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The Annual NLM/MLA Joseph Leiter Memorial Lecture will be held this year on Wednesday, 4 May 2016, 11 am MT, 12 pm CT.  In line with the traditional Leiter Lecture theme of fostering biomedical communication, this year’s lecturer is Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD, who will speak on: “Emerging Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century: A Prevention paradigm for surveillance, information sharing, & health diplomacy.” The lecture will be videocast and archived by NIH. Dr. Mazet 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 or minimize pandemic disease from such sources. /ch  
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