Zika Virus: A Pandemic in Progress
Dr. Fauci will discuss the history of Zika virus, the current pandemic, and the biomedical research response, including diagnostic, therapeutics and vaccine development.Air date: 3/18/2016 11:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Using Data to Save More Lives and Drive Progress Towards the Control of the HIV Epidemic
Ambassador-at-Large Dr. Deborah L. Birx, a renowned HIV/AIDS expert, will deliver the 2015 Joseph J. Kinyoun Memorial Lecture. She will discuss how data are being leveraged to save lives and drive progress toward sustained control of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Birx is the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy. She oversees implementation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest commitment to combat a single disease by any nation in history.
PEPFAR collects and analyzes data to understand health care service cost, quality and ach...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 13, 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
Envisioning The End of AIDS: Challenges and Prospects
LaMontagne Lecture
Considerable progress has been made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, but a sustained, comprehensive approach is needed to end to the pandemic, according to Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim, a leading South African clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist and HIV prevention and treatment researcher. Abdool Karim will discuss how the global community is positioned to strengthen and reinvigorate the AIDS response during the 2014 John Ring LaMontagne Memorial Lecture titled, “Envisioning ‘The End of AIDS’: Challenges and Prospects.”
Abdool Karim is president of the South African Medical Resear...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 12, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
