This year we are hosting the Edinburgh World Pneumonia Day Symposium to both highlight the ongoing work in Edinburgh that is seeking new ways to combat the disease, and to place these studies in their global context.
Session 1:
• Debby Bogaert (University of Edinburgh) – Welcome and Introduction
• Harry Campbell (University of Edinburgh) – Current Understanding of Global Burden of Pneumonia in children
• Harish Nair (University of Edinburgh) – Child pneumonia epidemiology research - Edinburgh in the MDG and
SDG era
• Thushan De Silva (MRC Unit Gambia) – The potential for Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine use in LMICs:
insights in to vaccine immunogenicity in Gambian children
• Stefan Unger (University of Edinburgh) – The conundrum of undernutrition and pneumonia