Imagining the Next Flu Pandemic and Preventing it!

Speakers Host and Moderator: Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill “Imagining the Next Flu Pandemic – and Preventing it!” Ralph Baric, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine; UNC-Chapel Hill About the Symposium This interdisciplinary symposium to mark the 100th anniversary of one of the deadliest pandemics in human history took place April 4-6, 2018, at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. Symposium events offered perspectives from the vantage points of medicine, health, social sciences and the humanities. Speakers included leading experts in epidemiology, virology, medicine, communications, literature, history, ethics, policy and other fields. Sponsors included UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Libraries, UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases