The PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Control, the Institute of Tropical Medicine, “Pedro Kouri”, the Cuban Society of Microbiology and Parasitology, and the Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization are pleased to announce that the 19th International Course on Dengue, Oropouche, and other emerging arboviruses will be held from August 17 to 28, 2026, to provide training and prepare for new arbovirus epidemiological emergencies.

The course will allow updating and discussing the global and regional epidemiological situation and the advances in the understanding, prevention, and control of these diseases, as well as the complexity of addressing and preventing them.

Topics of the course include the clinical management and differential diagnosis, laboratory diagnosis and surveillance in the context of co-circulation of several arboviruses, control of vectors involved in transmission, advances in research on pathogenesis, vaccines, individual, viral, and vector genetics, as well as new control tools, the influence of climate change on the emergence of diseases transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and the management of outbreaks in the face of the new scenario of arbovirus cocirculation.

New international initiatives and their impact on the emerging control of arboviruses will be shared.

More information:

• English: https://promociondeeventos.sld.cu/dengue2026ing 
• Spanish: https://promociondeeventos.sld.cu/dengue2026