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The Future of Health: Presentations from ISB’s 17th Annual International Symposium

At our 17th Annual International Symposium, focusing on the Future of Health, we welcomed speakers who are experts in diverse areas including environmental and occupational health, infectious disease transmission and forecast, drug and vaccine development, communicable disease dynamics, and beyond.

Our presenters spoke during three sessions:

  • Population health, which focused on global health informatics and how big data can be used to understand the health of middle- and low-income populations; metabolic disease and the epidemiology of obesity; and the impact of personalized medicine on population health
  • Early warning systems, which explored dynamic, data-driven modeling; environmental determinants of infectious disease transmission and modeling effects of climate change and environment on pathogen dynamics; and the tipping points for the emergence – and re-emergence – of infectious diseases
  • and Prevention and Therapy, which tackled research on host-pathogen interactions and the genetic determinants of infectious disease, innate immunity, antimicrobial resistance and vaccine development.

Following are the recorded presentations from our two-day event.

Keynote address

Howard Frumkin, Dr.P.H., M.P.H, M.D.
Presentation title: The Fifth P: Planetary Change and the Future of Human Health

Session 1: Population Health

Lee Hood, M.D., Ph.D.
Presentation title: A Systems-Driven View of Population Health Anchored in Understanding the Individual

Gilla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Presentation title: Discovery and Development of New Tools to Improve Management of the TB Epidemic

Leo Anthony Celi, Ph.D.
Presentation title: The Challenge of Medical Artificial Intelligence

Theo Vos, M.D., Ph.D.
Presentation title: Forecasting Global Burden of Disease Estimates

Population Health panel discussion

Session 2: Early Warning Systems

Jeffrey Shaman, Ph.D.
Presentation title: Forecasting the Growth and Spread of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Stephen A. Williams, M.D., Ph.D.
Presentation title: What Will We Learn from a Billion Protein Measurements?

Jennifer Gardy, Ph.D.
Presentation title: Towards a Genomics-Informed Digital Pathogen Surveillance System

Trevor Bedford, Ph.D.
Presentation title: Real-time Tracking of Virus Evolution

Early Warning Systems panel discussion

Session 3: Prevention and Therapy

Marc Lipsitch, Ph.D.
Presentation title: Why Haven’t Drug-Resistant Bacteria Taken Over the World?

Anushree Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Presentation title: From Synthetic Biology to Nanobiotechnology: Rational Antimicrobial Engineering Approaches for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens

Tanya Parish, Ph.D.
Presentation title: Can We Solve Antimicrobial Resistance with Current Approaches?

Julie McElrath, M.D., Ph.D.
Presentation title: Prospects for an Effective HIV Vaccine

Prevention and Therapy panel discussion

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