2026 Pre-Meeting Courses
Two Pre-Meeting Courses will be offered on Wednesday, November 18, 2026 prior to the opening session of the Annual Meeting. Please see registration fees and course descriptions for each course below.
Registration Fees
| On or before Sept 29 | On or after Sept 30 | |
| Members | $300 US | $360 US |
| Nonmembers | $525 US | $600 US |
| Student Members | $150 US | $215 US |
Medical Entomology Pre-Meeting Course: Vectors on the Move: the Changing Landscape of Vector Borne Disease
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Georgetown Capital Campus
Washington, DC
This course is in-person only. It will not be made available livestream or on demand. Transportation will be provided to and from the Gaylord National Harbor and Georgetown Capital Campus.
Course Organizers: Sarah Michaels, PhD, MSPH, Courtney Murdock, PhD and Maria Luísa Simões, PhD
Georgetown University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States, founded on a “Jesuit tradition of Restless Inquiry”. At Georgetown, students are encouraged to learn through experience and connect across disciplines, recognizing that solving complex issues requires multidisciplinary thinking across fields of study.
Working together to integrate multiple lenses, a One Health collaboration brings together physicians, veterinarians, and environmental scientists to communicate and share resources to address zoonotic and vector borne diseases. Addressing the expansion of disease vectors into new regions, shifts in vector abundance, spatial variation across vector range and a greater burden in socioeconomically disadvantaged urban areas requires the integration of experts from human, animal and ecosystem science.
This course is designed for medical professionals, public health practitioners, epidemiologists, researchers, students, and trainees. It will include short talks, hands-on laboratory, and modeling sessions from experts in medical entomology and researchers working in vector borne disease expansion.
Questions? Contact Buffy Finn, Membership, Subgroups and Courses Manager