title: Toward a transdisciplinary understanding and a global control of emerging infectious diseases.
abstract: The Franceville International Centre for Medical Research (CIRMF) organized a first international symposium on infectious diseases, environments, and biodiversity. Over 200 international experts gathered in Gabon to forecast and work to prevent the emergence of infectious diseases. This symposium aimed to strengthen the regional and international fight against the emergence of infectious diseases with high-level scientific debates. Toward this goal, it brought together experts in human and animal health, the environment, and ecology, including biologists, climatologists, microbiologists, epidemiologists, public health professionals, and human and social sciences specialists. National, regional and international participants were present to debate on the challenges related to the emergence of infectious diseases and on the responses to be implemented. The symposium was very successful, and plans for a second symposium of this kind to be held in the near future in another high-biodiversity area are already underway.
authors.affiliation: Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Gabon.
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: Anaïs
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Legand
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Debré
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans