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Beth P. Bell

Beth Bell


Beth P. Bell
E.T. York 2016 Distinguished Lecture Series
“Zoonotic Diseases”
TUESDAY, February 9, 2016 @ 4:00 PM
Lowder Building 113A

 

In recent years, reports of MERS, Aids, Ebola, and influenza outbreaks have appeared in news media with distressing regularity.   They are responsible for many deaths and considerable social disruption.   All are communicable diseases once transmitted to humans from animals and insects.   They are termed ‘zoonotic disease’, and public health officials have devoted enormous resources to combatting them because of the dangers they pose to human wellbeing.   Dr. Beth P. Bell has long been at the center of these efforts.    

Dr. Bell has a most distinguished career in public health.   She has been employed by the Centers for Communicable Diseases since 1992.   In 2010, she was appointed director of the National Center of Infectious and Zoonotic Emerging Diseases, part of the Centers for Communicable Disease in Atlanta.   She has an MD from Yale University and a Masters of Public Health from Brown University.   She is author or coauthor of 125 scientific publications and has received many awards for her work.   These include the Alexander Langmuir Prize and the Iain Hardy Award.   

Last Updated: October 17, 2016