Climate Change and Global Health Seminar: Joseph Allan
Please join us for an exciting seminar with Professor Allen on “The Nexus of Green Building, Public Health and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.”
Loading view.
Pandemic Preparedness – Improving Science, Technology, & Access Seminar Series: Marc Lipsitch, HSPH
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.”
Climate Change and Global Health Seminar: John Spengler
Please join us for an exciting seminar with Professor Spengler on “New Perspectives on Urban Heat.”
We all recognize that our cities are getting hotter, but is our science informing important stakeholders and decision makers, such as designers, landscape architects, urban planners and public health officials? This presentation will share recent findings on extreme heat, sleep, cognitive function and health in different populations and settings. Also described is a newly developed planning tool that predicts the thermal experience of people can account for natural and building elements to better design public places now and in the future.
Pandemic Preparedness – Improving Science, Technology, & Access Seminar Series: Kendall Hoyt, Dartmouth
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 Global Health Policy at the University of Sussex, a Cybersecurity Fellow at New America, and an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow.
Ready Together: One Day Symposium
Are you ready for the next infectious disease outbreak?
What are the financial, medical, and other risks in low- and middle-income countries associated with major disease outbreaks? What is being done to ensure resilience during public health emergencies? What innovations are contributing to public safety and population health during emergencies?
Join us for a one day symposium to discuss all of this and more!
One Health Day
One Health Day is an international campaign co-coordinated by the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team and the One Health Platform Foundation. The goal of One Health Day is to bring attention around the world to the need for One Health interactions and for the world to ‘see them in action’. The One Health Day campaign is designed to engage as many individuals as possible from as many arenas as possible in One Health education and awareness events, and to generate an inspiring array of projects worldwide.
