Date & Place
18-19 February 2020
DTU Food - National Food Institute
Kemitorvet Bygning 202, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Invited speakers
Alessandro Cassini
Alessandro Cassini is a medical doctor specialised in public health and epidemiology of infectious diseases. After an MSc LSE & LSHTM, he joined the European centre for Disease Prevention and Control to lead the Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) project, while also focusing on bridging the communication and technical gap between risk assessors and managers (knowledge translation) and ultimately enhancing informed and evidence-based health policy decision-making. At ECDC, Alessandro has also been responsible for country visits to discuss AMR issues, for field work in outbreak response (e.g. Ebola), for EUCAST and supported the development of risk ranking methodologies. In March 2019, Alessandro joined the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Technical and Clinical Hub (Department of Integrated Health Services) at the World Health Organization.
Richard Juckes
Richard Juckes is the head of Health Group at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The AIHW produces authoritative, independent information and statistics to inform and support better policy and service delivery decisions, leading to better health and wellbeing for all Australians. Health Group focuses on the health status of the population, monitoring diseases and risk factors and undertaking Australian Burden of Disease analysis and reporting. Richard has developed expertise across many components of the Australian health system, working in a wide range of health policy and health data roles for over 20 years.
Tarang Sharma
Tarang Sharma is a Technical Officer with the Knowledge Management, Evidence and Research for Policy-making within the Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation at the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. She has previously worked with the Editorial and Methods department of Cochrane at their headquarters and as a Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) both in the UK, as well as a Research fellow with the Nordic Cochrane Centre and as a Health Economist with Novo Nordisk in Denmark.
She is interested in supporting the use of evidence in policy-making, knowledge translation, evidence-based priority setting of health research and the inclusion of patient reported outcomes, patient experience and citizen involvement in decision-making, especially in the field of mental health. She has a PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology from the University of Copenhagen a MPH from University of Sheffield (UK) and a MS from New York University (USA).
Program
| Tuesday 18 February 2020 | |
|---|---|
| 9h00 | Registration |
| 9h30 | Welcome & Presentation of COST action CA18218 burden-eu — Brecht Devleesschauwer, Action Chair, Sciensano, Belgium Download the presentation The BoD network of the WHO Regional Office for Europe — Christian Gapp, Acting Unit Head, WHO Regional Office for Europe Download the presentation |
| 10h00 | Short-term scientific missions and IPC conference grants Download the presentation |
| 10h15 | COST administration: reimbursement rules Download the presentation |
| 10h30 | Coffee break |
| 11h00 | Using temporal heat maps as a visualization tool to analyze time changes: A preliminary analysis of death and disability-adjusted life year rates in the European Union — João Vasco Santos, ARS Norte / University of Porto, Portugal Download the presentation Disease burden in the Nordic region: toll of life style differs among neighbour welfare states. Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 — Ann Kristin Knudsen, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway Download the presentation National burden of diseases studies using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) measure. Evolution of methods and construction of DALY – the example of Poland, 1997 – 2019 — Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Download the presentation The burden of disease in Spain: Results from GBD 2016 — Joan B Soriano, Hospital de La Princesa, Spain Download the presentation Estimating mortality attributed to ill-defined codes of death and at national and local level in Serbia — Jovana Todorovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Download the presentation Development and growth of the Italian Global Burden of Disease Initiative — Lorenzo Monasta, Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Italy Download the presentation Does the choice of life table in Burden of Disease studies impact how causes are ranked? — Georgia MC Dyer, Lund University, Sweden Download the presentation Disease burden calculation in the health impact assessment of the anti-smoking legislation proposal in Hungary — Balázs Ádám, University of Debrecen, Hungary Download the presentation Substituting red meat with pulses in the Danish diet: the impact on disease burden — Freja Fabricius, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Download the presentation Report of pilot workshop 'Estimating the national burden of foodborne disease' — Lucie Vermeulen, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands Download the presentation Computing the burden of infectious diseases in an ageing population: Accounting for competing mortality risks — Scott McDonald, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands Download the presentation Application of a new methodology and R package reveals a high burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) in Germany compared to the average in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2011 to 2012 — Sebastian Haller, Robert Koch Institute, Germany Download the presentation |
| 13h00 | Lunch |
| 14h00 | Separate WG Sessions – Vertical pillars (WG1-3) WG3 - Risk Factors |
| 15h30 | Coffee break |
| 16h00 | Separate WG Sessions – Horizontal pillars (WG4-5) |
| 17h30 | Closure of day 1 |
| 19h00 | burden-eu dinner Madklubben Bistro-de-Luxe |
| Wednesday 19 February 2020 | |
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| 9h00 | Welcome by Prof. Rasmus Larsen, Executive Vice President and Provost, Technical University of Denmark |
| 9h20 | Update on the GBD 2019 study — Mohsen Naghavi, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (videocall) Download the presentation |
| 9h40 | Measuring the impact of communicable diseases: methodologies, challenges and lessons learned — Alessandro Cassini, World Health Organization Download the presentation |
| 10h10 | Estimation of burden of disease and recent developments in Australia — Richard Juckes, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Download the presentation |
| 10h40 | Coffee break |
| 11h10 | The role of burden of disease analysis in evidence-informed policy making — Tarang Sharma, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe Download the presentation |
| 11h40 | Presentations of discussions and decisions of the WG meetings |
| 12h55 | Closure of Working Group meeting |
| 13h00 | Lunch |
| 14h00 | Management Committee meeting (restricted to MC members/substitutes/observers) |
| 16h00 | Closure of MC meeting |
Posters
| Presenting author | Title |
|---|---|
| Ana Catarina Sousa, University of Aveiro, Portugal | Dietary exposure to Cadmium and the associated burden – results from a duplicate diet study in Portugal (2012) |
| Andrea Farioli, University of Bologna, Italy | Disability weights for the calculation of DALYs: a new approach to evaluate the efficacy of Countries’ policies |
| Binyam Desta, University of Waterloo, Canada | Estimating the Incidence and Under-reporting of Diarrheal Disease in the General Population of four African LMIC (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania): the FOCAL Population Survey |
| Boris Bikbov, Mario Negri Institute, Italy | GBD data for health care planning – the importance to account for disproportions in prevalence and disability-adjusted life-years |
| Che Henry Ngwa, University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Disease-specific research funding and burden of disease: A comparative study |
| David Pereira, University of Porto, Portugal | Burden of neoplasms in Portugal (2007-2017) |
| David Pereira, University of Porto, Portugal | Health effects of dietary risks in Portugal |
| Elena Pallari, Cube Integrated Engineering, Cyprus | Alcohol misuse and illicit drug dependence research and disease burden in Europe |
| Evgenije Novta, University of Novi Sad, Serbia | Complete denture based prevalence estimation of edentulism for the Dental Clinic of Vojvodina in the 2008-2019 period |
| Filippo Ariani, Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Italy | Burden of injuries: high sensitivity to selection criteria of what worth to be considered “permanent” disability |
| Filippo Ariani, Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Italy | Data linkage between two different data sources on occupational fatal injuries |
| Filippo Ariani, Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Italy | Estimate of injury burden caused by commuting accidents through linkage of different data sources |
| Filippo Ariani, Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Italy | Gender, nationality and job position differences in burden for occupational injuries |
| Filippo Ariani, Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Italy | Subnational burden of occupational injuries occurred in Italy, 1976 - 2017 |
| Fimka Tozija, Medical School, North Macedonia | Road safety and burden of Road Traffic Injuries in Republic of North Macedonia |
| Giulia Collatuzzo, University of Bologna, Italy | Low back pain in European Countries; is the burden explained by known risk factors? |
| Grant Lewison, King's College London, UK | World Cancer Research: Does it Reflect the Disease Burden? |
| Heli Lehtomäki, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare & University of Eastern Finland, Finland | Burden of disease attributable to environmental risks in Finland |
| Joana Nazaré Morgado, University of Lisbon, Portugal | Food choices, health and costs : Effects of substituting red and processed meat intake for plant based foods in the Portuguese population preliminary study of a dietary change |
| Joao Paulo Teixeira, National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Portugal | The influence of ambient air pollution on health impacts |
| João Vasco Santos, University of Porto, Portugal | Burden of diseases and injuries attributable to risk factors in European Union (EU-28) in 2017 |
| Jovana Todorovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia | Mapping the data sources for burden of disease study in Serbia |
| Juanma García González, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain | The Burden of Premature Mortality: How Does It Affect to Working Ages in USA an Europe? |
| Juanma García González, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain | Tobacco consumption and gender gap in burden of mortality and life expectancy in Spain |
| Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek, Jagiellonian University, Poland | Eliciting main drivers of change of disease burden expressed in DALYs – the case of diabetes mellitus in Poland, 2000 – 2017 |
| Lucie Vermeulen, National Insitute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands | Antibiotic resistance related to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Global exposure and burden of disease to ESBL – top-down and bottom-up approaches |
| Lucie Vermeulen, National Insitute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands | Environmental infectious disease burden – what do we know? |
| Manuel Ribeiro, CERENA, Portugal | Spatio-temporal trends of particulate matter and ozone in Portugal: an exposure assessment |
| Marcel Leppée, Institute for Healthy Ageing, Croatia | The Burden of Disease in the Population of Croatia |
| Neophytos Stylianou, International Institute for Compassionate Care, Cyprus | Evaluation of Primary Care Service of Cyprus’s newly established National Health System: the route to implementing burden of disease studies |
| Ricardo Assunçao, National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Portugal | Dietary exposure to aflatoxins in the Portuguese population – the use of biomonitoring data to assess the associated burden |
| Sonja Scheffel, Main Association of Social Security Institutions, Austria | Use of routine data for epidemiology in Austria |
| Susana Viegas, ENSP-UNL, Portugal | Burden of occupational disease estimates can support policies to prevent chemical exposure in the workplaces |
| Zeljka Stamenkovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia | Unexpected changes in leading causes of death and risk factors in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last decade |
| Zubair Kabir, University College Cork, Ireland | The Past, Present and Future Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Ireland |
