Modern Transportation and Infectious Disease - MWV15
Uploaded on Mar 31, 2008 / 9478 views / 87319 impressions / 13 comments
Description
From your local bus route to international air travel, infectious diseases can spread across the globe in a matter of hours. In this video podcast episode filmed at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., Stephen Eubank from the...
From your local bus route to international air travel, infectious diseases can spread across the globe in a matter of hours. In this video podcast episode filmed at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., Stephen Eubank from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute of Virginia Tech and Daniel Lucey from Georgetown University discuss the role of transportation in the spread of disease and examine the effectiveness of various measures to curb transmission.
Stephen Eubank, Ph.D., is a project director at the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute of Virginia Tech. His research focuses on modeling and simulating the spread of disease and regional transportation, and the analysis of complex systems.
Daniel Lucey, M.D., M.P.H., is an adjunct professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University, where he is co-director of the master of science program in biohazardous threat agents and emerging infectious diseases. In recent years, his teaching focus has been on SARS, avian flu, and the threat of pandemic human influenza.
Resources
Learn more about infectious diseases at http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhib_infectious/index.jsp
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
http://www.trb.org/default.asp
Pandemic Flu and Travel http://www.pandemicflu.gov/travel/index.html
13 comments
labanex 2:18
I can imagine
csuspect 5:37
www.asm.org
csuspect 4:47
www.pandemicflu.gov
csuspect 2:23
Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute of Virginia Tech
csuspect 2:08
National Airport
csuspect 1:50
Union Station, DC
csuspect 0:17
www.microbeworld.org
csuspect 0:03
www.koshlandscience.org
labanex 4:23
I support public mass transit, but I never thought about disease on a wider scale. Interesting... Good video.