This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.

COVID 19: A Conversation with Public Health Experts

UNLV researchers, medical investigator to discuss coronavirus pandemic March 30; event to be livestreamed

A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

What

UNLV and the Southern Nevada Health District to host virtual discussion on COVID-19.

When

Monday, March 30 at 10 a.m.

Where

The discussion will be livestreamed through UNLV-TV and available on UNLV's coronavirus website. It will also stream live on the Las Vegas Review-Journal website (reviewjournal.com) and air live on KUNV Radio (91.5 FM) and Cox/YurView Las Vegas Channel 14 and 1014HD. Rebroadcast will be available on Vegas PBS (KLVX-TV 10) at 9 p.m. on March 30 and throughout the month of April on Cox/YurView Las Vegas Ch. 14 and 1014HD.

Details

Nevada is just one of the many states that has taken steps to minimize the risk and spread of COVID-19 as cases increase across the state and the country. Schools have moved to remote instruction, non-essential businesses are temporarily closed, and most residents are now at home. 

With public health at the forefront in Nevada and worldwide, accurate, scientifically-based information is needed now more than ever. 

At 10 a.m. on Monday, March 30, experts from the UNLV School of Public Health and Southern Nevada Health District will share what you need to know about COVID-19, based on the science of this and other infectious diseases. They will share their expertise on how to minimize your risks, how to slow transmission, and where we go from here.

The discussion will feature:

  • Dr. Brian Labus, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the UNLV School of Public Health
  • Dr. Francisco S. Sy, Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health at the UNLV School of Public Health
  • Dr. Vit Kraushaar, Medical Investigator at the Southern Nevada Health District Office of Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance

As infectious disease epidemiologists, professors Sy and Labus have decades of experience working on the front lines of public health issues at the local and national levels, including responding to the SARS outbreak in 2003. Dr. Kraushaar is an emergency medicine physician and epidemiologist who joined the Southern Nevada Health District as a medical investigator in 2018. Shawn Gerstenberger, professor and dean of the UNLV School of Public Health, will moderate the discussion. 

Topics:

coronavirus, health and medicine

Campus Units:

Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies,  School of Public Health,  Greenspun College of Urban Affairs,  Office of Community Engagement

Related Experts:

Shawn Gerstenberger ,  Brian Labus

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