CNN Expert Visits, Presents on Emerging Infectious Diseases
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s (TTUHSC) Global Health Lecture Series continued as Dr. Seema Yasmin, an infectious disease expert often featured by CNN, was featured on Friday, October 31 at the ACB where she spoke on emerging infectious diseases and the potential threat they pose. The presentation was co-sponsored by the Center for Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases and the Office of Global Health. The ongoing lecture series highlights issues related to global health and building healthy communities.
Doctor Yasmin is a staff writer at the Dallas Morning News, a professor of public health at the University of Texas at Dallas and served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Center for Disease Control. She has investigated epidemics in maximum-security prisons, American Indian reservations, and healthcare facilities. She trained medicine at the University of Cambridge in England and in Journalism at the University of Toronto.
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