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The International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) is launching the first of a new series of educational online webinars on Wednesday 30 May 2012 at 13.00hrs (GMT). Please note that this is 14.00 in UK. The 60 minute webinar is titled Preparing Your Patients for Mass Gatherings: Euro 2012 and the London Olympics
Dr. Katherine Smallwood, Technical Officer, Health and Security Interface, Global Alert and Response, World Health Organization (WHO) will be the key speaker, and Dr. Robert Steffen will act as Moderator. Dr. Smallwood will provide a broad overview of the approach taken by WHO on health protection at mass gatherings. She will discuss some specific details on WHO's activities for the big events this year, including recommendations for preventing illness associated with travel this summer to EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine and to the Olympics in London, UK.
Travel medicine practitioners seeing travellers attending these events or any mass gatherings, as well as public health professionals who may be involved with planning for mass gathering events, will find the information contained in this webinar informative and timely.
If you are unable to attend the live webinar on 30 May, a recorded archive will be made available within 24 hours. You will have access to it for 6 months once posted. There is a small charge made to access both the webinar and archive.
To register for either the webinar or the archived programme, click here
For more information on the ISTM click here
