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February 09, 2016 |
Time:
4:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Location: 113A Lowder Building
In recent years, reports of MERS, Aids, Ebola, and influenza outbreaks have appeared in news media with distressing regularity. They are responsible for many deaths and considerable social disruption. All are communicable diseases
once transmitted to humans from animals and insects. They are termed ‘zoonotic disease’, and public health officials have devoted enormous resources to combatting them because of the dangers they pose to human wellbeing. Dr. Beth P. Bell has long been at the
center of these efforts. Dr. Bell has a most distinguished career in public health. She has been employed by the Centers for Communicable Diseases since 1992. In 2010, she was appointed director of the National Center of Infectious and Zoonotic Emerging Diseases,
part of the Centers for Communicable Disease in Atlanta. She has an MD from Yale University and a Masters of Public Health from Brown University. She is author or coauthor of 125 scientific publications and has received many awards for her work. These include
the Alexander Langmuir Prize and the Iain Hardy Award. This event is free and open to the public.
Name of Sponsor Organization: Littleton-Franklin Committee and the York Distinguished Lectures Contact Person: Gerard Elfstrom and Megan Ross Contact Email Address: elfstga@auburn.edu and mhr0001@auburn.edu Contact Phone Number: (334) 844-3785 |