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Volume 32, Number 1—January 2026

Online Report

Integrating Prevention and Response at the Crossroads of Henipavirus Preparedness, Hendra@30 Conference, 2024

Kim HalpinComments to Author , Raúl Gómez Román, Emmie de Wit, Alison J. Peel, Jonathan H. Epstein, Jennifer Barr, Sarah J. Edwards, Melanie N. Tripp, Berta Blanch-Lázaro, Belinda Linnegar, Gervais Habarugira, Glenn A. Marsh, Danielle Anderson, Li-Yen Chang, and Wanda Markotter
Author affiliation: CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (K. Halpin, J. Barr, S.J. Edwards, M.N. Tripp, B. Blanch-Lázaro, G. Habarugira, G.A. Marsh); Independent Science Consultant, Ensenada, Mexico (R. Gómez Román); University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia (A.J. Peel); One Health Science, New York, New York, USA (J.H. Epstein); Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (M.N. Tripp); Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia (B. Linnegar); Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory, Melbourne (D. Anderson); Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (L.-Y. Chang); University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (W. Markotter)

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Summary of Hendra@30 conference program sessions, 2024*

Day Session No. presentations
1
 Visit to Geelong flying-fox colony
2 Welcome 4
History of Hendra virus 4
Personal stories 2
Disease ecology 8
Rapid oral session talks (accompanying poster presentations)
 16
3 Surveillance 6
Behavioral determinants of henipavirus transmission 3
Diagnostics 4
Virology and immunology 8
Bat infection studies
 3
4 Pathogenesis 7
Vaccines 7
Therapeutics 5
Panel discussion: WHO Nipah Virus Roadmap and the new WHO Paramyxovirus CORC–5 panelists and 2 moderators
5 Tour of CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness

*CORC, Collaborative Open Research Consortium; WHO, World Health Organization.

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