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We’re only going to see more, not fewer, viral outbreaks due to several factors including:

• The end of vaccination programs for diseases that have been eradicated and re-emerge

• Increased connectivity due to global travel

• Pressure on the animal habitat leading to increased animal-human contact

Ed Kelley, PhD, Chief Global Health Officer at Apiject, explores the details of how we’ve responded to the latest 2024 mpox outbreak, where we could enhance our public health measures, and why there’s hope for improved vaccine delivery with innovative technologies in this Conversation.

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Protecting Women’s Health

What does it take to deliver high quality, equitable maternal healthcare from contraception to post-pregnancy?

• Addressing racial and ethnic disparities in maternal healthcare

• Implementing superior standards in postpartum care

• Investigating ways to prevent inheritable genetic diseases

These powerful speakers discuss solutions to decrease the extraordinarily high maternal mortality rate in the US, prevent disease in postpartum women, and provide options to mothers with mutated mitochondrial DNA. The end goal: raise the quality of healthcare for all women.

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How to reduce Community Violence,
with Thomas Abt

Founding director of the Violence Reduction Center at the University of Maryland, Thomas Abt, JD,has dedicated his career to developing evidence-informed strategies to reduce Community Violence. In this conversation Thomas walks us through how Community Violence disproportionately clusters in hotspots amongst certain groups of people, but the entire community is impacted by increased taxes, raised insurance, and reduced property value. Through rigorous research, Thomas has found that there are 3 core principles of successful community violence interventions:

• Focus

• Balance

• Fairness

Watch thisConversation, and learn how Thomas Abt effectively approaches the problem of Community Violence.

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How to solve Big Problems

Are kids born in August susceptible to a higher chance of ADHD? Can machine learning help us understand drug side effects? Would combining neuroscience and the legal system bring us closer to the truth?

These are some of the fascinating questions answered in this playlist featuring experts dedicated to solving complicated problems across the fields of neuroscience, general medicine, genetics, and healthcare. Take a look here:

• The profound difference between seeing and looking

• What really happens when you mix medications?

• Why every story is a brain story

• How we’re building the largest family tree

Watch NowWhat do you think?