Thwarting Disease Epidemics and Pandemics With Emerging Technologies

Emerging infectious diseases (e.g., SARS, MERS, Ebola, and Zika) pose significant human health, economic, and security risks. Advances in engineering and computing technologies can be effectively used to mitigate or reduce the effect of such outbreaks. This session focuses on current technologies available to thwart disease outbreaks and science policies that governments should adopt to contain outbreaks.