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.
Medical Center Hour is free of charge and open to the public.
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