Roger Detels will focus on how scientists have taken advantage of opportunities to advance our understanding of how diseases develop as well as the shaping of public health policy.
The event is aimed primarily at UCLA faculty, staff and students and their families who are concerned about COVID-19 in the Black and Latino communities.
Sonam Kachru, an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, will discuss the many meanings of Buddhist philosophy in South Asian history.
Nianogo, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, received an award from the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust.