Closing of the inaugural 2019 Fluids and Health Conference

Dear Colleagues,

The Fluids and Health inaugural 2019 Conference now wrapped up.

The meeting was a great success, full of stimulating discussions at the interface of fluid dynamics and health, great intellectual exchanges, problem solving sessions, new or strengthened collaborations, and an exciting scientific vision for a growing field.

We will be posting summary pictures on this site and twitter in the coming months.

Looking forward to seeing all of you and more at the next Fluids and Health meeting.

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Finally, thank you to all our sponsors and partners for making this fantastic intellectually stimulating event possible!

Yours sincerely,

Prof. L. Bourouiba

Conference Chair 2019

Scope and format

The Fluids and Health 2019 meeting will provide the selected participants an international forum to exchange on frontier research at the intersection of fluid dynamics and health, including topics in infectious diseases, food safety, drug delivery, agricultural and food sciences and policy, where fluids at the core. The event is a hybrid between a conference and school, with in-depth lectures for training on topics at the frontier of the field, combined with flash-talks and poster sessions from participants, and interdisciplinary group work taking place throughout the meeting. More on the meeting here.

Announcement letter

Dear Colleagues,

Given increasing population mobility, the rise of antibiotic resistance, and the expected increase in inequalities and pressures on and from the environment this century, the world will experience increased  susceptibility to infectious diseases and food shortages. Addressing these challenges will require novel, ground-breaking interdisciplinary approaches rooted in rigorous fundamental science. Traditionally separated scientific communities need to work together to tackle these existential challenges to public health.

So far, the mechanistic understanding and fundamentals of pathogen transmission and control have mostly been relegated to a black-box. Yet, pathogens are often transported in fluid phases – air, water, or biological fluids such as blood or mucus. Moreover, medication administration, decontamination technologies and agricultural crop protection also often involve fluids and fluid and nonlinear processes. Yet, fundamental multiphase and fluid dynamics and resulting multiscale mathematical modeling have been absent from the landscape of pathogen transmission and infection control.

We are excited to announce the first International Fluids and Health Conference, to be held in 2019 in the scenic environment of Cargese, in the heart of Corsica and Europe. As a vibrant host Institute, the IESC provides an ideal location for interactions, exchanges, and in-depth discussions of cutting-edge frontier research at the interface of public health policy and the physical, mathematical, and health sciences.You can read more on the frontier research and themes to be covered here.

You can already subscribe to our mailing list for important announcements, and please stay tuned as this site is updated with important dates and information in the weeks to come.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you at Fluids and Health 2019!

Yours sincerely,

Prof. L. Bourouiba

Conference Chair 2019

Scientific Advisory Board

Donald E. Aylor,  Ph.D. Dept. of Plant Pathology and Ecology The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station	Arne Pearlstein, Ph.D. Professor Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Martha L. Gray,  Ph.D. J.W. Kieckhefer Professor MIT EECS,  Research Lab of Electronics Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Howard A. Stone, Ph.D. Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University
James M. Hughes, M.D. Professor of Medicine, infectious Diseases Professor of Public Health, Global Health Co-director, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center Emory University	Mirjam N. Trame, Pharm.D., Ph.D. Associate Director Pharmacometrics, Translational Medicine Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.
William R. Jones, Ph.D. Acting Director, Office of Food Safety US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)	Emmanuel Villermaux, Ph.D. Professor Aix Marseille University Institut Universitaire de France
Jeffrey R. Koseff, Ph.D. William Alden and Martha Campbell Professor in the School of Engineering Founding Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Stanford University	Bruce D Walker, M.D. Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and Harvard University Center for AIDS Research
Pierre Parneix, MD Medical Doctor, Medical University of Bordeaux, Infectious Disease President of SF2H, the French Society of Hospital Hygiene Head of French South West Healthcare Associated Infection Control Centre	Jianhong Wu, Ph.D. University Distinguished Research Professor Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Statistics York University