Date: Friday, February 19, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM – 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
The Emerging Infection & Tribal Communities Conference seeks to focus primarily on the emerging outbreaks/ infections in the light of current COVID-19 outbreak. It hopes to foster broad sharing of the challenges, latest scientific, biological, diagnostic, epidemiological, clinical, ecological, and social sciences information and strategies to adopt for future scenarios. This virtual Conference will incorporate both a scientific and a community focus, and will be open to everyone in general and members of Navajo Nation and other Tribal communities of North America in particular without any registration cost.
It will provide an exceptional opportunity to underscore the work which has happened, is ongoing, and is planned to occur, with brave hearts, learned faculty and Community, enthusiastic students/researchers and warrior approach not only in Navajo Nation or Tribal communities but throughout North America. Expected invitees/presenters and participants of the event will include individuals from:
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Navajo Nation Tribal Epidemiology Center;
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
American Society for Microbiology Arizona Chapter
Biosafety behaviour, USA
Indian Health Services
Tribal Universities, Colleges, organizations of US and Canada
Navajo Nation Community Members and Diné College students