Ghost Map Then and Now: How Medical Detectives Are Tracking Today’s Biggest Killers

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This event is a discussion with Dr. David Barker, who will discuss the current state of epidemiology and disease mapping. To discuss the book Ghost Map, please see the Citizens Read event two days prior.

City Club’s Agora committee welcomes Professor David Barker of OHSU and the University of Southampton who will lead a discussion of epidemiology yesterday and today. This event springs off from the Multnomah County Library “Everybody Reads” book for 2010, The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. This book tells the tale of Dr. John Snow who, in 1854, risked his life to create a map that demonstrated how cholera spread and led to dramatic improvements in urban public health.

Building on the legacy of Dr. Snow, speaker Dr. Barker uses modern mapping techniques in ground-breaking research that establishes
connections between fetal health and adult chronic diseases.

The panel will also include guest speaker Dr. Mel Kohn, DHS Assistant Director for the State Public Health Division, Deborah Lewinsohn, M.D, Assistant Professor at the OHSU Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and State Health Officer and moderator Margie Boule, columnist for The Oregonian. To learn more about all of these speakers, click here (PDF).

Co-sponsored by OHSU and the South Waterfront Community Association.