Session 8: Vector control and vaccines

Wednesday 5 April
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Chair: Professor Paul Young

Prevention is a key strategy to reducing drug-resistant infections. Reducing the carriers of pathogens via vector control, or preventing infections by using vaccine, can be strikingly effective at reducing the number of cases requiring antimicrobial therapy. This session will assess several different approaches.

• Associate Professor Heidi Drummer, Drummer/Poumbourios Laboratory, Burnet Institute
• Professor Subhash Vasudevan, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
• Associate Professor Gregor Devine, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute