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Vector-borne and water-related disease workshop

May 17, 2018 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/2018-vector-borne-and-water-related-disease-workshop

Vector-borne and water-related disease workshop

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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

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Venue

The Wilson Centre
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