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Fighting Pandemics

April 23, 2020 | 1:55 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.

Experts on infectious disease outbreaks discuss how they spread, and how they have been fought in Africa and around the globe.
Ron Klain, Moderator – Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Revolution LLC; Former US Ebola Response Coordinator
Mateus Kambale Sahani – Vaccines Trial Programs Coordinator for Vaccines with Epicentre, Uganda
Sabrina Sholts – Curator of Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Speakers

Mateus Kambale Sahani

Epicentre/MSF

Ronald A. Klain

Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Revolution LLC

Sabrina Sholts

Curator of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History