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.
Date: 27 August 2025, 11:30
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms 0&1, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Speaker: Professor Tulio de Oliveira (Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University)
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Organisers: Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford), Dr Jane Itzhaki (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute
Part of: Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Jane Itzhaki, Ksenia Ananyeva