Population Health Spotlight Series - Dr. Demetre Daskalakis

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

"Infectious Disease: Prevention, Prediction, and Perspectives" is the theme of the Dornsife School of Public Health's 2024-25 Population Health Spotlight Series.

Speaker: Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

Title Talk: Public health preparedness, lessons learned from recent pandemics and epidemics

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Speaker Bio:

As Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, leads CDC’s efforts to detect, prevent, and respond to vaccine-preventable and respiratory infectious disease threats. Daskalakis has been recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in HIV prevention and has focused much of his career on the treatment and prevention of HIV and other STIs as an activist physician with a focus on LGBTQIA+ communities. Prior to joining NCIRD, Dr. Daskalakis served as the Director of the Division of HIV Prevention in CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. He also served as the Deputy Coordinator of the White House’s Mpox Response, where he successfully led vaccination and public education efforts that helped to halt the advancement of the virus.

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Contact Information

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dc3482@drexel.edu