How Protecting Wildlife Can Help to Prevent Pandemics

The Saint Louis Zoo in collaboration with the Living Earth Collaborative invite you to an informative webinar.

As the coronavirus pandemic illustrates, the fate of humanity and nature are inextricably linked. Covid-19 is not the first epidemic disease to emerge from bad environmental practices to infect humans, and if we don’t change the way we treat nature, it won’t be the last. Join our discussion with leading Saint Louis scientists to understand how diseases arise in nature and jump to humans, and what we can do to keep it from happening again.

Moderator:
Jonathan Losos, PhD, Director, Living Earth Collaborative, and William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor of Biology

Presenters:
Dave Wang, PhD, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Pathology & Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Lisa Kelley PhD, Director of Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute
Sharon Deem DVM, Ph.D., Dipl ACZM - Director of Saint Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine