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9:00 Introduction from Co-Chairs, Dorian Janney (NASA/ADNET) and Anne Bowser Ph.D. (Wilson Center)

9:30 Keynote Speaker: Rep. Bill Foster Ph.D., Congressman from Illinois 11th District and member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and House Committee on Financial Services

10:15 Panel on New and Emerging Research

• Antar Julta, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University
• Mike Wimberly, Senior Scientist, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence; and Professor, Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University
• Ben Zaitchik, Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

11:15 Keynote Speaker: Rita Colwell Ph.D., Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, former Director of the National Science Foundation 1998-2004

1:00 Panel on Health, Data, and Complexity

• Bernadette Dunham, Professorial Lecturer, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University; and Helena Chapman, AAAS Fellow, NASA Applied Sciences Program
• Nicole Wayant, Army Corp Geospatial Research Laboratory
• John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, Senior Advisor for Public Health
• Cristina Schneider, Advisor, Human and Animal Interface, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Health Emergency Department

2:00 Panel on Citizen Science and Outreach

• John Palmer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Center Barcelona Spain (CREAF), Global Mosquito Alert partner
• Julia Heslin, GIS consultant, Baltimore Green Map, formerly a Research Consultant at NASA DEVELOP
• Rusty Low, Senior Scientist, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Global Mosquito Alert partner, GLOBE Observer Mosquito Habitat Mapper (MHM)

3:00 Breakout Sessions

4:00 Keynote Presentation: Madeleine Thomson Ph.D., Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Early Warning Systems for Malaria and other Climate Sensitive Diseases & Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society