Epidemiology and Virology of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Описание: Speakers
Session Host and Moderator: Ralph Baric, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine; UNC-Chapel Hill

“Unraveling Influenza Virus Pathogenic Mechanisms; from the Early Flu Hunters to Today”
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD, Director, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute; Professor, Microbiology; Fishberg Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“Developing Better Vaccines: Right Around the Corner?”
Barney S. Graham, MD, PhD, Deputy Director, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

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.

https://sph.unc.edu/nciph/1918-flu-sy...