Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Program Description:
Avian flu is the most prominent zoonotic infection that threatens the public’s health today. Recent decades have seen the emergence of many new infectious diseases in humans, and the continued expansion of the worldwide human population into the surrounding environment, combined with ever increasing globalization, ensures that we will see many other infections emerge in the coming years.
Learning Objectives:
After this program participants should be able to:
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Describe how emerging infectious diseases may originate from zoonotic or ecological sources.
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List systems in place for global surveillance of infectious diseases.
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List at least three major zoonoses of recent public health concern.
Who Should Attend:
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Public health and health care professionals concerned with emerging infections, zoonoses, bioterrorism, emergency preparedness, epidemiology, communicable disease control, surveillance, and vaccine production, working at the local, state, and national level.
Date: Thursday, June 8, 2006
Time: 10-11 AM ET
Rebroadcast Time: 4-5 PM ET
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Register at: www.ualbanycphp.org or phone 518-486-7921
Local site: University at Albany School of
Public Health, George Education Center
Auditorium,
University at Albany East Campus, Routes 9 &
20 (near Interstate 787 & downtown Albany).
Continuing Education Units: Nursing
Contact Hours, CHES and CME credits are available upon completion of evaluation and post-test.
Closed Captioned (Satellite downlink & VHS only; not available for webcast.)
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Biography
Stephen S. Morse, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology.
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Dr. Stephen Morse's interests focus on epidemiology of infectious diseases, and improving disease early warning systems. In 2000, he returned to Columbia after 4 years in government as program manager for Biodefense at the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
Department of Defense, where he co-directed the
Pathogen Countermeasures program and subsequently directed the Advanced Diagnostics program. Before coming to Columbia, he was assistant professor of
Virology at The Rockefeller University in New York, and remains an adjunct faculty member. His book, Emerging
Viruses (Oxford University Press) was selected by
"American Scientist" for its list of "100 Top Science Books of the 20th Century”.
Dr. Morse was chair and principal organizer of the 1989
NIAID/NIH (National Institutes of Health) Conference on
Emerging Viruses, for which he originated the term and concept of emerging viruses/infections; served as a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of
Sciences' Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to
Health (and chaired its Task Force on Viruses), and was a contributor to its report, Emerging Infections (1992). He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats, and the
National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Future
Biowarfare Threats; and has served as an adviser to numerous government and international organizations. He was the founding chair of ProMED (the nonprofit international Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases) and was one of the originators of ProMED-mail, an international network inaugurated by ProMED in 1994 for outbreak reporting and disease monitoring using the
Internet.
Selected Publications
Olson, D.R., Simonsen, L., Edelson, P.J., Morse,
S.S. " Epidemiological evidence of an early wave of the
1918 influenza pandemic in New York City " Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. (USA) 102 11059-11063 2005
Morse SS " Building academic-practice partnerships:
The Center for Public Health Preparedness at the
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, before and after 9/11 " J Publ Jlth Mgmt Practice 9 427-
432 2003
Morse SS " The vigilance defense " Scientific American
287 88-89 2002
Rosenfield A, Morse SS, Yanda K " September 11: the response and role of public health " Am J Publ Hlth
92 10-11 2002
Morse SS, Sakaguchi N, Sakaguchi S " Virus and autoimmunity: induction of autoimmune disease in mice by mouse T lymphotropic virus (MTLV) destroying CD4+ T cells " J. Immunol 162 5309-
5316 1999
Morse SS, Rosenberg BH, Woodall J, ProMED Steering
Committee Drafting Subgroup (1996) " Global monitoring of emerging diseases: design for a demonstration program ." Health Policy 38 135-153 1996
Morse, S.S. " The Evolutionary Biology of
Viruses " Raven Press 1994
Morse SS " Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases " Emerging Infectious Diseases 1 7-15 1995
Morse SS (Ed.) " Emerging Viruses " Oxford Univ.
Press New York 1993