National Library of Medicine | 2004 Leiter Lecture: Plagues of the 21st Century - A Communications Challenge @NLMNIH | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Each year, the National Library of Medicine and Medical Library Association jointly sponsor the Joseph Leiter Lecture, whose purpose is to stimulate intellectual liaison between the two organizations on topics relating to biomedical communication.
New and emergent diseases -- AIDS, mad cow disease, SARS -- are an increasingly frequent occurrence. The explosive growth of often destitute urban populations and the unprecedented growth of travel portend the development and spead of other infectious agents in numbers and at a pace hitherto unknown. To know sooner and more explicitly what these challenges are and to have capabilities for dealing with them is a new challenge with potentially serious implications.
Donald A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean Emeritus
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Resident Scholar
Center for Biosecurity
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Author: Donald A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
@JohnsHopkinsMedicine #medicalhistory #aids #sars
Each year, the National Library of Medicine and Medical Library Association jointly sponsor the Joseph Leiter Lecture, whose purpose is to stimulate intellectual liaison between the two organizations on topics relating to biomedical communication.
New and emergent diseases -- AIDS, mad cow disease, SARS -- are an increasingly frequent occurrence. The explosive growth of often destitute urban populations and the unprecedented growth of travel portend the development and spead of other infectious agents in numbers and at a pace hitherto unknown. To know sooner and more explicitly what these challenges are and to have capabilities for dealing with them is a new challenge with potentially serious implications.
Donald A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean Emeritus
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Resident Scholar
Center for Biosecurity
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Author: Donald A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
@JohnsHopkinsMedicine #medicalhistory #aids #sars
![La Bandera Verde: Programa Rural Pro Familia [The Green Flag] (Airlie Productions, 1974)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YGomks4mGJI/hqdefault.jpg "La Bandera Verde: Programa Rural Pro Familia [The Green Flag] (Airlie Productions, 1974)
In the rural, coffee-growing region of Colombia, Profamilia partners with local entities such as the Coffee Growers Association and the Catholic church to demonstrate the efficacy and validity of family planning methods. The homemakers, farmers, and children of a rural town discuss among themselves the benefits of these methods, and how to procure them from their local shops or designated sellers.
Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918401887306676
Learn more about the National Library of Medicines historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films
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