Programme 31 January

PDPC Kick-off Frontrunner projects

Location: De Machinist, Willem Buytewechstraat 45, Rotterdam
Date: Tuesday 31 January
Time 14.30 - 18.00

09.30			Morning programme - Just for the PhD's and Postdocs Secrets of the TU Delft Meet at the following address: TU Delft Aula, Mekelweg 5, Delft Including lunch at Café Labs
			PDPC Kick-off Frontrunner projects
14.30	-	15.00	Entree
15.00	-	15.05	Welcome Prof.dr. Pearl Dykstra Societal Preparedness Research - PDPC Full professor - Erasmus University Rotterdam Moderator Kick-off Frontrunner Projects 31 January
15.05	-	15.15	Welcome to the Kick off Prof.dr. Marion Koopmans Scientific director - Pandemic Preparedness Rsearch - PDPC Head of the Department of Virology - Erasmus MC
15.15	-	15.45	Keynote Prof.dr. Thea Hilhorst Thea Hilhorst is an expert in development in areas affected by disaster, conflict or fragility, with a special focus on aid-society relations: the impact of humanitarian aid on society and the ways in which people and institutions shape the organisation of aid relations. She is directing a research programme around situations where conflicts meet disaster. Her research programmes have taken place in settings affected by disaster, conflict and fragility, including Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka. Currently, her main research programme concerns where “Conflict meets disaster’, that studies disaster governance in high-conflict, low-conflict and post-conflict societies. Thea Hilhorst has been awarded the prestigious Spinoza Prize for her work on the impact of humanitarian aid on society and the ways in which people and institutions shape the organization of aid relations. More information is available on www.eur.nl/people/thea-hilhorst
15.45	-	16.45	Poster presentations of the five Frontrunner projects (10 min each - Including Q&A) Frontrunner 1 Climate change and increased risks of vector-borne virus outbreaks Maarten Schrama Universiteit Leiden Delft University of Technology, Geoscience & Remote Sensing/ KNMI Frontrunner 2 Predicting, measuring and quantifying airborne virus transmission Suzanne Mijnhardt Kain Saygan PhD PhD Frontrunner 3 Pandemic lessons for flood disaster preparedness R.A.J. (Robert) Borst Researcher in global health governance Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management Frontrunner 4 Towards social and urban resilience for pandemics and disasters Guusje Enneking Lotte Schrijver PhD PhD Frontrunner 5 International Network Surveillance for Pandemic EmergenCe via Transport hubs Gertjan Medema Principal Investigator Delft University of Technology, Sanitary Engineering / KWR Impact Academy Valerie Eijrond PDPC
16.45			Meet & Greet the Frontrunner Projects
18.00			Drinks & Bites