This special seminar series focuses on the theme of “Infectious Disease and Society”, and seeks to explore the scientific and societal impact of infectious diseases. This examines not only the COVID-19 pandemic from a number of angles, but also other infectious diseases such as salmonella and malaria.
As the Science & Society Programme has explored the issue of infectious diseases many times over the years, we are re-releasing a select number of related talks from our archive. We will also complement these previous talks with a series of new virtual lectures, reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Salmonella & Society
Olivia Steele-Mortimer
Deputy Chief of Laboratory of Bacteriology, Chief of Salmonella-Host Cell Interactions Section
NIH Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
The archaeology of microbes
Prof. Dr. Christina Warinner
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
The open source outbreak: how can data prevent the next pandemic?
Jennifer Gardy
Deputy Director of Surveillance, Data and Epidemiology
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Harnessing Big Data to Monitor and Tackle Pandemics
Ewan Birney chaired a round-table discussion will three expert panellists – Rolf Apweiler, Ilaria Capua and Enrico Bucci.
International frameworks for infectious disease control: past, present, and future
Claire Standley
Assistant Research Professor, Center for Global Health Science & Security
Georgetown University Medical Center
Why have we not been able to eradicate Malaria
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Frischknecht
Department of Parasitology, Hygiene Institute
Heidelberg University School of Medicine
1918 to 2018: a hundred years of influenza pandemics
Prof. Kanta Subbarao
Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza
Doherty Institute
Nerd Immunity: Journalism in the Time of Covid-19
Kai Kupferschmidt