Dr. Peter Daszak is President of EcoHealth Alliance, a US-based organization that conducts research and outreach programs on global health, conservation, and international development. Dr. Daszak’s research has been instrumental in identifying and predicting the impact of emerging diseases across the globe. His achievements include identifying the bat origin of SARS, and the underlying drivers of both Nipah and Hendra virus emergence. He confirmed the first case of a species extinction due to disease, and identified chytridiomycosis as the cause of amphibian declines around the globe. He is one of the founders of the field of conservation medicine and has been instrumental in the growth of EcoHealth, One Health, and now Planetary Health.
This lecture is free and will be held at Zoo Atlanta. Please RSVP by September 28, 2018: give.zooatlanta.org/bournelecture.