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Center for Public Health Preparedness
Live Satellite Broadcast and Webcast
Epidemiology and Surveillance of Emerging Infections
Stephen S. Morse, PhD
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:
 Describe how emerging infectious diseases may originate from
zoonotic or ecological sources.
 List systems in place for global surveillance of infectious
diseases.
 List at least three major zoonoses of recent public health
concern.
Who Should Attend:
 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.
Support for the University at Albany Center for Public Health Preparedness is received
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cooperative agreement
U90/CCU224249, in collaboration with the Association of Schools of Public Health
(ASPH). The contents of this program are solely the responsibility of the authors and
do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or ASPH.
Date: Thursday, June 8, 2006
Time: 10-11 AM ET
Rebroadcast Time: 4-5 PM ET
Archives of all programs will be available
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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.)
Live webcast provided by:
Center for Public Health Preparedness
About the Speaker
Biography
Selected Publications
Stephen S. Morse, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology.
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
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
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.
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 427432 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 53095316 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