Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy: Session One: The Science
Watch experts detail how pandemic influenza viruses are created, why populations are affected differently, and how vaccinations affect the...
Speakers: Arnold Monto, Professor, Epidemiology, University of Michigan
Peter Palese, Professor and Chair, Microbiology; and Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Lone Simonsen, Research Professor and Research Director, Department of Global Health, George Washington University
Presider: Jon Cohen, Correspondent, Science Magazine
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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Watch experts detail how pandemic influenza viruses are created, why populations are affected differently, and how vaccinations affect the...
Session I of the Council On Foreign Relations Symposium Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics and Foreign Policy. Subject: The Science
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