Emerging Infectious Diseases: How Worried Should We Be?
WHAT: The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s (TTUHSC) Global Health Lecture Series will feature Seema Yasmin, M.D. an epidemiologist and professor of public health at the University of Texas at Dallas, and a journalist at the Dallas Morning News, presenting, “Emerging Infectious Diseases: How Worried should We Be?”
WHEN: Noon Friday (Oct. 31)
WHERE: TTUHSC Academic Classroom Building, 3601 4th St., Room 150
EVENT: With an unprecedented increase in the rate of emerging infectious diseases, including Ebola, these diseases have the potential to cause pandemics in humans and animals. As many as 70 percent are zoonotic and can be transmitted to humans through animals. As the capacity to detect and fight outbreaks increases, will we keep up with the emergence of new infections?
Yasmin served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has investigated epidemics in maximum-security prisons, American Indian reservations and health care facilities. She trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge in England and journalism at the University of Toronto.
This presentation is 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. Free lunch will be provided.
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