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Chapter: Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Speakers/Presentations at the Committee Meetings

Meeting#1: March 23-24, 1999

Donald Burke (committee member), Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Epidemic Forecasting: Toward a Predictive Science of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Ann Carmichael (committee member), Indiana University

Historical Overview of Infectious Diseases and Society

Jonathan Patz, Johns Hopkins University

Overview of Current Climate and Health Assessment Activities

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Earth Science Enterprise, Nancy Maynard

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Life Science Division, David Liskowski

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Juli Trtanj

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anne Grambsch

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Duane Gubler (written briefing)

National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIAID), Kate Aultman

United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), Robert Corell

National Science Foundation (NSF), Robert Corell

United States Geological Survey (USGS), Stephen Guptill

Overview of Relevant Federal Agency Research Activities

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Meeting #2: July 20-21, 1999

John Harte (committee member) University of California, Berkeley
Scaling: From Manipulated Plots to Landscape and Regions

Roger Pielke, Jr., National Center for Atmospheric Research
The Science of Prediction and Forecasting

Paul Epstein, Harvard Medical School, Center for Health and the Global Environment
Discussion of NRC Report Making Climate Forecasts Matter

Panel Discussion on Predictive Mathematical Modeling:

Pim Martens (committee member), Maastricht University
Models of Vectorial Capacity

Dana Focks (committee member), United States Department of Agriculture Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology
Dengue and Lyme Models

Eileen Hofmann, Old Dominion University
Modeling Studies of Oyster Disease in Chesapeake Bay

Mercedes Pascual, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Nonlinear Time-Series Models

Panel Discussion on Examples of Early Warning Systems

Will Whelan, U.S. Agency for International Development; Eric Wood, U.S. Geological Survey
Famine Early Warning System

Ken Linthicum, Walter Reed Army Institute; Compton Tucker, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Warning System for Rift Valley Fever

Linda Mearns (committee member), National Center for Atmospheric Research
Agricultural Warning Systems

Joan Rose (committee member), University of South Florida
Water Quality Warning Systems

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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David Cleaves, U.S. Forest Service
Forest Fire Early Warning/Forecasting System

Meeting #3: October 11-13, 1999

Mark Wilson (committee member), University of Michigan
Analytic Approaches to Studying Climate Impacts on Health

Stuart Bretschneider, Syracuse University
Forecasting Methods Used in Business/Economic Disciplines

Mervyn Susser, Columbia University
Ecological Epidemiology

Panel Discussion on the Ecology, Epidemiology, and Climate Linkages of Specific Diseases:

Rita Colwell, National Science Foundation
Cholera

Nancy Rosenstein, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Meningococcal Disease

Cynthia Lord, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
St. Louis Encephalitis

Gregory Gurri Glass, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Hantavirus

Ned Walker, Michigan State University
Lyme Disease

Meeting #4, Jan. 31- Feb. 1, 2000

William Sprigg, University of Arizona
Overview of Planned World Meteorological Organization/World Health Organization Conference on Climate and Health

Panel Discussion on the Ecology, Epidemiology, and Climate Linkages of Specific Diseases: (continued)

Ed Kilbourne, New York Medical College
Influenza

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Steve Lindsay, University of Durham
Malaria

Paul Reiter, Center for Disease Control
Malaria and Other Mosquito-Borne Diseases

Panel Discussion on Creating Effective Disease Early Warning Systems: The Needs of the User Communities:

Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University
Communication to the Public About Health Risks

James Leduc, Center for Disease Control
National/International Public Health Interventions

Joan Mulcare, San Bernardino County Health Department.
State/Local Public Health Interventions

Meeting #5: April 10-11, 2000

Jonathan Patz, Johns Hopkins University
The U.S. National Assessment Health Sector Report

William Lyerly, U.S. Agency for International Development
Natural Disasters and Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Steve Ostroff, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Infectious Disease Surveillance Systems and Epidemiological Databases

Joel Gaydos, Walter Reed Army Institute
The DOD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers/Presentations at the Committee eetings." National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10025.
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Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and spread of many infectious diseases based on climate and weather forecasts. However, separating the effects of climate from other effects presents a tremendous scientific challenge.

Can we use climate and weather forecasts to predict infectious disease outbreaks? Can the field of public health advance from "surveillance and response" to "prediction and prevention?" And perhaps the most important question of all: Can we predict how global warming will affect the emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents around the world?

Under the Weather evaluates our current understanding of the linkages among climate, ecosystems, and infectious disease; it then goes a step further and outlines the research needed to improve our understanding of these linkages. The book also examines the potential for using climate forecasts and ecological observations to help predict infectious disease outbreaks, identifies the necessary components for an epidemic early warning system, and reviews lessons learned from the use of climate forecasts in other realms of human activity.

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