September 26, 2018

Description
Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe.

At this symposium on "Media in the Age of Contagions," journalists who have covered public and global health for print, television, radio, and digital media outlets including NPR, PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, STAT, and more discussed the role of the media when an outbreak occurs, and the dangers of rumors and disinformation.

This event was free and open to the public.

Keyonte Speaker

Michael T. Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP); Regents Professor; McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health; professor, Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering; and adjunct professor, Medical School at the University of Minnesota, and Science Envoy for Health Security, U. S. Department of State

Introductory Speakers

Alan M. Garber, Provost, Harvard University; Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Nicco Mele, Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Ashish K. Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health, Harvard University; Senior Associate Dean for Research Translation and Global Strategy, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and Director, Harvard Global Health Institute

For more information, visit our website at https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/media-in-the-age-of-contagions.