The following renowned experts have confirmed their participation at ACPID 2012:
KEYNOTE ADDRESS SPEAKER:
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe
2007 Nobel Prize for Peace Winner
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace, as Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4). Currently, he is Chairman of the Munasinghe Inst. of Development (MIND), Colombo; Professor of Sustainable Development at SCI, University of Manchester, UK; Institute Professor at the Vale Sustainable Development Inst., Federal Univ. of Para, Brazil; and Distinguished Guest Professor at Peking University, China
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PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Plenary Talk: The global burden and action plan for diarrhoeal diseases
Prof. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Pakistan
Husein Laljee Dewraj Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) for Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals
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Plenary Talk: The principles of rational use of antibiotics
Prof. Ada Yonath, Israel
2009 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
Director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Plenary Talk: The many complexities of viral hepatitis
Prof. Anupam Sibal, India
Senior Consultant, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Apollo Centre for Advanced Pediatrics
Plenary Talk: A general overview of paediatric tuberculosis
Prof. Ben J. Marais, Australia
Associate Professor, Paediatrics & Child Health, Children’s Hospital, Westmead, The University of Sydney
OTHER INVITED SPEAKERS: