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Video Webinars – Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World

Videos from Past Series

Contextualizing the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pandemic expert Dennis Carroll and Curator of Biological Anthropology Sabrina Sholts.
A Conversation with Dennis Carroll: Predicting Pandemics
Two images: A slide reading, The Pandemic Century - from the Spanish flu to Covid 19; and an image of Mark Honigsbaum.
Pandemic Past, Pandemic Present with Medical Historian Mark Honigsbaum
Video screenshot of spike protein on a coronavirus next to a cell in a human body.
Vaccines, Part 1: The Science of Vaccines
Sabrina Sholts
Vaccines, Part 2: Ensuring Vaccine Safety
Lynda Stuart
Vaccines, Part 3: From the Laboratory to a Shot in the Arm
Sharon Kaufman
Vaccines, Part 4: Vaccines and Society
Image of presentation slide illustrating how MRNA vaccines work with alongside image of presenter Alicia Hernandez, MD
Expertos contestan sus preguntas sobre las vacunas de COVID-19 (en español / in Spanish)

AIDS at the Intersection of Community, Science, and Policy

Sasha Cuttler
HIV Activists and Caretakers
Seble Kassaye, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University
Scientific Advances in HIV Detection and Treatment
Gregorio Millet
How Laws and Policies Affect the Spread of HIV

Disease Vectors of the U.S.A.

Images of mosquito larvae and a graphic of the mosquito life cycle
Mosquitoes and the Diseases they Carry
Presentation slide with pictures of the three tick species that cause the most human infections.
Ticks and the Diseases They Carry