Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

The proposed activity will support the 21st International Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis Observational Databases (IWHOD), to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30th March - 1st April, 2017. The objective of this conference is to bring together junior and senior researchers from both developed and developing countries working on cohorts of patients with HIV or hepatitis to present in an informal format their latest findings and work in progress and allow open discussions on common issues of cohort methodology, techniques and statistics. This conference aims at pursuing new findings and facilitating scientific debates of methods, results, and clinical and epidemiological implications of the global HIV epidemic. We are once again aiming to include attendees representing cohort studies from all regions. Papers presented at this workshop are subsequently presented at public conferences and published. Since 2009, more than 90 manuscripts have resulted from work presented and shared at this premier conference. They contribute to treatment guidelines and to our understanding of pathogenesis and, importantly, to the use of appropriate methodology to analyse cohort data. The workshop will be a blend of plenary sessions comprised of six 90 minute sessions made up of approximately 5 abstract presentations, 10 minutes each, with 30 minutes for discussion and debate in each session.