blake	Financialization, fragility and inequities in India’s health system: Learning from the pandemic, preparing for future threats Abhay Shukla	AI-driven Epidemic Intelligence: Multidomain Data-informed National Early Warning System in Bangladesh Tahmina Shirin	TBC Ursula Kajani	Establishment of an Antibiogram Profiling System to Strengthen Antimicrobial Stewardship at General Military Hospital–Bombo, Uganda (2025) Mr. Robert Masamba
Moderator	Dan Donachie	Jade Flinn	Anthony Torres-Ruesta	Nino Kharaishvili	Beth Cameron	Angela Rasmussen	Dr. Anyess Travers	Jeff Freeman
3.15pm – 3.45pm	Afternoon Tea Ballroom 1
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
3.45pm – 4.45pm	Improving Detection in Resource-Constrained Settings	SIMBA (Signature Initiative to Mitigate Biological Threats in Africa) As A Model For Regional Collaboration	Strengthening Infection Prevention and Control	Evaluating Disease Risk and Surveillance Strategies	Comparative Perspectives on Smallholder Farmer Engagement with One Health: Livestock, Livelihoods, and Animal Disease Governance in the Indo-Pacific	Data-Driven Health Leadership	Collaboration and Accountability: Multi-Sectoral Partnerships, Regional Governance, and Decentralized Learning for Health Security	Coordinated Approaches to Integrated Health Security in Ukraine
	Leveraging an Interactive SMS Micro-Course to Strengthen Case Detection & Reporting among Resource constrained Health Workers in Uganda Mrs Ruth Nakaboga Kikonyogo	Signature Initiative to Mitigate Biological Threats in Africa Karoline Laila Oberländer	Building Pacific Capacity to Detect and Respond to Antimicrobial Resistance Tebuka Toatu	Evaluating multi-scale pathogen surveillance strategies for pandemic preparedness Mr Ben Reddy	Sustaining Livelihoods and Health: A One Health Approach to Small-Scale Pig Farming in Bangladesh Kaosar Afsana	Building a Resilient Frontline: A Dual-Use Digital Platform for Enhanced TB Surveillance and Outbreak Preparedness in Kenya Mr Benson Otieno Ulo	Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships and enhancing vector control through multi-sectoral networks ( Ms Annie Vanessa Dori	Perspectives from Leadership: Bridging Policy and Action in Ukraine Dr Kateryna Denysenko
	Health System Resilience to Climate and Disaster – Small Island Developing States Anna Rom	Project 99 BIOCAP-ECA, EU CBRN CoE Initiative Sandra Matinyi	Strengthening Pathogen Detection and IPC Capacity Through Enhanced HAI Surveillance: Insights from Jordan’s GAIHN Point Prevalence Surveys Point Prevalence Surveys Dr. Rola Ghanem	Strengthening Leadership Decisions Under Uncertainty: A Regional Visualization Model Transforming Genomic and Surveillance Data Into Action Peera Hemarajata	Local Coalitions and Animal Disease Governance: Rethinking African Swine Fever Response in the Philippines Queenie Tomaro	Understanding the Role of Human Mobility Restrictions in Limiting the Spread of COVID-19 in a Dense Population Setting Dr Kamran Najeebullah	Strengthening Regional ASEAN Ownership: ASEAN’s Transition to a Self-Sustaining Model for Public Health Emergency Management Dr Vanessa Middlemiss	Information Integrity for Ukrainian Health Security: Threats and Opportunities for Global Communities of Practice Dr Filippa Lentzos
	Effectiveness of Biomedical Sample Transport by the Private Transport Union in Guinea (2022–2025) Dr Alpha Mahmoud Barry	Africa CDC Biosafety and Biosecurity Strategy Zibusiso Masuku	Surveillance of ESKAPEE Multidrug-Resistant bacteria in Malaysian hospitals Dr. Irina Etobayeva	A Replicable Adaptation of the WHO STAR Toolkit Risk-Profiling Framework for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (EREIDs) in the Philippines: An Implementation Study Using the RE-AIM Framework Dr Wendee Concepcion	From Crisis Management to Sustainable Animal Health Governance in the Indo-Pacific Sara Davies	A continent-wide machine learning-based study to bridge the policy-implementation gap of antimicrobial resistance in Africa Dr. Amel Elbasyouni	Decentralizing Lessons Learned: A Novel Structure for Monkeypox Intra-Action Review in Sierra Leone Sandi Genda	Preparing and Responding to CBRN threats in Ukraine: Lessons from the frontline of deliberate events Dr Gemma Bowsher
Moderator	Anyess Travers	Peter Babigumira Ahabwe	Dr. Evelyn Wesangula	Janet Robinson	Dr Michelle Rourke	Jacob Madden	Rick Brennan	Fawzia Fall
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
4.45pm – 5.45pm	One Health Legal Preparedness to Achieve Greater Health Security	Robust Lab Systems and Sustainability	Strengthening Health Security Investments	Prioritising epidemic-prone diseases in Africa, Europe and North America. A panel discussion of different methods	The Sustainability of Biodefense and Biosecurity Innovation	From Hospitals to Waterways: Genomic and Environmental Surveillance for Pandemic Preparedness	AIxBio and DURC: Practical Governance Considerations	Optimizing Governance of Health Emergencies at a Regional Level: The value-add, the institutions and mandates, and recommended ways forward
	Importance of Legal Mapping As Tool to Support One Health Katherine Ginsbach	Surging to respond: Key issues for lab systems in public health emergencies Andrew Lee	Promoting Sustainability in Nigeria’s Health Security Investment through Strategic Advocacy and Accountability Olympus Ade-Banjo	Prioritisation of infectious disease threats to inform preparedness and response planning: Activities and key lessons from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Giorgia Solda	Cost-benefit analysis of mandatory synthetic nucleic acid screening in the UK Dr Paul-enguerrand Fady	Embedding Genomic Surveillance in a National Referred Hospital: A Vietnam Pilot for Pandemic Preparedness Dr Peera Hemarajata Samura	TBC TBC	What is the value of regional cooperation in managing health emergencies? Ahmed Razavi
	Decoding One Health under the Pandemic Agreement Kashish Aneja	Laboratory Safety Assessment (LSA) Tool: Beyond Laboratory Biosafety Levels Gerald Pellegrini	Containing Ebola at Its Source: A Partial Estimate of the U.S. Economic Return on Global Health Security Investments in Africa, 2016–2023 Benjamin Park	Regular disease prioritisation as a tool for capacity strengthening and resource allocation Neema Kamara	The Post-COVID Reckoning: Can the U.S. Sustain Biodefense Innovation? Dr Aurelia Attal-Juncqua	Implementing National Wastewater Surveillance System: Capacity Building, Pathogen Detection, and Public Health Preparedness Dr Afreenish Amir	TBC Claire Standley	What are the mandates of regional organizations, and how are they being governed? Sumegha Asthana
	One Health Governance for Antimicrobial Resistance Nishtha Arora	Strengthening Biorisk Management in the Asia-Pacific: Initiatives and Opportunities Dr Renata Polotnianka	Ebola Virus Disease Response Costs: A Systematic Synthesis to Inform Sustainable Outbreak Financing Dr. Abigail Hunter	Prioritising current and emerging public health risks in Canada to inform decision-making and strategic planning Marsha Taylor	Advancing National Health Security by Cascading Biosafety Competencies to Enhance Biosurveillance and Minimize Laboratory-Associated Risks Mr. Sophea Phoeurn	Identifying undetected Sudan virus disease cases through algorithm-supported active case search, Uganda Daniel Wenani	TBC Sana Zakaria	What are key recommendations for regional governance for health emergencies moving forwards? Afifah Rahman-Shepherd
Moderator	Olympus Adebanjo	Zibusiso Masuku	David Harper	Jonathan Suk	Felicia Pradera	Mary Wyer	Anna Laura Ross	Dr. Mohamed A Mohamed

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Day 4 – Friday 12 June 2026
8.00am – 9.00am	Health Emergencies in a Complex World Conference Halls 1–3 Dr Rabi Abeyasinghe, World Health Organisation Representative to Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore Dr Paige Armstrong, Director of the Global Health Center, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Janet Robinson, Senior Director, Global Health Security Service Center, FHI360 Prof Duncan Selbie, President of the International Association of National Public Health Associations, IANPHI Moderator: Prof Meru Sheel, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of Sydney
9.00am – 10.00am	Emerging Tech and Global Health Security Conference Halls 1–3 Rose Bernard, Research Associate, Kings College London Dr. Tom Inglesby, Director, John Hopkins Center for Health Security Dr Claire J Standley, Senior Biosecurity Initiative Lead, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Dr Sadaf Lynes, Director of Collaborative Surveillance, Workforce and Health Emergencies at the International Association for National Public Health Institutes Moderator: Dr Elizabeth Cameron, Senior Adviser to the Brown Pandemic Center, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health
10.00am – 10.30am	Morning Tea Ballroom 1
10.30am – 11.30am	Future of Multilateralism in Global Health Security Conference Halls 1–3 Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala, 7th Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Sufian Jusoh, Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Dr. Baba Soumare, Deputy Director General, WOAH Duncan Selbie, President, International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) Chee Yoke Ling, Executive Director, Third World Network (TWN). Moderator: Dr Revati Phalkey, Director, UNU-IIGH
11.30am – 12.30pm	Converging Risks Conference Halls 1–3 Dr Abdinasir Abubakar, World Health Organisation Representative, Lebanon Dr Alex Tasker, Associate Professor in One Health, University of Bristol Mayra Ameneiros, Senior Fellow, International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science Prof Tan Sri Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Professor and Executive Director of Sunway Centre for Planetary Health Dr Tomoya Saito, Director, Department of Intelligence and Emergency Response, Bureau of Health Security and Management, and Director, Center for Emergency Preparedness and Response, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security Moderator: Emma Ross, Director, Global Health Programme, Chatham House
12.30pm – 1.30pm	Politics and Outbreak Response Conference Halls 1–3 Amanda McClelland, Chief Program Officer, Resolve to Save Lives Dr Dick Chamla, Nairobi Hub Coordinator and Preparedness Manager at WHO Regional office for Africa Dr Chee Yoke Ling, Executive Director, Third World Network Dr Marc Ho, Director, Manpower Standards and Development, Ministry of Health Singapore and Advisor, Communicable Disease Agency Singapore Moderator: Dr. Isaac Bogoch, Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Medicine, and an Infectious Diseases specialist and General Internist at the Toronto General Hospital
1.30pm – 2.30pm	Lunch Ballroom 1
	Room 302 & 303	Room 304 & 305	Room 401 & 402	Room 403 & 404	Room 405	Room 406 & 407	Room 408 & 409	Room 410
2.30pm – 3.30pm	Empowering National Public Health Agencies: Strengthening EPR Capacities in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond	Health Security Collaboration in ASEAN	Early Detection and Epidemic Intelligence	Under Pressure: Health Emergencies, Community Resilience, and the Fight for Gender and Equity in Global Health Security	Collective Resilience: Building a Scalable Asia-Pacific Infectious Disease Network through Strategic Data Sharing and Partnership	Previewing the 2026 Africa Health Security Index: Transforming Health Security Through Data	AI and Digital Resources for Health Data Security	Biological Weapons Nonproliferation
	TBC Dr Zhen Xu	TBC Abdurrahman Amin Faisal	Bayesian Network Framework for COVID-19 Biosurveillance in Resource-Limited Settings: Madagascar Case Study Tombolaza canut Filamant	Emergency Department Preparedness During a Major Asymmetric Attack: Lessons from a Hospital in Southern Israel during the October 7, 2023, Massacre Maximilian Nerlander	From Silos to Systems: Advancing Data Modernization at US CDC and Beyond Olga Henao	From Measurement to Action: Leveraging the Africa Health Security Index to Strengthen Preparedness in Africa Mr. Peter Babigumira Ahabwe	AI-Driven Healh Data Ecosystems and Emerging Risks of Data Missuse in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries Engr. Olumhense Adoghe	Bridging Commitments and Capabilities: Support Mechanisms for the Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention Sylvain Fanielle
	TBC Prof. Otto Helve	ASEAN Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) Network’s role in advancing capacities to mitigate and respond to biological and chemical threats Dato Dr. Chong Chee Kheong	Enhancing Early Cholera Detection: Diagnostic Performance of RDTs in a High-Burden Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo Xin Wang	Empowering Communities: WASH & Primary Healthcare Initiative in Islamabad’s Underserved Areas Dr Hassan Mahmoo	Interoperability in Practice: Aligning Data Standards across a Federated Public Health System Jacob Madden	Designing the Africa Health Security Index: A Collaborative Approach to Measuring Capacities Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo	The Role of AI in Information Hazard Management: Learnings from Nigeria Dr Kemisola Agbaoye	Negative space forensics and the emerging science of reading deliberate intent from outbreak patterns Michael Bryan
	TBC Prof Zoe Wainer	Establishing the ASEAN Biosafety and Biosecurity Network to operationalize the ASEAN Leaders’ Declaration on Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity Dr. Phonepadith Xangsayarath	Health Infrastructure Networks as the Foundation of Disease Detection and Response Dr. Nino Kharaishvili	Reimagining Health Security in Southeast Asia: Advancing Equity, Gender, and Decolonial Governance Ms Dominique Anne Aluquin	Forecasting Modeling Process for Decision-Making Jinwook Hong	Leveraging the Africa Health Security Index for Animal Health, Biosecurity, and One Health Integration Ian Peter Busuulwa	Digitalising ASEAN Health Sector Knowledge: The ASEAN Health Knowledge Management Platform (AHKMP) Sri Handika Utami	The Biological Weapons Convention in 2026: Emerging Technologies and Our Shared Role in Global Biosecurity Clarissa Rios
Moderator	Dr Neil Squires	Siobhan Bradley	Jane Blake	Gemma Bowsher	Dr. Peta-anne Zimmerman	Rachel Staley Grant	Barbara Del Castello	Ines Mergler
3.30pm – 4.30pm	From Framework to Practice: Operationalizing One Health and Emergency Response at National and Community Levels	Prepared, Responsive, Resilient: Health Security from Policy to Practice	Implementing the International Health Regulations: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific	The Emerging Biosecurity Landscape in Southeast Asia	Detection to Response: Regional Approaches to Health Security and AMR	Delivering Public Health in Conflict Zones: Protecting Health Workers and Sustaining Essential Services	Intelligence Before the Outbreak: AI, Genomic Surveillance, and Early Warning for Health Security	Operationalizing Health Security: Cross-Border Preparedness, Integrated Surveillance, and Outbreak Financing
	One Health in the Community: Operationalizing Community Health Emergency Preparedness with a One Health Focus Dr Dora Curry	Digitalizing National Disease Surveillance: Ethiopia’s EPPR- Pandemic Funded Project Experience with ePHEM and EIOS Integration Beza Tekleyohans	Dr Stella Chungong	Enhancing Biological Weapons Convention’s Confidence Building Measures in Southeast Asia: The Complementary Role of ASEAN Mechanisms Mely Caballero-Anthony	Wastewater Environmental Surveillance for Mass Gatherings: Applying Lessons Learned to Preparedness and Early Warning of Pathogens for AFCON and FIFA World Cup Events Noah Hull	Polio Eradication in War Zones: Lessons from NSTOP Dr Rana Jawad Asghar	AI-Powered Viral Forecasting for Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Biosecurity Danny Scarponi	Cross-Border Health Security in Action: IHR National Focal Point (NFP) Collaboration Across the United States, Canada, and Mexico for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Dawn Mapatano
	Operationalizing the 7-1-7 Framework for Enhanced Outbreak Response: Lessons from Kenya’s National Implementation (2024–2025) Dr Jedidah Kiprop	The United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team – Global outbreak intervention in a changing public health landscape Mr Sam Moreton	Dr Marc Ho	Emerging Biosecurity Landscape in Southeast Asia Julius Cesar Trajano	Regional Collaboration for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response: The ECSA-HC HEPRR Experience Mohamed A Mohamed	Delivering Essential Healthcare in Conflict Zones: Coordination, Protection, and System Resilience through PHEOC Coordination Dr Nadia Noreen	Machine Learning Driven Prediction of Antimicrobial Resistance in Nigerian Escherichia coli Isolates: Advancing Genomic Surveillance for Global Health Security Miss Joy Okebugwu	Bridging Laboratory–Epidemiology Siloes to Strengthen Wastewater Surveillance as a Global Health Security Strategy Peera Hemarajata
	Institutional Landscape for Pandemic Agreement Implementation in Thailand: A Systematic Agency Mapping Dr Naroeporn Nopwinyoowong	TBC Rick Brennan	Hon. Mr Marcus Samo	Convergence of Biotechnologies and Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Biological Security Jeselyn	Closing the AMR Action Gap: From Regional Frameworks to Frontline Change Evelyn Wesangula	When No Place Is Safe: Protecting Health Workers in Conflict Affected Pakistan Muhammad Asif Khan	Strengthening National Preparedness Through Catalytic Investment in Early Warning Surveillance Atsushi Samura	Financing at the Speed of an Outbreak: Public Financial Management for Global Health Security Liziem Valladares
Moderator	Giorgia Solda	Olympus Adebanjo	Qiu Yi Khut	Jennifer Dela Rosa	Paige Snider	Gemma Bowscher	Angela Rasmussen	Fawzia Fall
4.30pm – 5.30pm	Building Genomic Surveillance Capacity for Global Health Security	From Signal to Response: Strengthening Epidemic Preparedness Through Surveillance and Health System Capacity	Ready or Not: Building Faster, Smarter Responses to Infectious Disease Threats	AI-Enabled Epidemic Intelligence: Advancing Climate-Informed Early Warning Surveillance
	Engineering the AI, Data, and Interoperability Backbone of Bangladesh’s EWS System Kaushik Sarkar	The Development of Epidemic Ready Primary Health Care (ERPHC) and use of 7-1-7 to track progress in preparedness: An IPC and IDSR Capacity Building Case Study from Sierra Leone Prof Susan Michaels-strasser	TBC Brian Wong	Climate-Informed Epidemic Intelligence and Early Warning for Public Health Systems Atsushi Samura
	From Twinning to Training: Building Sustainable Genomic Epidemiology Capacity for Global Health Security Sherrie Staley	Signals across the pond: Bilateral aircraft wastewater monitoring paves the way for international cooperation on pathogen surveillance for public health Ian Ruskey	IPPS Secretariat – 100-Day Therapeutics Mission Armand Mbanya	Unlocking Population-scale Risk Prediction and Decision Intelligence with Frontier AI Models Kaushik Sarkar
	Development of a Wastewater Surveillance Network to Detect and Monitor the Emergence and Spread of Known and Novel Infectious Diseases within Taiwan Dr. Tien Yao Chang	Engineering-Driven Assessment of Pathogen Transmission Risks in Urban Healthcare Facilities of LMICs Hassan Nawaz Lalee	Surveillance System Evaluation in Response to Rising Infectious Disease Threats: Lessons Learnt from the Measles Situation in Southern Vietnam in 2024 Dr. Nguyen Thanh Thao	From Fragmented Data to Unified Action: Bangladesh Experience Tahmina Shirin
Moderator	Georgios Theocharopoulos	Olympus Adebanjo	Nikki Romanik	Arun Rathnakumari
4.30pm – 6.00pm	Closing Reception & Award Ceremony Banquet Hall

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