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The Abstract Book has gone green! 
The book, which includes the full text of abstracts presented at the meeting, is available here as one file and as six smaller files for quicker, convenient downloading. Printed copies of the Abstract Book will NOT be distributed at the conference in Philadelphia.  If you require a printed copy, print the book before the conference. Please note that the meeting rooms at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown and Pennsylvania Convention Center will NOT have Wi-Fi accessibility. Each attendee will receive a Program Schedule Book which contains the schedule of all conference sessions, session descriptions, presentation titles, abstract titles, presenters and authors.

Abstracts
Download the Call for Abstracts.
Download the abstract submission guidelines.

Late Breaker Abstracts
Submission deadline:  September 14, 2011
Late breaker abstract notices were sent in early November.

Call for Symposium Proposals
Submission deadline:  March 2, 2011
Download the symposium submission guidelines.
Symposium notices were sent in early May.

Symposium Organized in Honor of Gerald Keusch:
Global Health:  Digging Deeper into Its Breadth
Monday, December 5, 10:15 am - Noon
Presenters:
Gerald Keusch, Boston University
Zulfiqar Bhutta, Aga Khan University
Maria Freire, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Nancy Kass, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jeffrey Koplan, Emory University
Harold Varmus, National Cancer Institute

Pre-Meeting Courses:

Basic Science Pre-Meeting Course
December 3, 2011
Download the course agenda.

New Approaches for Immunologic Intervention in Tropical Infectious Diseases

Despite an enormous need and decades of effort, there have been few successes in the rationale design of vaccines and other forms of immunologic intervention in parasitic and other tropical infectious diseases. The repeated failures in this area have underscored the need to better understand the immune response to specific pathogens , to determine what type of responses are protective, and  how they can be specifically triggered and maintained for long periods of time. This 1-day course, designed for both graduate and post-graduate audiences, will highlight recent advances in the field of basic immunology that suggest new strategies for achieving these critical goals of vaccine development. In addition, the course will summarize the status of current major tropical vaccine efforts and discuss the use of immunologic intervention in the treatment of infection. The faculty consists of leaders in the field of fundamental immunology as well as experts engaged in vaccine development.

Clinical Pre-Meeting Course
December 3-4, 2011
Download the course agenda.

Management of Challenging Diseases from the Tropics 

This 1.5-day course will target tropical medicine practitioners, infectious disease consultants, epidemiologists, clinical microbiologists, graduate students, public health physicians, medical educators and other health care professionals with an interest in clinical tropical medicine. This course will be an audience participation-based case-series of challenging clinical questions from the tropics presenting unknowns covering major diagnostic and therapeutic challenges that clinicians face in the returning traveler or immigrant from overseas.  A panel of expert speakers will discuss the diagnosis and management of tropical viral infections, tropical ophthalmology, tropical dermatology, filariasis, leishmaniasis, traveler’s diarrhea and other travel related issues and vaccines.

Global Health Pre-Meeting Course
December 4, 2011
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The Role, Coordination and Impact of Global Health Development Organizations at the Country Level – A Tanzania Perspective

The scope and intensity of global health challenges ensures that no single country, agency, or initiative can work alone to combat these issues.  In countries where bilateral, multilateral, non-governmental, and private sector global health organizations have a presence, their staff must regularly interact with each other and with the host-government to ensure harmonization of efforts to fund, plan, implement, and evaluate programs.  This 1-day course for graduate students, public health practitioners, global health policy makers and donors will examine and discuss the complex, in-country dynamics among multiple aid partners, using Tanzania as a case-study.  The impact of health investments in Tanzania over the past decade will be highlighted.  Faculty will include aid organization and host government representatives from Tanzania.