{"id":12,"date":"2015-12-18T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2016-09-02T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:45:30","slug":"program-of-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/program-of-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Learn about the challenges of emerging infections and the importance of ongoing research!<br \/>\n<\/strong>This FREE for the general public session will address the scientific challenge of emerging infectious diseases and explore the challenge of communicating complex information to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_________________________________________________________<br \/>\nINTRODUCTION AND WELCOME | 3:00pm<br \/>\nRobert A. Brown<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident<br \/>\nBoston University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ronald B. Corley, PhD \u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor and Chair of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine<br \/>\nDirector, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories<br \/>\nBoston University<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>_________________________________________________________<br \/>\nKEYNOTE TALKS | 3:15pm<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>From AIDS to Zika: The Enduring Challenge of Emerging Infectious Diseases<\/strong>\u00a0| Anthony Fauci, Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scary Viruses in a Globalized World: Telling the Story<\/strong>\u00a0| David Quammen, author\/essayist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PANEL DISCUSSIONS<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>Trevor Mundel, President, Global Health, Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation<br \/>\nGeorge Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School<br \/>\nLawrence Altman, NY Times<br \/>\nNurith Aizenman, National Public Radio<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Moderator:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University<\/p>\n<p><strong>_________________________________________________________<br \/>\nAUDIENCE Q&amp;A | 5:00 &#8211; 6:00pm<br \/>\n<\/strong>Audience question and answer session with the speakers and panelists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_________________________________________________________<br \/>\nHORS D&#8217;OEUVRES RECEPTION | 6:00 &#8211; 7:30pm.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Join us after the lectures for a hors d&#8217;oeuvres reception.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about the challenges of emerging infections and the importance of ongoing research! This FREE for the general public session will address the scientific challenge of emerging infectious diseases and explore the challenge of communicating complex information to the public. _________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME | 3:00pm Robert A. Brown President Boston University Ronald B. Corley, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7383,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eida2z\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}