Please join IANPHI on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at 9am EDT / 3pm CEST for the next COVID-19 webinar that will address genome surveillance and how national public health institutes (NPHIs) can further develop genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 as part of their surveillance systems through regional and international networks.

The webinar will feature NPHI case studies by Prof. Abdoul Salam Ouedraogo, head of the AMR Reference Laboratory at Burkina Faso’s Institut National de Santé Publique; Dr. Claudia Perandones, director of the Executive Unit for Higher Education and Training at Argentina’s National Administration of Laboratories and Institutes of Health; and Dr. Tyra Grove Krause, executive vice president ad interim for infectious disease preparedness at Denmark’s Staten Serum Institut.

A panel discussion will focus on solutions to enhance NPHIs’ genomic sequencing and surveillance capacities. The panelists will be Dr. Yenew Kebede Tebeje, head of the Division of Laboratory Systems at Africa CDC; Massab Umair, senior scientific officer at Pakistan’s National Institute of Health; Dr. Lisa Indar, director of the Surveillance Disease Prevention and Control Division at CARPHA; and Dr. Juliana Leite, virologist and laboratory specialist at PAHO. The session will be moderated by Dr. Jinal Bhiman, senior medical scientist at the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis of South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Thanks to support from U.S. CDC, IANPHI will offer live interpretation on Zoom in French, Spanish and Portuguese. Please let them know whether you will need interpretation by completing the relevant field on the Zoom registration page.