Climate change and emerging infectious diseases


Please note that this talk is in-person only.

Professor Tulio de Oliveira has more than 20 years’ experience responding to infectious disease outbreaks including HIV, hepatitis B and C, chikungunya, dengue, SARS-CoV-2, zika and yellow fever virus. His research focuses on applying genomic data to improve disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and outbreak response. He played a critical role in identifying and tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants during the COVID-19 pandemic through CERI and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform. Professor de Oliveira will talk about the work of CERI and CLIMADE, a global consortium focused on developing knowledge, surveillance tools and adequate interventions to decrease the impact of climate amplified diseases and epidemics.