Speakers
Session Host and Moderator: Lisa M. Koonin, DrPH, MN, MPH, Deputy Director, Influenza Coordination Unit, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“Pandemic Influenza: Global Health Meets Global Health Security”
Bruce Gellin, MD, MPH, President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine Institute
“The National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness (NCBP)”
Mark Holmes, PhD, Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; Professor, Health Policy and Management, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
“Using Digital Tools and Citizen Science for Pandemic Surveillance, Prevention and Preparedness”
John Brownstein, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
“The Intersection of Pandemics and Biopreparedness”
Greg Evans, PhD, MPH, Professor, Environmental Health, and Dean, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University
“Economic Impact of Pandemics”
Martin Meltzer, PhD, MSc, Lead, Health Economics and Modeling Unit; Distinguished Consultant, Division of Preparedness and Emerging, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
About the Symposium
This interdisciplinary symposium to mark the 100th anniversary of one of the deadliest pandemics in human history took place April 4-6, 2018, at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Symposium events offered perspectives from the vantage points of medicine, health, social sciences and the humanities. Speakers included leading experts in epidemiology, virology, medicine, communications, literature, history, ethics, policy and other fields.
Sponsors included UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Libraries, UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and RTI International.
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