After a successful Summer School on Influenza held in 2011, the Molecular Epidemiology Research Division of the University of Siena and the International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Diseases (isirv) invite you to join us in an unforgettable Second Edition of the “Summer School on Influenza”, to boost your knowledge and skills in the diverse field of influenza topics, including virology, vaccinations, and immunology.

Held every 3 years, Options for the Control of Influenza VIII is the largest international scientific conference exclusively devoted to influenza. Options VIII will showcase recent advances in the basic science and control and prevention of influenza. Whatever your domain of expertise-virology, veterinary medicine, human medicine, public health policy, industry or journalism-Options for the Control of Influenza VIII is the premier conference bringing together experts dedicated to all aspects of influenza.

We are delighted to announce that the inaugural conference of the isirv-Antiviral Group (isirv-AVG) will take place in Rio de Janeiro (Copacabana Beach), Brazil from 8th -10th November 2011 and is organised in conjunction with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and PAHO.

The largest and most comprehensive conference exclusively devoted to the study, diagnosis and treatment of influenza went to Hong Kong in 2010.

Challenges for licensure of seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccines.

The International Symposium on Neglected Influenza Viruses explored surveillance data, experimental and observational research data, control strategies and policy, and the economic impact of these viruses of lower mammals that have generally received less surveillance and research efforts. This conference summarized considerable novel influenza data not previously presented at human or avian influenza scientific meetings.

Join your peers and global thought leaders in the quest to foster collaboration on the preferred methodologies, performance characteristics, and outcomes for viral respiratory disease surveillance at the isirv International Symposium on Viral Respiratory Disease Surveillance.