Session 1

• WHO classification and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus: Historical Overview – Peter H. Bennett
• Basics of descriptive epidemiology – Nita Forouhi

Session 2

• An overview of the global burden of diabetes: prevalence, costs, temporal trends, and prevention – William H. Herman
• Temporal/geographic trends in type 1 diabetes – Jakko Tuomilehto
• Burden and trends in pediatric type 2 diabetes – Dana Dabelea

Session 3

Participant presentations

• The prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in Kuwait – Abdullah Alkandari
• Risk of hospitalization among elderly with diabetes mellitus receiving home care in Norway 2009 – 2014 – Anne-Siri Fismen
• Diabetes epidemiology in the big data era: surveillance based on health administrative databases – Sonsoles Fuentes
• Diabetes and infections: an increasing double burden – Jessica Harding
• DiaFlu: Influenza, immunization and diabetes – Paz Lopez-Doriga Ruiz
• Prediabetes and undiagnosed diabetes prevalence in a French nationwide study: ESTEBAN – Clara Piffaretti

Session 4

Hot topics debate

• This HbA1c believes that glycated haemoglobin should be used to diagnose diabetes ? For the motion – Chair, Pablo Aschner
• For the motion – Nick Wareham
• Against the motion – William H. Herman