The programme for this symposium will consist of three scientific sessions, each containing one plenary lecture (45 minutes) and 4-5 free papers (15 minutes each), selected from research abstracts submitted by the participants. The time schedule is shown below. Abstracts / slides of the presentations can be viewed by clicking on appropriate hyperlinks.

08.15 – 09.00 Registration

09.00 – 09.15 Opening of the symposium (Per Ashorn, University of Tampere)

09.15 – 11.15 Session I: Global burden of disease

• Taneli Puumalainen (GlaxoSmithKline): Role of new vaccines in improving global health (45 min)
• Steven Meshnick (UNC School of Public Health, North Carolina): Molecular surveillance for multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia
• Perpetual Crentsil (University of Helsinki): Women, Condoms and HIV prevention in Ghana
• Valerie Flax (University of Tampere): Intake of lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) during illness and convalescence among moderately underweight Malawian children
• John Phuka (University of Tampere): Preventing of infant stunting with lipid-based nutrient supplements in Malawi
• Yin Bun Cheung (Singapore Clinical Research Institute): Growth in early life and suicidal ideation in young people

11.15 – 12.30 Lunch

12.30 – 14.15 Session II: Human migration and health

• Mike Elmore-Meegan (ICROSS): Randomized control trial to assess the impact of solar disinfection of contaminated drinking water in urban and rural communities with no access to clean water
• Peter Koehn (University of Montana): Transmigration, Transnational Competence, and Global Health (45 min). (Handout) (Reference list)
• Anna Pulakka (University of Tampere): Are infectious diseases of immigrants a threat?
• Fidaim Gashi (University of Tampere): Seeking health care in the home country: reasons given by Kosovar, Russian and Finnish migrants
• Mika Hyrynen (University of Tampere): Travelling at my own risk? – A master’s degree study plan to evaluate travel health related knowledge, attitudes and risk taking

14.14 – 15.00 Coffee break

15.00 – 16.45 Session III: Health systems, globalization and multi-disciplinary health research

• Vinod Diwan (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm): Training of global health researchers at Karolinska Institutet (45 min)
• Anastasiya Rogacheva (National Public Health Institute): Changes in behavioural risk factors among adolescents between 1995 and 2004 in North-West of Russia
• Tafor Princewill (University of Jyväskylä): Strengthening Micro Insurance as a Mechanism for Health Financing in Cameroon
• Crina Samarghitean (University of Tampere): Knowledge bases for primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) in a global health perspective
• Yin Bun Cheung (Singapore Clinical Research Institute): Statistical issues in the analysis of disease episodes in infectious disease clinical trials: A case study of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine trial

16.45 – 17.00 Summary and conclusions

17.30 – 18.15 Opening of a photographic exhibition “Africa Awakes”

18.30 – 24.00 Evening get-together

The second Tampere Symposium on Global Health Research is financially supported by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and GlaxoSmithKline.