Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy: Session Two: The Economics (Audio)
Listen to experts analyze the economic effects of pandemic influenza including on the labor force and trade.
This session was part of a CFR...
Speakers: Yanzhong Huang, Director, Center for Global Health Studies, Seton Hall University
Andrew Jack, Pharmaceutical Correspondent, Financial Times
Michael T. Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota (via teleconference)
Presider: Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
October 16, 2009
This session was part of a CFR symposium, Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy, which was cosponsored with Science Magazine.
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