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October 5, 2009

John Barry, renowned author and historian on Flu
"Reflections on the Current H1N1 Flu."
Time: 2 PM
Location: Grier Room B (34-401B)
Details: Click here for more details

Enough data on H1N1 has accumulated that we can reach some tentative conclusions. It seems clearly to target people born after 1957, and generate high morbidity in schools, while those >65 have largely escaped. It also seems generally mild, although that depends how one defines "mild." One study, using one measure, concluded it's 100 times as virulent as seasonal flu. Nonetheless numerous questions remain. For one thing, it lacks molecular markers to do some of the things it is doing, including for human transmissibility as well as for invading the cells directly. And the most important question that remains open is a general one: whether any influenza virus can change virulence. Although some virologists speculate that changes in virulence have not been observed, historical evidence not only from past pandemics but from seasonal influenza suggests otherwise.

October 17, 2008
To Keep or Not To Keep the Electoral College: New Approaches to Electoral Reform

Time: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Location: Bartos Theater
Details: Click here for more details.

Conference organized by MIT Sloan School of Management and CESF.

September 26, 2008
Pandemic Influenza Advisory Board Meeting

Download presenations from meeting:

  • Meeting of Advisory Board: MIT Project on Pandemic Flu Preparedness and Response, by Richard C. Larson (download here)
  • Pandemic Influenza and Planning at MIT, by Karima Nigmatulina and Margaret (Peggy) Enders (download here)
  • Interventions in a Multi-Community Model & Modeling Behavior Changes, by Karima Nigmatulina and Richard C. Larson (download here)
  • Two Manuscripts in Draft:
    Empowering Individuals and Families in The Event of a Flu Pandemic by Stan N. Finkelstein, M.D., Shiva Prakash, Karima Nigmatulina, and Richard Larson, Ph.D.
    Pandemic Influenza Planning: How Ready are the Fifty States?” by Richard Larson, Ph.D., Karima Nigmatulina, aand Stan N. Finkelstein, M.D.
    (download here)
  • Learning from the Past: Boston and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
    by Mandie D. Holmes (download here)

April 22-23, 2008
MIT Workshop with Pandemic Flu Planning Leaders from the States of the USA
Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, NY

Location: 3-270
Open to: MIT, Stratton Student Center
Contact: Patty Eames
Details: Click here for more details.

October 28 -November 1, 2007
LINC 2007 Conference
Technology-Enabled Education: A Catalyst for Positive Change
Details: Click here for more details.

October 15 , 2007
A Conversation with John M. Barry
Speaker: John M. Barry, prize-winning and New York Times best-selling
author

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Stata Center, 32-155
Contact: Patty Eames, 617.324.0377
Details: Click here for more details.

April 25, 2007
Lecture and Book Signing
Topic: The Electoral College in U.S. Presidential Elections: Logical
Foundations, Mathematics, and Politics.
Speaker: Dr. Alexander S. Belenky, Visiting Scholar, MIT ESD

Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Building 1-190
Open to: General Public
Contact: Patty Eames, 617.324.0377
Details: Click here for more details.

     
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