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Medical Center Hour with Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

A program of the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Provided by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Nursing
Wednesday, March 6 12:00-1:00 p.m. (EST)

A Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85229005887

The Hayden-Farr Lecture in Virology and Epidemiology

Everything keeps changing! Lessons of COVID-19 for
Pandemic Surveillance

 Marc Lipsitch, DPhil (Speaker)
Professor of Epidemiology
Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Costi D. Sifri, MD, FACP, FIDSA (Moderator)
Becton, Dickinson and Company Endowed Chair of Infectious
Diseases and International Health and Professor of Medicine
UVA School of Medicine

For the first half of this program, Prof. Lipsitch will describe a decision-focused notion of design for surveillance systems that are designed to detect, track, characterize, and tailor treatment or prevention of new pathogens and variants thereof, suggesting the key components of such a system. In the second half, he will describe work using health care databases in the US and Israel that provides examples of some of the potential to perform such surveillance and the accompanying challenges. Handout

 

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