Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University

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.

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Agenda

8:30 – 9:00am, Registration

9:00 – 9:15am, Welcome Remarks

9:15 – 10:00am, Keynote Address

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

11:15 – 11:30am, Break

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

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

1:00 – 2:00pm, Lunch Session

2:00 – 2:10pm, Break

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

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

3:50 – 4:00pm Closing Remarks

4:00 – 5:00pm, Reception and Outbreak Exhibition Viewing

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Slide presentations

This session was sponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI); the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University; and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Organized by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), in partnership with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, with support from the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University; the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Common Spaces | the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center at Harvard University; the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture; the Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library of Medicine; the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University; and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.