HPV Prevention and Control Board Kick-off

Meeting objectives:

• To learn from the 20 years Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board activities
• To get an overview from major stakeholders, of past and ongoing initiative/activities in the HPV field (focus WHO/EURO region)
  - at the level of epidemiology
  - at the level of screening
  - at the level of prevention
  - at the level of treatment
  - at the level of policy/implementation/integration
• To define topics and activities that are complementary and synergistic with ongoing initiatives
• To discuss and prioritize topics for technical meetings
• To discuss and prioritize regions/countries for country meetings
• To draft a work plan of the HPV prevention board for the coming year

December 1, 2015

• Introduction & Welcome

• Introduction on the HPV Board initiative (pdf, 373 KB)
  Pierre Van Damme 

• Lessons learnt from more than 20 years Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board, activities, accomplishments and challenges (pdf, 1.68 MB)
  Mark Kane, co-founder of the VHPB

• Overview of activities, accomplishments  and challenges of the ICO (Institut Català d'Oncologia) Information Centre on HPV and Cancer (pdf, 2.85 MB)
  Xavier Bosch

• HPV prevention and control: Overview of activities, accomplishments and challenges of ECDC (pdf, 1.95 MB)
  Pier Luigi Lopalco

• HPV prevention and control: Overview of activities, accomplishments and challenges of WHO (pdf, 297 KB)
  Liudmila Mosina

• HPV prevention and control: Overview of activities, accomplishments and challenges of CDC (pdf, 1.25 MB)
  Susan Wang
  Lauri Markowitz 

• Overview of challenges at the level of HPV prevention (pdf, 1.49 MB)
  Margaret Stanley

• Overview of challenges at the level of HPV cervical Cancer screening (pdf, 3.14 MB)
  Mario Poljak

• Overview of challenges at the level of policy and implementation (pdf, 738 KB)
  Sylvia de Sanjose

• Discussion and conclusion of first day

• Key note lecture: How to deal with a HPV vaccine safety crisis. Perceptions attitudes (pdf, 3.54 MB)
  Emilie Karafillakis

December 2, 2015

• Discussion and prioritizing topics for technical meetings
• Discussion and prioritizing regions/countries for country meetings
• Next steps: Getting additional support, getting additional advisers, publications/output, target audience, website,..
  
• Conclusions and closing of the meeting