Professor Harvey Rubin will lecture on Global Governance Structure for Infectious Diseases and lead discussion on this global challenging issue at the Penn Wharton China Center.

(As we have limited seats, registration will be on a first-come first-serve basis)
For registration, please send email to Betty He at: yuping@pwcc.upenn.edu
Prof. Harvey Rubin has been invited to give a keynote address at the Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Public Health Emergency Risk and Strategy Research and Management in Beijing on July 24th and We are privileged to invite Prof. Rubin to come to Penn Wharton China Center to give a lecture on the need for a global governance structure for infectious diseases to meet the risks to global development and stability on the afternoon of July24th from 3:30 to 6:00pm.

Prof. Rubin’s lecture will cover the proposed governance structure, which includes four interdependent factors: the need for more basic and translational research, the need for fair and equable development and distribution of drugs and vaccines, harmonized best laboratory practices and knowledge sharing and surveillance using real-time, interoperable centralized databases. This will touch on novel funding schemes including the role of public private partnerships, accessing capital markets and the role of insurance and risk mitigation. The current MERS, SARS Ebola and highly resistant bacterial infections will be used as example in his lecture. Difficulties on establishing any global organization will also be touched in his lecture.