ChESS Series: “Resolving Host-Microbe Conflict,” with Toby Kiers
LENGTH ・ 00:44:33Toby Kiers, University Research Chair and professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Amsterdam, presented, “Resolving Host-Microbe Conflict,” at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, in Guyot Hall, Room 10. This event was the first in PEI’s Challenges in Environmental…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease
LENGTH ・ 00:53:11“Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease: Predictability and the Impact of Vaccination” by Bryan Grenfell, Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Violent epidemics of childhood infections such as…
What’s Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World
LENGTH ・ 01:26:08McKay Jenkins *96, Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English and Director of Journalism, University of Delaware, will discuss his bestselling new book on the growing presence of synthetic chemicals in our bodies and environment: What’s Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy…
Demography and Dynamics of Acute Childhood Infections
LENGTH ・ 00:55:07Bryan Grenfell – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America. We analyze the impact of birth seasonality (seasonal oscillations in…
The Challenge of Introducing New Vaccines: The UK Perspective
LENGTH ・ 00:58:03Professor David Salisbury CB – Associate Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security.Before joining Chatham House, David Salisbury was director of immunisation at the Department of Health until the end of 2013. He was responsible for the national immunisation programme and led…