May 2018 - Bucharest, Romania
Meeting objectives:
- Provide an overview of the role of the health care provider (HCP) in the vaccination program, with a focus on HPV vaccination
- Discuss the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for HCP in different vaccination programs, e.g. school based, GP driven and vaccination clinics.
- Provide an overview of different information and trainings materials available for HCP at various international organisations (CDC, ECDC, WHO, …)
- Discuss country examples where HCP play an important role in the implementation and coverage of HPV vaccination and screening.
- Propose strategies to enhance the impact of HCP towards better screening and vaccination coverage.
- Discuss Romanian challenges, analysis of previous introduction, ways to address the issues and opportunities in prevention and control of HPV and HPV related cancers.
May 15, 2018
SESSION 1: OPENING AND OBJECTIVES
Chairs: Pierre Van Damme, Alexandru Rafila
- Welcome by National Institute of Public Health
Florentina Furtunescu, National Institute of Public Health (Romania)
- (pdf, 774 kB)
Alex Vorsters, University of Antwerp, HPV Prevention and Control Board (Belgium)
SESSION 2: HCP ATTITUDES TOWARDS VACCINATION
Chairs: Pierre Van Damme, Alexandru Rafila
Helena Maltezou, Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Greece)
- (pdf, 1.182 kB)
Emilie Karafillakis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK)
- (pdf, 665 kB)
Mira Kojouharova, National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (Bulgaria)
- Discussion
SESSION 3: HCP TRAINING IN SERVICE AND PRE-SERVICE
Chairs: Jo Yarwood, Paolo Bonanni
- (pdf, 674 kB)
Noel Brewer, University of North Carolina (USA)
- Feedback on survey done among European Medical students
Emilie Dierckx & Fien De Laet, EMSA Antwerp, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
- (pdf, 2.133 kB)
Franklin Apfel, World Health Communication Associates (UK)
SESSION 4: MATERIALS AVAILABLE FOR IN SERVICE TRAINING OF HCP
Chairs: Adriana Pistol, Emilie Karafillakis
- (pdf, 3.212 kB)
Noel Brewer, University of North Carolina (USA)
- (pdf, 1.143 kB)/ (pdf, 1.004 kB)
Alex Vorsters, University of Antwerp, HPV Prevention and Control Board (Belgium)
- (Pdf, 1.836 kB)
Jo Yarwood, Public Health England (UK)
- (pdf, 1.043 kB)
Xavier Bosch, Catalan Institute of Oncology (Spain)
- (pdf, 1.867 kB)
Kimon Chatzistamatiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
- Discussion
SESSION 5: COUNTRY EXAMPLES/EXPERIENCES
Chairs: Sharon Hanley, Eduardo Franco
- (pdf, 1.416 kB)
Diliana Dilkova, National Network of Health Mediators (Bulgaria)
- (pdf, 474 kB)
Ross Cameron, Health Protection Scotland (Scotland, UK)
- (pdf, 1.581 kB)
Jocelyn Raude, EHESP School of Public Health (France)
- Belgium/ Flanders:
- (pdf, 4.531 kB)
Pierre Van Damme, University of Antwerp, HPV Prevention and Control Board (Belgium)
(pdf, 2.926 kB)
Madalina Preda, “Carol Davila� University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Romania)
(pdf, 488 kB)
Pierre Van Damme, University of Antwerp, HPV Prevention and Control Board (Belgium)
- (pdf, 3.686 kB)
Nubia Muñoz
- Discussion
- Introduction of the break-out sessions
SESSION 6: BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Chairs: Adriana Pistol, Emilie Karafillakis
- Break-out sessions:
- Topic. SWOT of School based systems and GP based systems
Chair: Paolo Bonanni
- Topic. Should we monitor the attitudes of HCW towards primary and secondary HPV prevention/immunisation in general, if yes how;
Chair: Alex Vorsters
- Topic. Materials available for in service training. What is needed? Is other material needed? Are the available sources well-known?
Chair: Joanne Yarwood
- Presentations from the break-out sessions & discussion
May 16, 2018
SESSION 7: HPV PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN ROMANIA CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Chairs: Alex Vorsters, Corina Silvia Pop
- Welcome by Mrs Sorina Pintea, Minister of Health
- (pdf, 468 kB)
Adriana Pistol, National Institute of Public Health (Romania)
- (pdf, 1.785 kB)
Xavier Bosch, Catalan Institute of Oncology (Spain)
- (pdf, 1.500 kB)
Alexandru Rafila, National Institute of Infectious Diseases "Matei Bals" (Romania)
- (pdf, 3.386 kB)
Carmen Ungurean, National Institute of Public Health (Romania)
- (pdf, 4.337 kB)
Florian A Nicula, Ion Chiricuta Institute of Oncology (Romania)
- (pdf, 2.445 kB)
Gindrovel Dumitra, National Society of Family Medicine (Romania)
Sandra Alexiu, National Society of Family Medicine (Romania)
- (pdf, 417 kB)
Adriana Baban, Marcela Penta* (the presenter), Babes-Bolyai University (Romania)
- Discussion
SESSION 8: BREAK-OUT SESSIONS ON PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF HPV AND HPV RELATED CANCERS IN ROMANIA
Chairs: Marc Arbyn, Nubia Muñoz
- Introduction of the break-out sessions
- Break-out sessions:
- Strengths
Chair: Adriana Pistol
- Weakness
Chair: Alexandru Rafila
- Opportunities
Chair: Marc Arbyn
- Threats
Chair: Patrick Achimas
- Presentations from the break-out sessions & discussion
​SESSION 9: MEETING CONCLUSIONS
Chairs: Pierre Van Damme, Alexandru Rafila
- (pdf, 363 kB)