About 150 people will converge on Dunedin to take part in two major world health and infectious diseases conferences next week.
The conferences will be held back to back for the first time., and one of the infectious disease discussion topics will be rabies, a disease which kills an estimated 60,000 people each year, six times as many as Ebola. The Otago Global Health Institute’s ninth annual two-day conference starts at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery next Wednesday and will be hosted by the University of Otago’s Centre for International Health.
A world authority on rabies, Prof Sarah Cleaveland, of Glasgow University, will link the two conferences by giving a free public lecture, titled "Towards the global elimination of rabies: evidence, interventions, and impact", at the art gallery at 7pm next Thursday. The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases’ (ASID) annual New Zealand three-day scientific meeting starts at the same venue that day.
