The Zuckerman College of Public Health recently hosted an engagement event titled ‘Ending Pandemics: A Global Health Revolution’ to announce our new partnership with the groundbreaking global disease prevention nonprofit ‘Ending Pandemics’ and the innovative digital epidemiology education and research program that the partnership will launch at the University of Arizona.
The Zuckerman College of Public Health recently hosted an engagement event titled Ending Pandemics: A Global Health Revolution to announce our new partnership with the groundbreaking global disease prevention nonprofit ‘Ending Pandemics.’ The partnership will establish an innovative digital epidemiology education and research program called the ‘Ending Pandemics Academy’ at the University of Arizona. The new Academy will launch in 2025 as part of the college’s Global Health Institute.
The event on October 2, 2024, began with presentations from the core team at Ending Pandemics (EP), including Mark Smolinski, MD, MPH, President of EP, and Nomita Divi, MSPH, Executive Director of EP, who collaboratively introduced the portfolio of disease prevention programs that EP developed over the past decade.
Following the EP team’s orientation, a panel of top public health leaders from the Ending Pandemics Advisory Board responded to questions about the future of global disease and the need to train a new generation of adaptive and technologically adept public health professionals. Iman Hakim, MD, PhD, MPH, Dean of the Zuckerman College of Public Health, served as host for the event and as moderator for the panel discussion.
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The college thanks all the university leaders, researchers, staff, community leaders, county and city representatives, and students who attended the event to learn about the new partnership with Ending Pandemics! We look forward to future collaboration!
We would also like to give special thanks and recognition to Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation. None of the innovative projects and programs that Ending Pandemics has accomplished would have been possible without the support of the Skoll Foundation. The whole world benefits from this investment in our collective future health. We also thank Bruce Lowry from the Skoll Foundation for joining us for the event.
Thank you to our panelists!
Distinguished members of the Advisory Board for Ending Pandemics who participated in the panel discussion include:
Keiji Fukuda, MD, MPH
Ending Pandemics Advisory Board
Dr. Fukuda has worked in public health for over 30 years and is a global authority on emerging infectious diseases. He led numerous international field investigations and managed WHO’s global response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic.
Margaret Hamburg, MD
Ending Pandemics Advisory Board
The honorable Dr. Hamburg is an internationally recognized expert in medicine and public health as well as a leading authority on emergency preparedness and response. She served as FDA Commissioner under Obama.
Donna Shalala, PhD
Ending Pandemics Advisory Board
The honorable Donna E. Shalala is a distinguished educator and Trustee Professor at the University of Miami. She also served as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration.
Judy Wasserheit, MD, MPH
Ending Pandemics Advisory Board
Judith N. Wasserheit, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Global Health, Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Washington, where she played a central role in launching the Department of Global Health.
For more information about the new partnership and the Ending Pandemics Academy, please contact Roxanna Apaez, rapaez@arizona.edu.
