09:30-10:00	Registration
10:00-10:10	Welcome Bruce Madge, Chair, IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section
10:10-11:20	Setting the scene – local and global challenges Moderator: Bruce Madge
10:10-10:30	Librarians Without Borders: an MLA Global Initiative	Jill Byerly Mayer,et al., Librarians without Borders Task Force, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
10:30-10:50	The Librarian's Role in Disaster Preparedness and Response	Wenju Zhang,Youxiang Zhan, Yanrong Yang, Na Li, Medical Library of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China
10:50-11:10	The Role of Information Specialists in Disaster Situations	Yarda Rodriguez Luis, Guillermo Mesa Ridel, Ada Maria Leyva Acuna, Vivian Maria Cespedes Mora, Latin American Center for Disaster Medicine, Cuba
11:10-11:20	Discussion
11:20-11:40	Break / Refreshments / Coffee
11:40-12:40	Local and global responses Moderator: Kate Oliver
11:40-12:00	The Latin American Network for disaster information: building local capacities in information management for disaster reduction	Stancey Arnesen US National Library of Medicine, USA Isabel Lopez Pan American Health Organization, Costa Rica
12:00-12:20	Learning from SARS and Planning for a Bird-flu Pandemic	A.W. Ferguson, University of Hong Kong Library, Hong Kong
12:20-12:40	Discussion
12:40-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:50	National Strategies Moderator: Heather Todd
14:00-14:20	The Role of Libraries and Information Services in the National Strategies For Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza and Pandemic Situation: the case of Romania	Gheorge Buluta, Crina Mihailescu, Octavia-Luciana Porumbeanu, Central Library of the ”Carol Davida” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
14:20-14:40	The Effect of Avian Influenza on the Information Service of the National Public Health Institute of Finland	Katja Hilska, National Public Health Institute of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
14:40-14:50	Discussion
14:50-15:00	Break / Refreshments / Coffee
15:00-16:20	Looking at Africa Moderator: Päivi Pekkarinen
15:00-15:20	Disasters and Diseases in Africa: Information Support for Animal and Human Health	Tertia Coetsee, Antoinette Lourens, Marguerite Nel and Erica van der Westhuizen, Veterinary Science Library, University of Pretoria, South Africa
15:20-15:40	Providing information support for diseases of animal origin: epidemic and endemic: the role of the ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute Library	David Swanepoel, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa
15:40-16:00	Librarians and the use of Information Communication Technologies in Provision of Information on HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries	Agnes Chikonzo University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
16:00-16:20	The WHO AFRO Library and Partnerships for Delivering Health Information on Emerging Diseases	Pascal Mouhouelo and Marie-Paule Kabore, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo. Comments by Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, Zambia
16:20-16:30	Discussion
16:30-16:45	Closing remarks