Spring 2007 - Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard International leaders in the war against the world’s most dangerous diseases speak in a series presented by the Knight Chair and the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. Lectures are held at the UGA Chapel at 6:00 p.m.; a reception follows.

January 30, 2007 - Eric Ottesen, MD, Director of the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center at Emory University, explains what is being done to control the parasite that causes disfiguring and debilitating elephantiasis.

February 20, 2007 - Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of the International Partnership for Microbicides, describes her long battle to put HIV/AIDS prevention into the hands of women in developing countries.

March 26, 2007 - Roger Glass, Director of the Fogarty International Center at National Institute of Health.

April 24, 2007 - Dick Thompson, Team Leader, Pandemic and Outbreak Communication Communicable Diseases Section for the World Health Organization tells what it’s like to break bad news to the world about SARS, avian flu, and a host of other killer diseases.

 

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