{"id":9983,"date":"2016-05-02T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/gwach\/?p=9983"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:55:06","slug":"preparing-for-an-emerging-zika-virus-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2016\/05\/02\/preparing-for-an-emerging-zika-virus-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for an Emerging Zika Virus Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Join us for an expert panel drawn from public health, medicine, and bioengineering to discuss what we know, what we don&#8217;t know, and how to prepare<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The University of Washington Global Center for the Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh) is pleased to host an expert panel discussion to disseminate up-to-date information about Zika virus, its public health impact locally and globally, and what the general public and health care professionals need to know about preventing infection and minimizing the risk of birth defects due to Zika virus infection in pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event Details<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, May 6, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00-5:00PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hogness Auditorium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Health Sciences Building, UW Medical Center<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This panel discussion is open to the public and seeks to provide factual information to the general community as well as to health care professionals and researchers.<\/p>\n<p>We have assembled a panel of experts to address topics including the public health response to Zika virus, infection control measures, implications of Zika virus infection in pregnancy, and current and future approaches to diagnosing Zika virus infection.<\/p>\n<p>The expert panel will include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffery Duchin<\/strong>, MD<\/p>\n<p>Health Officer of Public Health, Seattle &amp; King County Professor, University of Washington<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Lynch<\/strong>, MD MPH<\/p>\n<p>Medical Director of Harborview Medical Center Infection Control Associate Professor, University of Washington<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghayda Mirzaa<\/strong>, MD<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Children&#8217;s Research Institute, Center for Integrative Brain Science, Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alyssa Stephenson-Famy<\/strong>, MD<\/p>\n<p>Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist, Assistant Professor,\u00a0University of Washington<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Yager<\/strong>, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Professor, Bioengineering Department Chair University of Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an expert panel drawn from public health, medicine, and bioengineering to discuss what we know, what we don&#8217;t know, and how to prepare The University of Washington Global Center for the Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh) is pleased to host an expert panel discussion to disseminate up-to-date information&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2016\/05\/02\/preparing-for-an-emerging-zika-virus-epidemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[52,53],"class_list":["post-9983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-talks-and-events","tag-panel-discussion","tag-zika-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18592,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions\/18592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}