Joseph Leiter Memorial Lecture - Emerging Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century

Joseph Leiter Memorial Lecture - Emerging Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century: A Prevention paradigm for surveillance, information sharing, & health diplomacy

Joseph Leiter Memorial Lecture

“Emerging Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century: A Prevention paradigm for surveillance, information sharing, & health diplomacy,” by Jonna Mazet, DVM, PhD, is Principal Investigator for “PREDICT - Wildlife SMART Surveillance for Zoonotic Diseases of Pandemic Potential,” a part of US Agency for International Development. Her specialty is studying diseases that could jump from an animal host population to a human population, such as SARS and Ebola. She will talk about the project and how to disseminate information to relevant agencies and groups to help prevent a pandemic or at least keep it smaller. This event is jointly sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the Medical Library Association.
NLM Title: Emerging infectious diseases in the 21st century : a prevention paradigm for surveillance, information sharing & health diplomacy / Jonna Mazet.
Author: Mazet, Jonna.
National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract: (CIT): Dr. Mazet's specialty is studying diseases that could jump from an animal host population to a human population, such as SARS and Ebola. She will talk about the project and how to disseminate information to relevant agencies and groups to help prevent a pandemic or at least keep it smaller.
Subjects: Communicable Diseases, Emerging--transmission
Disease Reservoirs
Disease Transmission, Infectious--prevention & control
Zoonoses

Air date: Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 1:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local