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31 January 2019, Seattle: Guest lecture in Environmental Health Seminar at Washington University #540

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Daniel-Mietchen commented 5 years ago

Thursdays, 12:30-1:20 pm (Pacific) https://deohs.washington.edu/calendar/environmental-health-seminar

The Environmental Health Seminar (Env H 580) is a department-sponsored seminar series for students, staff, and faculty; practicing professionals in the environmental and occupational health fields; and the public. This seminar highlights the rich diversity of our department and is an opportunity to hear from local, national, and internationally known scientists, practitioners, and policymakers on issues of current scientific importance.

Title of my talk: Data Sharing as a Key Component of Addressing and Preparing for Disease Outbreaks

Daniel-Mietchen commented 5 years ago

This is a follow-up to my talk at International Data Week 2018 (abstract, slides).

Daniel-Mietchen commented 5 years ago

In preparation, I will post some additional notes here before setting up the slides proper.

For instance, there was a press release by the Liberian Ministry of Health, announcing that fragments of Ebola Zaire virus RNA had been found in a Miniopterus inflatus bat in Liberia:

“felt that this was an important finding to bring to the public irrespective of a scientific publication”

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try to dig out that old paywalled paper that predicted that Liberia might be in risk of an Ebola outbreak

Daniel-Mietchen commented 5 years ago

Here's a post about a post about such papers: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150409/17514230608/dont-think-open-access-is-important-it-might-have-prevented-much-ebola-outbreak.shtml

Daniel-Mietchen commented 5 years ago

some more on those Liberian papers:

Daniel-Mietchen commented 5 years ago

My slides for today are up at https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/Environmental-Health-Seminar-Env-H-580-on-2019-01-31.md . Will keep tuning them a bit more.

Daniel-Mietchen commented 5 years ago

Both the Liberian press release and the UVA email contained recommendations, and recommendations are just another kind of data to be collected, refined and shared in emergency contexts.

Daniel-Mietchen commented 5 years ago

Talk is over. I think it went well. It was recorded, and I hope it will be posted somewhere public soon.