Public Health Grand Rounds February 24 11 AM

The Loyola Public Health Program is pleased to present Dr. Justin Harbison as a guest speaker on February 24 to discuss water quality and health.  Dr. Harbison is presently an adjunct faculty member for Loyola University’s Biology Department.   He previously served as a Public Health Biologist for the State of California’s Vector-borne Disease Section and completed a Ph.D. in Public Health from UCLA. He also holds a Master’s degree in Entomology and Nematology from the University of Florida.  He has experience in monitoring animal and arthropod vectors of medically important diseases including plague, hantavirus, and malaria and is particularly interested in the association between water quality efforts and vector mosquitoes.  He recently published in Stormwater magazine..see link.  http://www.stormh2o.com/september-2010/fight-stormwater-mosquitoes.aspx

Safe water is a tenet of health.  We hope you can hear Dr. Harbison discuss water quality and health at the February 24th Public Health Grand Rounds.

Grand rounds are held in the Maguire building room 3347 at 11 am.