Programme

Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Dr. Joaquín Barnoya, Minister of Health, Guatemala

Dr. Nuria Chávez Salazar, President, Guatemalan Association of Infectious Diseases (AGEI)

Dr. Carlos Tapia, President, Guatemalan Association of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (AGNCT)

Dr. Julio Tejada, President, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Guatemala

13:50 Major gaps in childhood pneumonia research priorities

Dr. Carina King, Karolinska Institute, Department for Global Public Health, Solna, Sweden

14:10 Assessing Devices for Community Pneumonia Diagnosis

Dr. Kevin Baker, International Consultant

14:30 The Lancet Global Health Oxygen Commission

Dr. Zoë Mullan, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Global Health

14:50 Oxygen Inequities in Latin America: Bridging the Gap for Better Health

Dr. Karen Czischke, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile

15:10 Antimicrobial Resistance and the Impact on Latin America

Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

15:30 The Role of Vaccines in the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

Prof. Noni Macdonald, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS

15:50 Fractional pneumococcal vaccine

Prof. Fiona Russell, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia; Infection and Immunity, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

16:10 Advancing RSV Prevention: Effective Vaccines and Antibodies for Protecting Infants Globally

Prof. Heather Zar, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and SA-MRC Unit on Child & Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa

16:30 Influenza A (H5N1): Understanding the Threat and Preparing for the Future

Prof. Timothy Uyeki, Influenza Division, CDC, Atlanta, USA

16:50 Double Threat: The Risk of Pneumonia from Respiratory Viruses and Secondary Bacterial Infections

Prof. Keith Klugman, Director of Pneumonia and Pandemic Preparedness, Gates Foundation

Professor Francisco Arancibia, Past-President, The Latin American Thoracic Association (ALAT)

Professor Silke Ryan, President, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

Professor Irina Petrache, President, The American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Mr. Dimitris Kontopidis, President, European Lung Foundation (ELF)

Professor Refiloe Masekela, President, Pan African Thoracic Society (PATS)

Dr. Edgar Amilcar Contreras, Representative of the Guatemalan Association of Internal Medicine (AMIG)