This conference regularly attracts over 500 scientists, with representatives from many of the major research groups in this area worldwide. If you want to meet many of your peers in this field, this is the place to go.

Clearly, research on SARS-CoV-2 will continue to play a major role at the meeting. The following is a list of potential session topics, as usual open to all infectious diseases of humans and animals.

• Within-host dynamics and immuno-epidemiology

• Evolution and phylodynamics in infectious diseases

• Ecology, Climate and infectious diseases

• Machine learning, AI and infectious diseases

• Integration of new data streams in infectious disease surveillance and transmission models, including wastewater and genomic sequences

• Dynamics and consequences of antimicrobial resistance

• Policy, economic aspects, and decision support for control and prevention

• Statistical approaches for infectious diseases (including calibration approaches for complex mechanistic models, methods for large-scale genomic analyses)

• Social, spatial, behavioural and network aspects of interaction

• Problems related to the “end game” of eradication

• Zoonoses and other cross-species events

• Multi-host and multi-pathogen/parasite systems

• Forecasting and scenario projections

• Problems in vaccine-preventable infections & vaccination strategy

• Problems in neglected tropical macroparasitic diseases