Dear colleagues,

I would like to invite you to a special session of CDC’s Grand Rounds, Shifts in Global Health Security: Lessons from Ebola on Tuesday, September 29, from 1-2 PM at CDC’s Roybal Campus to discuss the changing landscape of global health security and how the Ebola epidemic in West Africa helped spur worldwide action. I’ll be telling the story behind the Global Health Security Agenda and the impact of the Ebola epidemic.

I’ll be joined by my distinguished colleagues, Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Senior Associate at the UPMC Center for Health Security, who will be presenting on the successes, challenges and lessons learned from the response to Ebola in West Africa, and Dr. David Blazes, Director of Military Tropical Medicine at the US Department of Defense, who will discuss global disease surveillance and its importance for health security. Details about the session are included in the link below.

Jordan W. Tappero, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Global Health Protection
Center for Global Health, CDC

CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:
“Shifts in Global Health Security: Lessons from Ebola”

Tuesday, September 29, 2015
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., EDT

Global Communications Center (Building 19)
Auditorium A, Alexander D. Langmuir
Roybal Campus

Presented By:

Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM
Senior Associate
UPMC Center for Health Security
“Ebola Successes and Challenges and What They Mean for Future Health Security Threats”

David L. Blazes, MD, MPH
Director, Military Tropical Medicine, US Department of Defense
Professor, Tropical Public Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
US Navy Specialty Leader, Infectious Diseases, Navy Medicine Professional Development Center
“Infectious Disease Surveillance and Global Security”

Jordan W. Tappero, MD, MPH
Captain, US Public Health Service
Director, Division of Global Health Protection
Center for Global Health, CDC
“The Global Health Security Agenda and the West Africa Ebola Epidemic”

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

For CDC staff unable to attend the event:
The session will be available on IPTV and Envision.To join by Envision, reserve a conference room and make the Envision request or use your local room scheduling process to schedule Envision.

For non-CDC staff interested in viewing the session:
A live external webcast will be available.For individuals who are unable to view the session during the scheduled time, the archived presentation will be posted 48 hours after each session.

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Shifts in Global Health Security: Lessons from Ebola

Webcast Links

Windows Media:
http://wm.onlinevideoservice.com/CDC1

Flash:
http://www.onlinevideoservice.com/clients/CDC/?mount=CDC3

Captions are only available on the Windows Media links. The webcast links are only active during

the date and time of the session, but all sessions are archived for future viewing.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 1pm EST.

Global health security is the protection of the health of people and societies worldwide. With diseases a plane ride or border crossing away, the importance of global health security has never been clearer. Patterns of global travel and trade pose greater opportunities for infectious diseases to emerge and spread nearly anywhere within 24 hours. The Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which has infected more than 28,000 people across 10 countries and has caused more than 11,200 deaths, highlights the importance of ensuring that every country is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks and emerging health threats. Disease threats also have a devastating impact on economies. A recent World Bank economic analysis estimated that Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, will lose at least $2.2 billion in 2015 as a result of the epidemic.

Global health security must be a shared responsibility with collaboration within countries and across many organizations and governments. In 2005, 194 countries collaborated to revise a set of health policy rules called the International Health Regulations (IHR), establishing greater global health security capacity than ever before. But although all member states signed on to the IHR, by the end of 2014, only 64 countries reported being fully prepared to detect and respond to disease threats. We have also seen an emergence and spread of new infectious threats and a rise of drug resistance in microbes. In the wake of Ebola, it is clear that every nation must undertake public health surveillance and support basic public health infrastructure.

In this session of Public Health Grand Rounds we discuss how CDC, other U.S. government agencies, and global partners are working to promote global health security as an international priority and accelerate progress toward a world safe and secure from epidemics of infectious disease.

Presented By:

Jordan W. Tappero, MD, MPHCaptain, US Public Health Service
Director, Division of Global Health Protection
Center for Global Health, CDC
"The Global Health Security Agenda and the West Africa Ebola Epidemic"

Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SMSenior AssociateUPMC Center for Health Security
"Ebola Successes and Challenges and What they Mean for Future Health Security Threats"

David L. Blazes, MD, MPHDirector, Military Tropical Medicine, US Department of Defense
Professor, Tropical Public Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
US Navy Specialty Leader, Infectious Diseases, Navy Medicine Professional Development Center
"Infectious Disease Surveillance and Global Security"

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds