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Pop-up lecture
Do we still need vaccines?
Vaccines have been lauded as one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century, but in our healthy, affluent, materially-advanced world, are they still needed? In this pop-up lecture, Dr. Joanne Langley discusses how vaccines work, how the nature of infectious disease influences vaccine science, and how research centres such as the Canadian Center for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University are addressing the challenges of infectious diseases in a world of emerging and re-emerging pathogens.
Dr. Joanne Langley is a professor of pediatrics (Division of Infectious Diseases) and community health and epidemiology at Dalhousie University. Dr. Langley currently serves as associate director (Clinical Evaluation Unit) of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology (CCfV), is an investigator in the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN), is a pediatric infectious disease consultant at the IWK Health Centre, and CIHR-GSK Chair in Pediatric Vaccinology. Dr. Langley’s main research interests are in the epidemiology and prevention of respiratory infections, particularly Respiratory Syncytial Virus and influenza.
Date: Monday, October 5
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Location: University Hall, MacDonald Building
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Storify
The reach of Dalhousie's medical school spans the Maritimes, educating more than 50 per cent of the region's doctors and hosting more than 100 teaching sites across the region. Check up on what its faculty, students and staff have been up to this week with our Know Your Dal Storify.
Dean's video
Faculty of Medicine Dean David Anderson answers our questions in this video interview.
Feature story
Five things you didn't know about the Faculty of Medicine
Dating back to 1868, the Faculty of Medicine—colloquially known as Dalhousie Medical School—is home to 22 clinical and basic science departments. And with campuses in Halifax and Saint John, and 100+ teaching sites scattered across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I., Dal’s medical research and clinical learning environments extend across the Maritimes.
Besides training top-notch docs and researchers, there are a few other things you should know about Dalhousie Medical School.
- Its faculty are Maritime Canada’s doctors
- Students are seeing patients from day one
- Every student undertakes a four-year research project
- The school’s research has an economic spin-off effect
- The medical school holds a Guinness World Record...
