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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Video Webinars – Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World

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The global spread of COVID-19 has caused dramatic changes in our daily lives and left many wondering, "How did we get here?" and "How can we do better?" The exhibit Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World explored the factors that increase the risk that new diseases will emerge and provides an intellectual framework for understanding how viruses can spill over from animals and become a global pandemic. In conjunction with the exhibition, we hosted programs to help put COVID-19 into context and to explore the interconnection between people, non-human animals, plants, and their shared environment.

Videos

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)
A man wearing a light-colored collared shirt and a dark sport coat. Behind him is a photo background of a forest.
Predicting and Preventing the Next Pandemic
A man in a dark jacket, white shirt, and colorful striped tie sitting in a chair with a full bookcase behind him. He has a tan complexion, short dark hair, and is wearing a headphones with a headset microphone.
How Diseases Shape the Course of Human History: A Conversation with Author Kyle Harper

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
Screenshot of webinar recording showing speakers Julio Capó, Kellan Baker, Dázon Dizon Diallo, and Pastor William Francis
End Stigma, End HIV: World AIDS Day 2021
A smiling man with short gray hair wearing a blue shirt. Behind him is a teapot on a shelf and a kitchen counter.
Grassroots Leaders Reversing HIV Stigma: Peter Staley, David France, Requel Lopes, and Linda Villarosa

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

Shared Planet, Shared Health

Title text reads Monkeypox: Old Foe, New Moves, next to an image of blue dots of monkeypox virus on a background of pink cells
Monkeypox: Old Foe, New Movements
Amanda Beaudoin, a smiling, light-skinned woman with long brown hair
Superbugs, Antimicrobial Resistance, the Environment, and You
Text reads Ferrets Back from the Brink featuring Paul Marinari, shown next to photo of two black-footed ferret kits
Ferrets Back from the Brink
A bat flying in front of some trees. Text reads, Shared Planet, Shared Health: Healthy Bats, Healthy Horses, Healthy Humans
Healthy Bats, Healthy Horses, Healthy Humans
Image of the night sky and Milky Way with a yellow glow near the horizon, above some trees. Next to the image is a text panel that reads, "Shared Planet, Shared Health - Lights Out: The Effects of Light Pollution on Bird Health, featuring Valentina Alaasam, April 12
Lights Out: The Effects of Light Pollution on Bird Health
Close-up of a bee with yellow hair on its head and upper abdomen, and paler yellow and black stripes down the rest of its abdomen. Text above it reads, "Meet the Natives" and below it says "Habropoda excellens, three-spotted digger bee"
For the Love of Bees: Pollinators in a Connected World