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Microbial Threats and Global Society
Convened by:
Stuart Levy
Director, Center for Adaption Genetics and Drug Resistance, Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Ruth Berkelman
Deputy Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
Topics:
- What will be the definition of a developed country in the next century vis a vis helath and economics?
- How will the world respond to a vancomycin-resistant E. Fiecium enterocci bacteria?
- What would constitute a cost-effective surveillance system and control mechanisms to contend with microbial threats?
Participants:
Christopher Foreman, Jr.
Government Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Author, Plagues, Products, and Politics: Emergent Public Health Hazards and National Policymaking
Laurie Garrett
Author, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance; Health and Science Writer, Newsday
Margaret Hamburg
Commissioner of Health, New York City
Joshua Lederberg
Professor and former President, Rockefeller University, Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Jonathan M. Mann
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, International AIDS Center; Harvard AIDS Institute
Chris Murray
Medical Economist; Harvard Center for Human Population; Adviser, Tubercleosis and AIDS, World Bank
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