Save the Date - CDC Grand Rounds Presents “Climate Change and Health – From Science to Practice,” on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, at 1 p.m. (EST).

Save the Date  

  

CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:  

“Climate Change and Health – From Science to Practice”  

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., EST

Global Communications Center (Building 19)

Alexander D. Langmuir Auditorium

Roybal Campus

  

Presented By:  

George Luber, PhD  

Associate Director for Climate Change, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects

National Center for Environmental Health, CDC

“Assessing Changes in Climate and Health” and “Building Resiliency for Climate Change:
Helping Cities and States Respond”

  

Kim Knowlton, DrPH  

Senior Scientist, Health and Environment Program, Natural Resources Defense Council

Assistant Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University

“Climate Change Effects on Health: A Multifaceted Problem”

   

C. Ben Beard, PhD  

Associate Director for Climate Change, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases  

Chief, Bacterial Diseases Branch

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC

“How Climate Influences the Infectious Disease Landscape”

   

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

  

For CDC staff unable to attend the event:  

The session will be available on IPTV and Envision. To join by Envision, reserve a conference room and make the Envision request or use your local room scheduling process to schedule Envision.  

For non-CDC staff or those outside the CDC firewall:  

A live external webcast will be available. Presentations are archived and posted 48 hours after each session. Due to security measures at CDC’s Roybal campus, non-CDC staff who wish to attend these sessions in person must have prior clearance and a U.S. state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, U.S. passport).  

  

Names of non-CDC staff (both domestic and international) should be submitted to the Grand Rounds Team. Please note that all information for international visitors must be submitted at least 10 days in advance.  

  

For questions about this Grand Rounds topic: Feel free to e-mail your questions before or during the session.