Keystone Symposia ePanel: Free ePanel Climate Change & Infectious Disease Threats
Join us on December 14 for a Free ePanel on Climate Change & Infectious Disease Threats to explore how changing temperatures and precipitation patterns are impacting the prevalence of vector-borne and zoonotic infectious diseases around the world.
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2022.
Time: 12PM EST | 4:00PM UTC
We will discuss how climate changes is altering the emergence and distribution of various diseases, from Malaria, to Dengue Virus, Lyme Disease and coronaviruses, as animal vectors expand their ranges and migrate to new regions.
Speakers:
- Madeleine Thomson (Wellcome Trust, Visiting Professor, Lancaster University, UK)
- Adugna Woyesse (Ethiopian Public Health Institute – EPHI, Ethiopia)
- Micah Hahn (University of Alaska-Anchorage and Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, USA)
- Colin Carlson (Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University, USA)
- Avriel Diaz (Columbia University International Research Institute for Climate and Society, USA)
Find out:
- How different geographic regions are impacted, from Africa to Alaska to the Caribbean
- What can be done to better prepare medical and public health systems for these new threats
- How to develop and implement surveillance and early warning systems
… and much more!
If you’d like to attend, please register at this link.
Read more here.
