Inaugural address of the Norman L. Ford Science Literacy Lecture Series by Dr. Michael Osterholm : Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century: A New World Order
7:30 p.m., Sept. 29, 2015Pellegrene Auditorium, Saint John\u27s University
Dr. Michael Osterholm is the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.
He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the Council of Foreign Relations and the National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity. He is an international leader on public health preparedness for infectious diseases and the use of biological agents as weapons targeting civilian populations, and he is the author of more than 325 papers and abstracts, including 21 book chapters.
Dr. Osterholm is widely recognized as a dynamic public speaker with a gift for making science accessible to all.
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