LIVE STREAM available! Emerging Infectious Diseases from A to Z: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
This message is from NEIDL Director Ron Corley and NEIDL Associate Director Jerry Keusch.
A major scientific event is about to begin at BU when the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) hosts its inaugural symposium on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the George Sherman Union on the Charles River Campus. The conference will address the scientific challenges that emerging infections pose and how to improve the communication of evidence-based information to the general public. The speakers are outstanding internationally known leaders, including Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the acclaimed science writer David Quammen. A panel discussion and Q&A session will follow their presentations. This free program is geared toward the general public as well as the science community. A reception will follow. For more information and to register, go to www.bu.edu/eida2z/.
Please share this with your students and colleagues – all are welcome to join us on Sunday.
On Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 19 and 20, the symposium continues with four major sessions that will assess the state of knowledge and identify the critical gaps that limit progress, including:
· To Discover (how to find and identify new agents, where they hide, and how they are transmitted to humans);
· To Understand (how do they cause infection and disease, who is susceptible, how do we combat them);
· To Protect (how can we identify new drugs, vaccine candidates and sensitive and specific diagnostic tests); and
· To Collaborate (how do we work as a global scientific community to learn and act together, and what are the major obstacles and opportunities to do better).
The program and speakers are listed here. These sessions will be live-streamed to the BU community; to join go to http://www.bu.edu/eida2z/livestream/ and login using your BU ID and Kerberos password.
