Dr. Agiesh Kumar Balakrishna Pillai is currently working as Senior Principal Scientist, Department of Clinical Virology, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thonnakkal, Trivandrum He completed his Masters Degree in Biotechnology from Pondicherry Central University. He later obtained PhD in Biotechnology and Microbiology from Vector Control Research Centre, a WHO collaborating ICMR Permanent Centres. Dr. Kumar had his first postdoctoral training in the areas of molecular parasitology from Texas Tech University and the second postdoc from Department of Cellular Biology at the University of Georgia in the areas of RNA interference and ISH. He started his career as an Assistant professor at SASTRA University, TamilNadu and has about eleven years of teaching and research experience. He has published several papers in virology and has served as a reviewer in high impact international peer reviewed journals. His current research focus includes dengue and arboviral pathogenesis, biomarkers for infectious diseases, and developing prognostic devices. Sunil V Manjila is Staff Neurosurgeon at McLaren Bay Region Hospital, Bay City, MI, USA. Dr. S.R. Rao is currently Vice President of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth a health care university in Pondicherry.During his service in the Government of India for 30 years, he had gained knowledge and experience in dealing with R&D promotion in agricultural medical and animal biotechnology. Dr. Rao is founder and editorial board member of the Asian Biotechnology Development Review (ABDR) and co-founder and convener of The Global Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness & Response (APAR) advancing Global Health Security through South-South & North-South Collaboration (www.aparweb.org) He has published 55 research papers in national/international Journals including four strategic reviews in high impact journals on preparedness and Covid 19 pandemic and published two books on animal vaccines and diagnostics and biotechnology. He has visited more than 80 countries on scientific and official matters and made more than 100 scientific and technical presentations in cutting edge areas of the biological sciences. Dr. Rao has spent the majority of his 30 year career working for the Government of India. He joined the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology Government of India in 1989 and progressed to become Senior Advisor to Government of India.

• 1. General Introduction and Foreward2. VHF: diversity of Viruses and animal vectors involved in disease transmission3. Emerging and Re-emerging Hemorrhagic Fever Causing Viruses in Recent Years4. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever: Clinical symptoms and syndromes5. Advances in the laboratory diagnostics6. Critical Care Management7. Neurological manifestation and Neuro-pathogenesis in VHF8. Molecular markers for the early prediction of disease outcome9. Animal models10. Applications of Omics in the disease pathogenesis11. Molecular pathogenesis – Part A12. Molecular pathogenesis – Part B13. Current antivirals and Future directions in drug management14. Vaccine for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever - Updates and Challenges15. Potential Risk as Bioweapon16. Outbreaks, Pandemic Preparedness and Public health management

Dr. Agiesh Kumar Balakrishna Pillai is currently working as Senior Principal Scientist, Department of Clinical Virology, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thonnakkal, Trivandrum He completed his Masters Degree in Biotechnology from Pondicherry Central University. He later obtained PhD in Biotechnology and Microbiology from Vector Control Research Centre, a WHO collaborating ICMR Permanent Centres. Dr. Kumar had his first postdoctoral training in the areas of molecular parasitology from Texas Tech University and the second postdoc from Department of Cellular Biology at the University of Georgia in the areas of RNA interference and ISH. He started his career as an Assistant professor at SASTRA University, TamilNadu and has about eleven years of teaching and research experience. He has published several papers in virology and has served as a reviewer in high impact international peer reviewed journals. His current research focus includes dengue and arboviral pathogenesis, biomarkers for infectious diseases, and developing prognostic devices. Sunil V Manjila is Staff Neurosurgeon at McLaren Bay Region Hospital, Bay City, MI, USA. Dr. S.R. Rao is currently Vice President of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth a health care university in Pondicherry.During his service in the Government of India for 30 years, he had gained knowledge and experience in dealing with R&D promotion in agricultural medical and animal biotechnology. Dr. Rao is founder and editorial board member of the Asian Biotechnology Development Review (ABDR) and co-founder and convener of The Global Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness & Response (APAR) advancing Global Health Security through South-South & North-South Collaboration (www.aparweb.org) He has published 55 research papers in national/international Journals including four strategic reviews in high impact journals on preparedness and Covid 19 pandemic and published two books on animal vaccines and diagnostics and biotechnology. He has visited more than 80 countries on scientific and official matters and made more than 100 scientific and technical presentations in cutting edge areas of the biological sciences. Dr. Rao has spent the majority of his 30 year career working for the Government of India. He joined the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology Government of India in 1989 and progressed to become Senior Advisor to Government of India.

• 1. General Introduction and Foreward2. VHF: diversity of Viruses and animal vectors involved in disease transmission3. Emerging and Re-emerging Hemorrhagic Fever Causing Viruses in Recent Years4. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever: Clinical symptoms and syndromes5. Advances in the laboratory diagnostics6. Critical Care Management7. Neurological manifestation and Neuro-pathogenesis in VHF8. Molecular markers for the early prediction of disease outcome9. Animal models10. Applications of Omics in the disease pathogenesis11. Molecular pathogenesis – Part A12. Molecular pathogenesis – Part B13. Current antivirals and Future directions in drug management14. Vaccine for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever - Updates and Challenges15. Potential Risk as Bioweapon16. Outbreaks, Pandemic Preparedness and Public health management

Dr. Agiesh Kumar Balakrishna Pillai is currently working as Senior Principal Scientist, Department of Clinical Virology, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thonnakkal, Trivandrum He completed his Masters Degree in Biotechnology from Pondicherry Central University. He later obtained PhD in Biotechnology and Microbiology from Vector Control Research Centre, a WHO collaborating ICMR Permanent Centres. Dr. Kumar had his first postdoctoral training in the areas of molecular parasitology from Texas Tech University and the second postdoc from Department of Cellular Biology at the University of Georgia in the areas of RNA interference and ISH. He started his career as an Assistant professor at SASTRA University, TamilNadu and has about eleven years of teaching and research experience. He has published several papers in virology and has served as a reviewer in high impact international peer reviewed journals. His current research focus includes dengue and arboviral pathogenesis, biomarkers for infectious diseases, and developing prognostic devices. Sunil V Manjila is Staff Neurosurgeon at McLaren Bay Region Hospital, Bay City, MI, USA. Dr. S.R. Rao is currently Vice President of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth a health care university in Pondicherry.During his service in the Government of India for 30 years, he had gained knowledge and experience in dealing with R&D promotion in agricultural medical and animal biotechnology. Dr. Rao is founder and editorial board member of the Asian Biotechnology Development Review (ABDR) and co-founder and convener of The Global Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness & Response (APAR) advancing Global Health Security through South-South & North-South Collaboration (www.aparweb.org) He has published 55 research papers in national/international Journals including four strategic reviews in high impact journals on preparedness and Covid 19 pandemic and published two books on animal vaccines and diagnostics and biotechnology. He has visited more than 80 countries on scientific and official matters and made more than 100 scientific and technical presentations in cutting edge areas of the biological sciences. Dr. Rao has spent the majority of his 30 year career working for the Government of India. He joined the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology Government of India in 1989 and progressed to become Senior Advisor to Government of India.

• 1. General Introduction and Foreward2. VHF: diversity of Viruses and animal vectors involved in disease transmission3. Emerging and Re-emerging Hemorrhagic Fever Causing Viruses in Recent Years4. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever: Clinical symptoms and syndromes5. Advances in the laboratory diagnostics6. Critical Care Management7. Neurological manifestation and Neuro-pathogenesis in VHF8. Molecular markers for the early prediction of disease outcome9. Animal models10. Applications of Omics in the disease pathogenesis11. Molecular pathogenesis – Part A12. Molecular pathogenesis – Part B13. Current antivirals and Future directions in drug management14. Vaccine for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever - Updates and Challenges15. Potential Risk as Bioweapon16. Outbreaks, Pandemic Preparedness and Public health management