CPH 649 – Special Topics in Epidemiology: Emerging Infectious Disease for Fall 2015
08/28/2015
10am-12noon "Factors for Emergence of Microbial Threats" Ali S. Khan, M.D., MPH (UNMC, Dean of COPH; Rear Admiral-Retired, USPHS and former Assistant U.S. Surgeon General)
09/04/2015
10am-11am "Mathematical Approaches to EIDs" Ozgur Araz, Ph.D. (UNL; previously UNMC, COPH)
11am-12noon "GIS Models and Surveillance for EIDs" Rex Cammack, Ph.D. (UNO, Dept. of Geography/Geology)
09/11/2015
10am-11am "Ecological Effects of Climate Change (as a Driver of Disease Emergence)" Craig Allen, PhD (UNL; U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Unit)
11am-12noon "Global Climate Change and EIDs" David Corbin, Ph.D. (UNO, Emeritus Professor, Health Education and Public Health)
09/18/2015
10am-11am "AIDS: An Emerging Infectious Disease" Danstan Bagenda, Ph.D. (UNMC, COPH)
11am-12noon "Tuberculosis: A Constantly Emerging Disease" Monirul Islam, M.D., Ph.D. (UNMC, COPH)
09/25/2015
10am-11am "Health Care-Associated Infections as an EID" Marvin Bittner, M.D. (Chief of Infectious Disease, Omaha VA Medical Center / Creighton U. Medical School, Internal Medicine)
11am-12noon "Antibiotic Drug Resistance & EIDs" Trevor Van Schooneveld, M.D. (UNMC, COM, Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease; Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program for Nebraska Medicine)
10/02/2015
10am-11am "Laboratory Capacity and EIDs" Peter C. Iwen, Ph.D. (UNMC, Pathology and Microbiology; Nebraska Public Health Lab)
11am-12noon "PulseNet and Genome-based Surveillance" Paul Fey, PhD (UNMC, Pathology and Microbiology)
10/09/2015
10am-12noon "Tabletop Exercise" – Case simulation exercise, prepared and moderated by Sharon Medcalf, Ph.D. (UNMC, COPH, Center for Biosecurity, Biopreparedness, and Emerging Infectious Diseases)
10/23/2015
10am-12noon "Biosurveillance" Louisa E. Chapman, M.D., MSPH (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Senior Medical Officer and Epidemiologist; Captain, USPHS)
10/30/2015
10am-11am "Global Preparedness for Microbial Threats" Rebecca Anderson, JD, MS (UNMC, COPH)
11am-12noon "Field Responses to Microbial Threats" Col. Ted Cieslak, M.D. (UNMC, COPH; formerly U.S. Army (Medical Corps), Fort Sam Houston, TX, and CDC)
11/06/2015
10am-11am "Ebola Virus" Philip Smith, M.D. (UNMC, COM-Internal Medicine/Inf. Disease)
11am-12noon "Emerging Issues in STDs" Melissa Tibbits, Ph.D. (UNMC, COPH)
11/13/2015
10am-11am "Influenza: A Constantly Emerging Infectious Disease" Dr. Khan
11am-12noon "Vector-borne Diseases: Dengue, Chik, & Others" tentatively Tom Safranek, M.D. (State Epidemiologist, Nebraska DHHS, Lincoln)
11/20/2015
10am-11am "Risk Communication for an Emerging Infectious Disease" Taylor Wilson (Nebraska Medicine/UNMC, Public Relations)
11am-12noon "Food-borne Pathogens and Food Safety" John W. Linville, DVM, MPH (UNMC, COPH, Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute; USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Office of Policy and Program Development, Omaha)
12/04/2015
Topic(s) to be determined – possibly a current event in the public health consideration of emerging infections