Ebola: A Personal Perspective on a Global Issue
HHS Secretary’s Global Health and Human Services Lecture Series
Please join Secretary Burwell in welcoming Dr. Kent Brantly for the Secretary’s Global Health and Human Services Lecture Series. Dr. Kent Brantly is a Family Medicine physician who served as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. In the spring of 2014, Dr. Brantly found himself fighting on the front lines of the battle against the deadliest Ebola outbreak to ever occur.
In early July, Samaritan’s Purse, the organization for which Dr. Brantly worked, took over responsibility for the clinical care of Ebola patients for the entire ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 9, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Covering the Disease of the Century: A Journalist's Personal Perspective on AIDS, 1981-2015
Physician and journalist Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., will deliver this year’s James C. Hill Memorial Lecture, “Covering the Disease of the Century: A Journalist’s Personal Perspective on AIDS, 1981–2015.” Dr. Altman will discuss his decades of reporting on HIV/AIDS, beginning with the 1981 appearance of the first U.S. cases of illness caused by the then-unknown virus.
Dr. Altman is a medical writer for The New York Times, where from 1969 to 2008 he was one of the few physicians employed full time for a daily newspaper. He continues to report on a variety of medical topics for the Times. Dr. Altman also writes “T...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 17, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Ebola Virus Infection
Dr. Bausch, a Filovirus expert with extensive field
experience in previous Ebola and Marburg outbreaks, has been intimately involved in control efforts for the WHO in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Dr. Bausch is the coordinator of their efforts supporting therapeutics, vaccines and clinical research studies of Ebola in the current outbreak.Air date: 9/19/2014 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 18, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Genetic Basis of Protozoan Pathogan Emergence and Disease
NIH Director's Seminar
Dr. Grigg’s research program investigates the emergence and pathogenesis of prevalent zoonoses that infect a broad spectrum of animal and human hosts. His group is particularly focused on the protozoan parasites Toxoplasma, Leishmania, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium. He performs population and molecular genetic analyses, using both forward and reverse genetics, to identify virulence genes that control pathogenesis and perturb immune system homeostasis in animal models of natural infection. Recent work is exploring the extent to which protozoan parasites utilize their sexual cycles to rapidly produce...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 4, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Public Health in the 21st Century: Too Big to Fail? (HHS Only)
Introduction by:
The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Presentation by:
Dr. Margaret Chan
Director-General
World Health Organization
Just since the start of this century, health challenges have become far more complex, and political leaders and the public are paying attention. Director-General Chan will discuss current trends in global health—including climate change, antimicrobial resistance, non-communicable diseases, global health security and universal health coverage, among others—and provide insight into the fruitful collaboration between the Worl...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 17, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
MIDAS Symposium
Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) is a collaboration of research and informatics groups to develop computational models of the interactions between infectious agents and their hosts, disease spread, prediction systems, and response strategies. The models will be useful to policymakers, public health workers, and other researchers who want to better understand and respond to emerging infectious diseases. If a disease outbreak occurs, the MIDAS network may be called upon to develop specific models to aid public officials in their decision-making processes. Air date: 9/23/2013 8:45:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 11, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
