Will the next pandemic be caused by H5N1 influenza?
This seminar will be held in the Richard Doll Building lecture theatre
The world is currently experiencing a panzootic of H5N1 influenza. Wild birds have carried the virus across all continents and an unprecedented number of mammalian species have been infected including humans. What will it take for this virus to go pandemic, and does the introduction of the virus into dairy herds in USA bring that one step closer?
Wendy will discuss the current knowledge on host range barriers that protect us from more frequent zoonoses and pandemic from bird flu, and show how we can use this scientific knowledge to risk assess the current situation.
Date:
2 June 2025, 13:00
Venue:
Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details:
Lecture theatre
Speaker:
Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Organising department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Organiser:
Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Organiser contact email address:
alison.lewis@ndph.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Part of:
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Alison Lewis,
Angela Brueggemann
