Preventing the Next Pandemic

Preventing the Next Pandemic

The globalized world of the new millennium has become highly vulnerable to epidemics of infectious diseases. It is a vulnerability that has been underscored by several recent pandemics, including Covid-19. Driven by global demographic and societal trends, these events have become more frequent, larger, and - depending on the pathogen - more deadly.

Unfortunately, the 'out of sight, out of mind' mentality often results in lessons being forgotten during interepidemic periods. Epidemics will continue to wreak havoc on human and economic health unless we develop more effective and sustainable early warning surveillance, prevention and control programs. Join Dr. Duane Gubler as he shares lessons learned and suggestions for mitigating the impact of future pandemics.
 

Dr Duane J Gubler, ScD, FAAAS, FIDSA, FASTMH, is Emeritus Professor and founding director, Signature Research Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He is Adjunct Professor in his alma mater, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Global Health Institute. He has spent his entire career working on tropical infectious diseases with an emphasis on dengue, Aedes-transmitted and other vector-borne diseases. He worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 25 years and has extensive field experience in Asia, the Pacific, tropical America and Africa, and has published extensively on all aspects of dengue and other vector-borne infectious diseases, with over 350 publications and 2 books to his credit. Prof Gubler is a Fellow, Infectious Disease Society of America, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow and Past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.