The Forum's program was exceptionally rich, featuring over 30 scientific sessions including plenary and sectional meetings, symposia, round tables, educational lectures, and schools. In total, more than 90 reports were delivered by leading specialists. A meeting of the Expert Commission on Infectious Diseases of the Russian Ministry of Health was also held.
Forum participants were welcomed at the opening ceremony by Inna Kulikova, Director of the Department of Emergency Medical Care and Health Risk Management of the Russian Ministry of Health; Vadim Tarasov, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Technological Development of Sechenov University; Beatrice Volel, Director of the Sklifosovsky Institute of Clinical Medicine at Sechenov University; and Vladimir Chulanov, Chief Infectious Diseases Specialist of the Russian Ministry of Health.
The Plenary Sessions of the 4th International Infectious Diseases Forum featured reports on current challenges and achievements in healthcare related to infectious diseases.
- Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis
Researcher in Virology Department of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Narina Sargsyants
WHO National Coordinator for Viral Hepatitis and COVID-19 Management; President of the Armenian Association of Infectious Diseases; PhD (Medicine), Yerevan, Republic of Armenia - Igor Stoma
Rector and Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Gomel State Medical University; MD, Gomel, Belarus - Ajeet Singh Bhadoria
Additional Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh, Rishikesh, India - Erkin Rakhmanov
Head of the Scientific and Practical Center for Viral Infection Control, National Institute of Public Health, Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic; MD, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic - Dmitry Danilov
Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Belarusian State Medical University; MD, Minsk, Belarus - Igor Karpov
Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Belarusian State Medical University; Chief Infectious Diseases Specialist of the Republic of Belarus; Professor, MD, Minsk, Belarus - Zuridin Nurmatov
Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Avicenna Tajik State Medical University; Professor, MD, Dushanbe, Tajikistan - Muhammad Radzi bin Abu Hassan
Senior consultant physician and gastroenterologist of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Mohamed Hassany
Assistant Minister of Health for Projects and Public Health Initiatives, Chief Executive Director, National Committee for Control of Viral Hepatitis (NCCVH), Ministry of Health of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt - Meerimbek Omoraliyev
Head of the Viral Hepatitis Department, Republican Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic - Gulmira Suranbaeva
Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, I.K. Akhunbaev Kyrgyz State Medical Academy; MD, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic - Sérgio Luiz Bessa Luz
Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Infectious Disease Ecology in the Amazon, Leonidas & Maria Deane Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Manaus, Brazil - Felipe Naveca
Director for Research and Innovation, Head of the Laboratory of Arboviruses and Hemorrhagic Viruses, Leonidas & Maria Deane Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Neluka Fernando
Senior Professor of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Colombo, Sri Lanka - Elizabeth Ristanovic
Head of the Department of Microbial Genetics and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Military Medical Academy; Professor, University of Defence, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia - Sher Bahadur Pun
Head of the Department of Clinical Research, Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal