Science & Technology

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ) protects U.S. communities from the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases by anticipating, preventing, detecting, and responding to public health threats. The emergence of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic has prompted the CDC to request an external assessment of the role of DGMQ and the federal quarantine stations to mitigate the risk of onward communicable disease transmission given the changes in the global environment, including large increases in international travel, threats posed by emerging infections, and the movement of animals and cargo.

Rusty Braziel

Join C.Huie Lin, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital, and his guests, as they discuss their first segment on what your doctor needs to know about congenital heart disease.

About this course In the past years, we have witnessed unprecedented disruption. Climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and global protests against racial injustice all point to a pressing need for societal renewal. To catalyze this renewal we need to learn not from the past, but from a future wanting to be born. How to activate our capacity to lean into the emerging future may well be the most important leadership challenge of our time. How do you cultivate curiosity, compassion and courage in the face of prejudice, anger and fear? How do you step into action for the well-being of all? This course is an introduction to a method called Theory U, developed at MIT, for leading such change in business, government, and civil society contexts worldwide. u.lab will guide you in applying Theory U to an issue that matters to you, building your capacity to lead transformative change in the process. You will do so with fellow change-makers locally and around the world. Join us as we co-pioneer new approaches to today’s most important social and environmental challenges.

On December 10 2021 at 14:00-15:00 EST (19:00-20:00 UTC) the Internet Society Interplanetary Networking Special Interest group (IPNSIG) hosts a webinar 'Recent Firsts in DTN Research'. IPNSIG member Dr. Lara Suzuki has been working on a number of firsts in Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN). In addition to obvious applications to space exploration, this work will also be foundational in scaling terrestrial implementations of DTN networks that will allow realistic testing of network management and network security functions. SPEAKER Dr Larissa (Lara) Suzuki, Head of Data and AI, Google Cloud MODERATOR Vint Cerf, VP /Chief Internet Evangelist, Google SPEAKER BIOS https://bit.ly/3Ekdizr LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/dtnfirsts PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3Gag6zz REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE) TWITTER #dtn @ipnsig @LaraSuzuki @vgcerf @google @NASAJPL SIMULCASTS https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ (AI Captions) ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/dtnfirsts LINKS https://ipnsig.org https://larissasuzuki.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210415024844/http://ipnsig.org/2020/12/17/connecting-clouds-with-dtn/ https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/technology/disruption_tolerant_networking_overview