1. Sustainability and the Public’s Health

2. Medicine Public Health

3. How Diseases Spread Urbanization Population: 9 billion people by 2050 Increased air travel Agricultural changes: Food handling practices Forced migration Climate change...heat / precipitation

4. 1918 Pandemic Influenza Killed 50 million people worldwide

10. Climate Impacts Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome 1993 Several years of drought followed by excessive rainfall Increase in rodent population

11. White-footed deer mouse

13. West Nile virus never before seen in the Western hemisphere

15. West Nile Virus 2007: Kern County, CA: Rise in Foreclosures = Abandoned Pools

16. Dengue Fever http://rochester.ynn.com/content/all_news/ finger_lakes/505575/cdc-warns-of- dengue-fever-after-new-cases/

17. Malaria

18. Pandemic Influenza Person-to-Person

20. Nathan Wolfe: Virologist http://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_wolfe_hu nts_for_the_next_aids.htmlhttp://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_wolfe_hu nts_for_the_next_aids.html Why did we let these behaviors continue? Who’s responsibility is it to prevent emerging infectious diseases?