Mitigating Zoonotic Threats
2021-2023
Lead Program Director
Sponsors
U.S. Department of Agriculture - including the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS,) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Additional Support
Theme
Today, most new or emerging infectious diseases in people cross over from animals. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear, a deeper understanding of the interactions between animals, people, pathogens and their environments could expand our ability to rapidly detect emerging pathogens and to quickly develop and deploy new medical countermeasures. This Scialog will bring together early-career scientists from multiple disciplines (including chemists, biologists, physicists, computer scientists, veterinary scientists, epidemiologists and public health specialists) along with scientists from federal agencies and thought leaders in the detection and mitigation of existing and emerging zoonotic threats. They will form an interdisciplinary community to catalyze basic scientific advances related to: rapid detection, identification, and diagnosis of pathogens and threats; mechanisms and inhibition of emerging and zoonotic disease pathogenesis; new approaches to vaccine development including methods that speed development or lead to broad-spectrum immunity; and modeling of epidemiology leading to actionable approaches to mitigating transmission.
Booklets
2023 Scialog MZT Conference Booklet
2022 Scialog MZT Conference Booklet
2021 Scialog-MZT Conference Booklet