Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease (2001)
Chapter: B Speakers/Presentations at the Committee Meetings
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B
Speakers/Presentations at the Committee Meetings
Meeting#1: March 23-24, 1999
Donald Burke (committee member), Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Epidemic Forecasting: Toward a Predictive Science of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Ann Carmichael (committee member), Indiana University
Historical Overview of Infectious Diseases and Society
Jonathan Patz, Johns Hopkins University
Overview of Current Climate and Health Assessment Activities
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Earth Science Enterprise, Nancy Maynard
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Life Science Division, David Liskowski
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Juli Trtanj
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anne Grambsch
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Duane Gubler (written briefing)
National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIAID), Kate Aultman
United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), Robert Corell
National Science Foundation (NSF), Robert Corell
United States Geological Survey (USGS), Stephen Guptill
Overview of Relevant Federal Agency Research Activities
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Meeting #2: July 20-21, 1999
John Harte (committee member) University of California, Berkeley
Scaling: From Manipulated Plots to Landscape and Regions
Roger Pielke, Jr., National Center for Atmospheric Research
The Science of Prediction and Forecasting
Paul Epstein, Harvard Medical School, Center for Health and the Global Environment
Discussion of NRC Report Making Climate Forecasts Matter
Panel Discussion on Predictive Mathematical Modeling:
Pim Martens (committee member), Maastricht University
Models of Vectorial Capacity
Dana Focks (committee member), United States Department of Agriculture Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology
Dengue and Lyme Models
Eileen Hofmann, Old Dominion University
Modeling Studies of Oyster Disease in Chesapeake Bay
Mercedes Pascual, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Nonlinear Time-Series Models
Panel Discussion on Examples of Early Warning Systems
Will Whelan, U.S. Agency for International Development; Eric Wood, U.S. Geological Survey
Famine Early Warning System
Ken Linthicum, Walter Reed Army Institute; Compton Tucker, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Warning System for Rift Valley Fever
Linda Mearns (committee member), National Center for Atmospheric Research
Agricultural Warning Systems
Joan Rose (committee member), University of South Florida
Water Quality Warning Systems
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David Cleaves, U.S. Forest Service
Forest Fire Early Warning/Forecasting System
Meeting #3: October 11-13, 1999
Mark Wilson (committee member), University of Michigan
Analytic Approaches to Studying Climate Impacts on Health
Stuart Bretschneider, Syracuse University
Forecasting Methods Used in Business/Economic Disciplines
Mervyn Susser, Columbia University
Ecological Epidemiology
Panel Discussion on the Ecology, Epidemiology, and Climate Linkages of Specific Diseases:
Rita Colwell, National Science Foundation
Cholera
Nancy Rosenstein, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Meningococcal Disease
Cynthia Lord, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
St. Louis Encephalitis
Gregory Gurri Glass, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Hantavirus
Ned Walker, Michigan State University
Lyme Disease
Meeting #4, Jan. 31- Feb. 1, 2000
William Sprigg, University of Arizona
Overview of Planned World Meteorological Organization/World Health Organization Conference on Climate and Health
Panel Discussion on the Ecology, Epidemiology, and Climate Linkages of Specific Diseases: (continued)
Ed Kilbourne, New York Medical College
Influenza
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Steve Lindsay, University of Durham
Malaria
Paul Reiter, Center for Disease Control
Malaria and Other Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Panel Discussion on Creating Effective Disease Early Warning Systems: The Needs of the User Communities:
Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University
Communication to the Public About Health Risks
James Leduc, Center for Disease Control
National/International Public Health Interventions
Joan Mulcare, San Bernardino County Health Department.
State/Local Public Health Interventions
Meeting #5: April 10-11, 2000
Jonathan Patz, Johns Hopkins University
The U.S. National Assessment Health Sector Report
William Lyerly, U.S. Agency for International Development
Natural Disasters and Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Steve Ostroff, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Infectious Disease Surveillance Systems and Epidemiological Databases
Joel Gaydos, Walter Reed Army Institute
The DOD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System
