Close Modal Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World Try your hand at being an outbreak responder in this interactive forum, featuring special guest Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, Boston University School of Medicine. Part of the Museum's yearlong spotlight on Being Human. Do you want to try your hand at being an outbreak responder? This interactive forum will engage participants to walk through the decision-making process of responding to infectious disease threats such as avian influenza and Ebola.Participants will work together to consider the many factors that play into these decisions, including availability of funding, testing and surveillance development, global partnerships, distribution of medical countermeasures, and alerts from the Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON). Content based on an exhibition created for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.Presented in collaboration with the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (BU CEID).This event is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Register for the Event Date and Time Thursday, May 8 | Light refreshments at 6:30 pm, program 7:00 – 9:00 pm Audience Adults Location Skyline View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Register for the Event Date and Time Thursday, May 8 | Light refreshments at 6:30 pm, program 7:00 – 9:00 pm Audience Adults Location Skyline View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Do you want to try your hand at being an outbreak responder? This interactive forum will engage participants to walk through the decision-making process of responding to infectious disease threats such as avian influenza and Ebola.Participants will work together to consider the many factors that play into these decisions, including availability of funding, testing and surveillance development, global partnerships, distribution of medical countermeasures, and alerts from the Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON). Content based on an exhibition created for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.Presented in collaboration with the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (BU CEID).This event is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Presented in collaboration with Image Featuring Image Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine Dr. Nahid Bhadelia is a board-certified infectious diseases physician and the founding director of the Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases at Boston University. She is an associate professor at the BU School of Medicine and focuses on global health security at the Pardee School of Global Studies.From 2022–2023, Dr. Bhadelia served as senior policy advisor for global COVID-19 response at the White House, coordinating U.S. vaccine donations and leading Project NextGen. She also served as interim testing coordinator for the White House MPOX response and is the co-founder of BEACON, an open-source outbreak surveillance initiative.Previously, she was medical director of Boston Medical Center’s Special Pathogens Unit and associate director of BU’s high-containment research laboratory. She has led and participated in Ebola outbreak responses and clinical research, including work in Uganda with the Department of Defense–funded JMEDICC program. Currently, she co-directs a Fogarty-funded research training program with the University of Liberia.Dr. Bhadelia serves on advisory groups for the World Health Organization and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has advised the CDC, Department of Defense, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the World Bank. She is also an adjunct professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she teaches global health security.Her work has been published in Nature, Science, and The New England Journal of Medicine, and featured in The Atlantic, Time, NOVA, and National Geographic. From 2020–2022, she was a medical contributor to NBC and MSNBC.
