NIH FDA COVID-19 SIG Lecture Series- Professor Wendy Barclay
Dr. Barclay joined Imperial College in May 2007, moving with her research group from the University of Reading where she had previously been based since 1995. She had graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and had undertaken my PhD at the Common Cold Unit, Salisbury under the joint supervision of Dr David Tyrrell and Dr Fred Brown, studying the human immune response to rhinovirus. Dr. Barclay acquired molecular virology skills as a postdoctoral fellow first in the laboratories of Professor Jeff Almond at Reading and then working with Dr Peter Palese at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.Dr. Barcl...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH – FDA COVID SIG Lecture with Malik Peiris
In 2003, Professor Peiris and his research team discovered SARS-CoV, a novel coronavirus, as the etiological agent for SARS. He joined The University of Hong Kong in 1995, and is now Chair of Virology at the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. He co-directs the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory and the WHO SARS-CoV-2 reference laboratory at The University of Hong Kong. Currently, he serves on many Hong Kong and WHO advisory committees, including the WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on COVID-19.
He is a clinical and public health virologis...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Socio-Cultural Responses within India during Times of Pandemic Disease
Focusing on the history of India, Dr. Mathew will explore the complex and underappreciated ways in which Indian folk-beliefs, myth, superstition, related stories (witnessed and fictional) and local traditions, have combined to inform the experience of epidemic and pandemic disease, including in the main, but not limited to, cholera, plague, influenza and COVID-19. Drawing on collections of the NLM and other institutions, he will investigate how these complex belief systems intersect with different kinds of information about these diseases, revealing how every new outbreak is accompanied with information that did not exist ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Narratives of Pandemics Past: Archival Approaches to Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic
The last two years have produced a new fascination with historical epidemic moments. This pandemic of COVID-19 has required us all to become conversant in epidemiology, fields of public health and also histories of medicine. From the 1918/-1920 Influenza pandemic to smallpox and polio eradication campaigns to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, journalists, social scientists and historians have sought historical analogues to our present pandemic moment. Archives have been a critical lens into understanding our current moment. Drawing on material from the U.S. National Library of Medicine as well has his own research on the history of i...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
COVID-19, International Law, and Data Governance
Speaker Alexandra L. Phelan is an Adjunct Professor in Global and Public Health Law and Ethics, Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) candidate and General Sir John Monash Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Professor Phelan ’ s doctoral research examines the global governance of infectious diseases, with a focus on Australian, Chinese and US laws relating to the health and human rights of vulnerable population groups. Professor Phelan ’ s research explores the key legal issues of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases – such as Ebola, Pandemic Influenza, MERS, and Zika Virus – in the face of press...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
COVID 19 Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics: Contrasting South Africa, China and the U.S.
C é cile Viboud is a Staff Scientist based in the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, where she is part of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS). Viboud specializes in the mortality of infectious disease. Viboud was involved with epidemiological analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/sigs/covid-19-scientific-interest-groupAir date: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Research Symposium: Reporting, Recording, and Remembering the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
A public research symposium involving Virginia Tech students studying the history of data in social context through individual and collaborative primary-source research at the National Library of Medicine and elsewhere, and as part of their course Topics in the History of Data in Social Context, being taught by Dr. E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Tech Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Professor.
During the symposium, the students will present their research on various aspects of the 1918 pandemic, including newspaper reporting at the peak of the epidemic (late September to early November 1918), contemporary social ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Research Symposium: Mortality Statistics during the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
A public research symposium involving Virginia Tech students studying the history of data in social context through individual and collaborative primary-source research at the National Library of Medicine and elsewhere. During the symposium, the students will present their research on various aspects of the 1918 pandemic, including newspaper reporting at the peak of the epidemic (late September to early November 1918), contemporary social distancing policies and procedures, and how contemporaries determined that the epidemic was ending, and how they remembered the remarkable experience of this intense, but brief, crisis in...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Demystifying Medicine 2019 - Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Follow the Science/The Next Influenza Pandemic
The Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their applications to major human diseases. The lectures include presentations of patients, pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major diseases and current research. All clinicians, trainees including fellows, medical students, Ph.D. students, and other healthcare and research professionals are welcome to attendFor more information go tohttps://demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.govAir date: 1/8/2019 4:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 2, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Demystifying Medicine 2019 - Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: A Perpetual Challenge/The Next Influenza Pandemic
The Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in
biology and their applications to major human diseases. The lectures include presentations of patients,
pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major diseases and current research. All clinicians, trainees
including fellows, medical students, Ph.D. students, and other healthcare and research professionals are
welcome to attendFor more information go tohttps://demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.govAir date: 1/8/2019 4:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Mother (of all Pandemics) and Her Naughty Children: 100 Years of Behaving Badly
Writing in his diary on September 27, 1918, Charles Corning, former mayor of Concord, New Hampshire, described how flu was blazing through his corner of the world “ as fire shrivels the fields, laying out communities and taking a toll of death unprecedented. ” The next day, he observed, “ A heavy sense of anxiety and apprehension like a dismal cloud in midsummer weighs heavily upon us because of the deadly ravages of the so-called Spanish influenza. Funerals jostle one another so the sable procession goes on. ” That sable procession would eventually claim 167 lives in Concord and at least 50 million more around the...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Evolution of Viral Networks: H1N1, Ebola, and Zika
Author of The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic (Cornell University Press, 2014), Dr. MacPhail will address the culture of public health, the production of scientific knowledge, networks of expertise, information sharing, and everyday experiences of epidemiologists, microbiologists, biomedical scientists, and medical practitioners. Her lecture is the keynote address of Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Digital Humanities and Medical History, which brings together scholars from various fields of medical history whose innovative research shows promise through the use of methods, tools, and dat...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
