{"660684":{"#nid":"660684","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IHE-LeaD Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026quot;Pandemic Models and Mitigation: Translating Epidemic Principles into Practice\u0026quot;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProfessor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCo-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Biological Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBlaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence at the Ecole Normale Superieure\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nABSTRACT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the health and well-being communities all across the globe. From the outset, epidemic theory and models have played a key role in advancing understanding of the potential threat and in shaping public health responses. This talk will highlight ways that epidemic models served as a guide for mitigation and action-taking spanning both local and national scales, using collaborative examples developed at Georgia Tech that centered on mitigating the dangers associated with asymptomatic spread. But models, even good models, have limits. In practice, public health responses must be flexible enough to face the changing threat of an evolving virus and a transformed society. Hence in closing, I will address speculatively, or perhaps even aspirationally, the type of sustained changes needed to adapt acute responses into an infrastructure capable of preventing future pandemics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EThe Interdisciplinary Health and Environment Leadership Development (IHE-LeaD) is a new program that connects scholars at GT to jointly work towards advancing the intersection of human and environmental health, and to discuss opportunities and challenges for translating scholarly work into actions with public impact and visibility. Our program runs a monthly seminar series that is open to the GT public. GT speakers will present their work on impact-driven research at the intersection of IHE. You can receive regular announcements about upcoming seminars via the IHE email list contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gsteinbach6@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGabi Steinbach\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETo learn more information about the seminar series and the IHE-LeaD program, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/ihe-lead\/seminars\/\u0022\u003Evisit their website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Pandemic Models and Mitigation: Translating Epidemic Principles into Practice\u0022 - Joshua Weitz, Ph.D. - Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2022-08-30 14:22:57","changed_gmt":"2022-08-31 12:18:46","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-09-08T15:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-09-08T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-09-08T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-09-08 19:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-09-08 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-09-08 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188228","name":"go-bio-other"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvent inquiries -\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gsteinbach6@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGabi Steinbach\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}