The New Era of Epidemics: Surveillance Response Impacts and Challenges

Date: 

Thursday, October 26, 2017, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Bray Room, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue, Louis Pasteur, Boston

Speakers: Marcia Castro, Associate Professor of Demography, Department of Population and Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Celina M. Turchi, Researcher, Fundaçāo; Olswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) C. ; Jessica Metcalf, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Anne Rimoi, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles; Pardis Sabeti, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health

Moderator: Marc Lipsitch DPhil Professor of Epidemiology Departments of Epidemiology and Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Director Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

In the new era of epidemics emergent infectious disease challenges are often superimposed on a background of other public health problems and scarce health care services. A panel of global health experts will explore lessons learned from recent infectious disease outbreaks and discuss ways to prepare for the next public health crisis.

This event is part of Worldwide Week at Harvard which celebrates and showcases Harvard’s global presence and educational opportunities that extend beyond the Cambridge and Boston campuses.

Presented in collaboration with Harvard's Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe Initiative as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard - https://worldwide.harvard.edu/worldwide-week#thursday-26th

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