Preventing Epidemics in a Connected World: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University

Preventing Epidemics in a Connected World: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University

September 28, 2018 Preventing Epidemics in a Connected World: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University 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. For more information, visit our website at https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/ev....