Thursday, April 15, 2021

Dr. Michael Osterholm

SPECIAL JOINT MEETING - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

--TO OUR MEMBERS, THIS MEETING WILL BE IN LIEU OF OUR TUESDAY, APRIL 13 MEETING--
 
Eden Prairie AM Rotary Club will join the Eden Prairie Noon Rotary Club to get the latest COVID-19 updates from a renowned epidemiologist, Dr. Michael Osterholm. Tom Thorfinnson, Chief Strategy Officer at Rotary International, will discuss RI COVID-19 global initiatives. Mark Weber, Executive Director of the Eden Prairie Community Foundation, will provide updates on local COVID-19 relief efforts.

Dr. Osterholm is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota.

In November 2020, Dr. Osterholm was appointed to President-elect Joe Biden's 13-member Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. From June 2018 through May 2019, he served as a Science Envoy for Health Security on behalf of the US Department of State. He is also on the Board of Regents at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

He is the author of the New York Times best-selling 2017 book, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, in which he not only details the most pressing infectious disease threats of our day but lays out a nine-point strategy on how to address them, with preventing a global flu pandemic at the top of the list.

If you have already registered you will receive information to access the Zoom session prior to the event. Register here as a guest.