PLEASE NOTE:
Some or all instruction for all or part of Academic Year 20-21 may be delivered remotely.
Tuition and mandatory fees have been set regardless of the method of instruction and will not be
refunded in the event instruction occurs remotely for any part of the Academic Year.
Improving Equity and Health During COVID-19, a free virtual seminar aimed at discussing promising practices for achieving social justice and health equity goals during a public health emergency.
With enhanced diagnostic tools, public health and medical researchers are discovering new tick-borne disease agents each year, in some cases, uncovering cryptic species that are later found to be human pathogens. In this talk, I will outline historical and contemporary research conducted collaboratively by the California Department of Public Health, University of California, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discover and describe bacteria in ticks that were only recently discovered to cause human disease, such as Rickettsia philipii, the agent of Pacific...
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