Environmental pressures are one factor in the increased probability of pandemics
Joanne Liu听(MDCM'91, IMHL'14, DSc'16) is no stranger to health emergencies. The physician and former International President of M茅decins sans Fronti猫res is leading 海角社区鈥檚 efforts to prepare for future health emergencies. As the director of the Pandemic and Health Emergency Readiness Lab, Liu is seeking to develop solutions to current crises and prepare for future ones. There is an acceleration of local epidemics becoming pandemics, and that is somewhat linked to pressure on our environment, Liu told Desautels Prof. Karl Moore in an interview for Forbes.com. According to one recent published, the yearly probability of such extreme epidemics could increase up to threefold in the coming decades.
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