Events

Seqirus is the 2nd largest influenza vaccine company in the world with a rich heritage in influenza dating back to the Spanish flu pandemic (through its parent company CSL). With manufacturing plants in the US, UK, Germany and Australia, it is a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness and a major contributor to the prevention and control of influenza globally. Seqirus recently announced innovations in cell-based influenza vaccine development at commercial scale using a candidate vaccine virus (CVV) that has been isolated and…

Col. Hepburn is Program Manager of the Biological Technologies office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for making investments in emerging technologies for national security. The Biological Technologies Office (BTO) focuses on leveraging advances in engineering and information sciences to develop biotechnology for technological advantage. BTO also has a mandate to address pandemic preparedness. He will be delivering a talk regarding "DARPA's Role in Pandemic Preparedness."

Kendall Hoyt is an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and a lecturer at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College where she teaches courses on technology and biosecurity. She serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Department of Defense’s Programs to Counter Biological Threats and on the advisory board of the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. For the 2015-16 academic year, she is a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for…

Marc Lipsitch (DPhil) is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and also the director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. He will be presenting "Preparing to test vaccines in infectious disease emergencies: Science, Ethics and Policy."

Please join us to hear Dr. Donald Goldmann (MD) present "The Slow Death of the Antibiotic Commons." Dr. Goldmann is the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and also a Professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Join us for a discussion with Laura Spinney, a science journalist and author of Pale Rider, moderated by Jonathan Quick, author of The End of Epidemics about the inevitability of epidemics, our propensity to forgot them once they have passed, and our attitude to pandemic preparedness looking to the future - with the Spanish flu as a key example. Laura Spinney is an author and science journalist. Jonathan Quick is Senior Fellow Emeritus at MSH, where he previously served as…

Please join us in celebrating the launch of the Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World exhibition at the Nehru Science Centre in Mumbai.  Featured speakers include: Dean Michelle Williams, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy Schoo Dr. Ashish K. Jha, Dean for Global Strategy & K.T. Li Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…