The current technological age means that we can live in a permanently inter-connected reality, where Public Health is a constant challenge. Climate change is altering the distribution of species, and those which are pathogen vectors that can cause thousands of deaths per year in large areas are of particular relevance.
The workshops presented will focus on anticipating managing vector risks (current, imported and re-emerging risks) and the relevance for Public Health. They will also focus on the requirement for citizen involvement, the global and local challenges, and information transfer. Fundamental aspects such as the regulation of repellents used for self-protection, the evaluation of their effectiveness and the role they play in vector management plans will also be discussed.
The workshops have emerged out of the desire to spread a critical message in order to minimise the risk of contracting diseases through blood-sucking arthropods such as ticks and mosquitoes: Vector management, understood as an efficient programme for Integrated Vector Management (IVM) must necessarily integrate both environmental management measures and self-protection measures (such as anti-bite personal protection measures).
In this sense, IVM requires new technologies to be incorporated, integrating wide-ranging expertise from robotics with the use of drones to achieve more efficient and less expensive environmental controls, to the industrialisation of new anti-bite repellent tools.
PURPOSE
- To bring together both the public (government) and private sectors (biocide product industry) to join efforts towards integrated management of the vector risks (arthropod vectors).
- To put a value on the business potential and opportunities for repellent tissues such as first order new strategic tools for personal protection against bites (self-protection). Place these tissues on the European market as biocide products, subject to European regulation and in need of rigorous methodologies to assess their effectiveness.
- Transmit the need to incorporate environmental management measures as well as self-protection measures in local integrated vector management programmes.
ADDRESSED TO
- Public administrations responsible for vector control.
- Administrations responsible for regulating biocide products.
- R&D and Innovation departments in companies related to technical tissues.
- Tissue companies interested in internationalising their innovative products.
- Universities and research centres.
- Professional sectors with a high risk of vector transmission: veterinarians, biologists, environmental agents, forest officers, forest fire fighters, forest workers, etc.
| AGENDA | |
|---|---|
| 08.45-9.15 | Admission of attendees |
| 09.15-10.15 | Vector Control and Monitoring Procedures: lessons learnt and future prospects ► Dr. Rubén Bueno-Marí, Technical Director and R&D and Innovation Manager for LOKÍMICA |
| 10.15-10.30 | Question time |
| 10.30-11.30 | Blood-sucking arthropod repellent tissues of veterinary and medical importance: active materials, anti-bite products, regulation and evaluation. ► Dr. Félix Fontal-Cazalla, Entomologist at TECNALIA’s Urban Environmental Health Laboratory (SAU) |
| 11.30-11.45 | Question time |
| 11.45-12.30 | Coffee break |
| 12.30-13.15 | Trends in technologies to incorporate anti-vector substances to tissues: advantages and limitations ► Ms. Ángels Rovira, Researcher at LEITAT’s Department of RD-Applied Chemistry and Materials |
| 13.15-14.00 | The relevance of self-protection for the local management of vector risks ► Mr. José María Cámera Vicario, Chief Veterinary Officer of the Technical Vector Control Unit, Madrid Environmental Health Department, MADRID CITY HALL |
| 14.00-14.15 | Question time |
| 14.15 | Conclusions and closing remarks |
