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CONSERVATION MEDICINE

 DISCUSSION GROUP

Discussion group will meet on the following Mondays from 2-4 pm in Wilson Hall rm 105 (except Feb 17 meeting, which will be on Tuesday in the Walter Hall conference room). Topics cover a diversity of contemporary issues in Conservation Medicine and were selected for broad interdisciplinary appeal. In many cases, topics are directly connected to talks in the guest speaker seminar series. Discussions are informal and all members of the Brown community are welcome to attend.

FEBRUARY
2/2	Organizational Meeting and Introduction to Conservation Medicine
	Readings:
		1. Conservation Medicine: Tackling the root causes of emerging infectious diseases and seeking practical solutions. (PDF)
2/18	Global Patterns and Environmental Drivers of Emerging Infectious Diseases (Location: Walter Hall conference room)
	Readings:
		1. Host range and emerging and reemerging pathogens. (PDF)
		2. Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. (PDF)
MARCH
3/2	Disease in Top Predators
	Readings:
		1. Climate extremes promote fatal co-infections during canine distemper epidemics in African lions.(PDF)
		2. Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease: lessons for conservation biology. (PDF)
3/16	Effects of Disease on Biodiversity (and Vice Versa)
	Readings:
		1. Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife - threats to biodiversity and human health. (PDF)
		2. Is disease increasing or decreasing, and does it impact or maintain biodiversity? (PDF)
3/30	The Coastal Environment and Human Health
		1. The coastal environment and human health: Microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs (PDF) 2. Diseases and the conservation of marine biodiversity (PDF)
APRIL
4/13	Bushmeat Hunting and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
	Readings:
		1. Biological and Cultural Anthropology of a Changing Tropical Forest: A Fruitful Collaboration across Subfields. (PDF)
		2. Bushmeat Hunting, Deforestation, and Prediction of Zoonotic Disease Emergence. (PDF)

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