Monday, May 5, 2008
12:30pm – 5:00pm
Live Webcast
This symposium was webcast live on May 5.
Webcast url:
http://webapps.sph.harvard.edu/accordentG3/tuberculosis-5-5-08/
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Harvard School of Public Health
Kresge Building, Room G1
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
This symposium will serve as a forum to discuss and explore novel research approaches to the amelioration of tuberculosis (TB) in the developing world. It will also serve to commemorate the career of Barry Bloom, PhD, Dean of the Faculty and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health.
Since 1999, Dean Bloom has led initiatives to keep the School at the frontier of scientific discovery and interdisciplinary innovation and to extend its leadership in improving the health of populations around the world. As part of the Harvard School of Public Health's research and teaching efforts, it is our pleasure to cordially invite you to attend a scientific Symposium to commemorate Dean Bloom's contributions in the development of new vaccine strategies for tuberculosis, a disease that claims more than 2 million lives each year, international health and leadership in public health education. This event will gather experts and colleagues who have worked directly with Dean Bloom to help identify scientific approaches to reduce TB burden in the developing world. We hope you can join us to explore this critical topic and mark this important occasion.
This symposium is open to the public.
Hosted by:
Sarah Fortune, MD, Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
JoAnne Flynn, PhD, Professor, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Eric Rubin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), Harvard Medical School
Dyann Wirth, PhD, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases and Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health
Participants to Include:
John Chan, MD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and of Medicine, Associate Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Sarah Fortune, MD, Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
JoAnne Flynn, PhD, Professor, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Mary K Hondalus, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
Igor Kramnik, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Adrie JC Steyn, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert Modlin, MD, Klein Professor of Dermatology and Professor of Medicine, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles
Scott Snapper, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Megan Murray, MD, MPH, ScD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
John McKinney, PhD, Professor, Head of Laboratory of Bacteriology, Global Health Institute in the School of the Life Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Eric Rubin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), Harvard Medical School
Padminin Salgame, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School
William Jacobs, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sponsored by:
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases,
Harvard School of Public Health
&
Global Infectious Diseases (GID) Program,
Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH)