Throughout time, mankind's ingenuity has been breathtaking: We've discovered fire... Invented the wheel... Created the world wide web. Yet for centuries one tiny microorganism has...
♪ music ♪ >>Narrator: Chronic diseases are universal. They impact entire communities and nations, and they cost millions of dollars in lost productivity and care. Populations in...
[Applause] interesting background I mean MD, PhD, your academic positions at UCSF, Stanford, Harvard and then went to become an entrepreneur. Tell me a little bit about why you made that transition...

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[Convening Community Through Stories] So, entrepreneurialism, engagement and empathy those are the three Es that we've settled upon to really summarize what's going on with this event...
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Our next speaker is Janet Lin, who is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and has an affiliate appointment in the Division of Community Health Sciences in the School of...
Jean-Franceois is a personal experience that affected me a great deal. And this occurred during the epidemic of meningitis in 2007 in Burkina Faso. At that time I was in Ouagadougou at the Yalgado...
Hi everyone, my name is Michael Perdue. I'm the Director of the Influenza and Emerging Diseases, Division of BARDA and on behalf of the organizing committee and the co-chairs, I'm very...
They had a solicitation at the end of last year and it was on the treatment of human and animal waste, trying to disinfect those, with a whole list of complicating criteria of arid environments where...

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With today's mobile technology the world is more interconnected than ever with information moving at unprecedented speed. The same can be said for health. Not only are chronic diseases and...

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