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Perambulations through Global Health with an Emphasis on Vision

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Air date: Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 12:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views: Total views: 270 (88 Live, 182 On-demand)
Category: Special
Runtime: 01:11:37
Description: “Global Health" is the new buzz phrase for traditional public health writ large. It encompasses everything from acute infectious diseases to chronic maladies, all of which can become border-crossing epidemics of microbial or behavioral origin. Dr. Alfred Sommer, Dean Emeritus of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and University Distinguished Service Professor of Epidemiology, Ophthalmology and International Health at Johns Hopkins University, has spent a lifetime crossing national boundaries and medical disciplines. He will discuss some of his more memorable interactions, and their present day relevance, ranging from the containment of infectious epidemics to the prevention and treatment of blinding diseases.

Sponsored by the National Eye Institute, NIH

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NLM Title: Perambulations through global health with an emphasis on vision / Dr. Alfred Sommer.
Author: Sommer, Alfred.
National Eye Institute,
Publisher:
Abstract: (CIT): "Global Health" is the new buzz phrase for traditional public health writ large. It encompasses everything from acute infectious diseases to chronic maladies, all of which can become border-crossing epidemics of microbial or behavioral origin. Dr. Alfred Sommer, Dean Emeritus of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and University Distinguished Service Professor of Epidemiology, Ophthalmology and International Health at Johns Hopkins University, has spent a lifetime crossing national boundaries and medical disciplines. He will discuss some of his more memorable interactions, and their present day relevance, ranging from the containment of infectious epidemics to the prevention and treatment of blinding diseases.
Subjects: Eye Diseases--etiology
Eye Diseases--prevention & control
Global Health
Vitamin A Deficiency--complications
Vitamin A--therapeutic use
Publication Types: Lecture
Webcast
 
NLM Classification: WW 140
NLM ID: 101649915
CIT Live ID: 15252
Permanent link: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=15252

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