Preventing Epidemics in a Connected World: Part of Outbreak

September 28, 2018, 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Watch Videos

Description

Led by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe.

As the capstone of Outbreak Week, this full-day conference featured a keynote address by Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and a special session with Ron Klain, the Ebola response coordinator for the Obama Administration. Panel sessions featured experts from government, academia, research, and industry discussing mitigating risks, disease surveillance, and public-private partnerships.

This event was free and open to the public.

Other Outbreak Week events at Harvard Law School

Wednesday, September 26: Media in the Age of Contagions
Thursday, September 27: Vaccines for Outbreaks in the Modern World

And check out other Outbreak Week events across Harvard University here!

Agenda

8:30 - 9:00am, Registration

9:00 - 9:15am, Welcome Remarks

Ashish K. Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health, Harvard University; Senior Associate Dean for Research Translation and Global Strategy, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and Director, Harvard Global Health Institute
Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School

9:15 - 10:00am, Keynote Address

Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

10:00 - 11:15am, Panel 1: Understanding and Mitigating Risks

Recorded Remarks by Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot Professor, Harvard University
Michael T. Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP); Regents Professor; McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health; professor, Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering; and adjunct professor, Medical School at the University of Minnesota, and Science Envoy for Health Security, U. S. Department of State
Dennis Carroll, Director, Global Health and Security Unit, U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Hillary H. Carter, Director for Countering Biological Threats, National Security Council
Mosoka P. Fallah, Deputy Director General for Technical Services, National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL)
Moderator: Ashish K. Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health, Harvard University; Senior Associate Dean for Research Translation and Global Strategy, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and Director, Harvard Global Health Institute

11:15 - 11:30am, Break

11:30am - 12:45pm, Panel 2: Disease Surveillance: Conventional and Emerging Approaches

Nancy Messonnier, Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Jonathan Epstein, Vice President for Science and Outreach, EcoHealth Alliance
Satchit Balsari, Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; faculty, emergency medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Caroline Buckee, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Assistant Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD), Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderator: Lawrence C. Madoff, Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Editor, ProMed-Mail; Director, Division of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

12:45 - 1:00pm, Break to Pick Up Lunch

1:00 - 2:00pm, Lunch Session

Ron Klain, Ebola response coordinator, Obama Administration

2:00 - 2:10pm, Break

2:10 - 3:30pm, Panel 3: Working Together: Public-Private Partnerships

Michael Ryan, Assistant Director General, Emergency Preparedness and Response Programme, WHO
Margaret Farley, Executive Vice President, Global Crisis and Risk, Edelman
Tobias Meier, Key Account Manager and Vice President of Global Partnerships, Swiss Re
Gerard Meuchner, Chief Global Communications Officer, Henry Schein
Moderator: Ryan Morhard, Project Lead, Global Health and Healthcare Industries, World Economic Forum Geneva

3:30 - 3:50pm, History of the Smithsonian Institute 2018 Exhibit Outbreak

Sabrina Sholts, research anthropologist and curator, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and Curator of the Outbreak Exhibit

3:50 - 4:00pm Closing Remarks

Ashish K. Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health, Harvard University; Senior Associate Dean for Research Translation and Global Strategy, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and Director, Harvard Global Health Institute
Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School