2011 Presentations (Communicative Events)

Influenza Pandemics in Context

Redd, Stephen C.

The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative is a research program that employs historical analysis to confront present and future problems in world politics. The 2011 topic is the History and Future of Pandemic Threats and Global Public Health. In this lecture, Stephen C. Redd, assistant surgeon general, United States Public Health Service, and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Influenza Coordination Unit, discusses the history of global influenza pandemics in the twentieth century.