Why children die and what we can do about it

Guest speaker Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research involves novel surveillance strategies, improved collaboration between field epidemiologists and infectious disease modelers, and emerging and vaccine preventable disease transmission and prevention. Emily is Co-Director of Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance in Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Society for Public Health’s faculty co-lead for the Surveillance and Outbreak Response Team.