World Rabies Day: a neglected disease that can be prevented

Online Webinar where international experts will be discussing about the control, prevention and elimination of #rabies around the world , and the challenges it brings on human, animal an environmental health.

Date and time: September 28 at 9am (ARG, GMT-3)

Platform: Zoom

Languages: ENG / SP (per channel, with simultaneous translation)

 

9.05 am: Introduction and welcome

Gabriel Capitelli, Fundación Mundo Sano, moderator
Marcelo Abril, Director of Mundo Sano Foundation
Esteban Turic, CEO Biogenesis Bagó

9.20 am: OIE activities in the field of rabies
Martín Minassian, Technical Assistant, Regional Representation of the World Organization for Animal Health for the Americas

9.40 am: The experience in the eradication of Rabies transmitted by dogs in Mexico
Verónica Gutiérrez Cedillo, National Head of the Rabies and other Zoonoses Program, National Center for Preventive Programs and Disease Control, Secretariat of Health of Mexico

10 am: The commitment of the Global Alliance for Rabies Control in the fight against the disease
Louis Nel, CEO of Global Alliance for Rabies Control

10.20 am: Regulations for the prophylaxis of Rabies
Osvaldo Rinaldi, President of the College of Veterinarians of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

10.30 am: Roundtable

11 am: Closing and acknowledgments