First talk of our TEDxTt 2009 event. Enjoy!

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Name: Jennifer Gardy

Talk Title: “Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak”

Notes: UBC Alumni (Faculty of Science, 2000).

Topic: Dr. Jennifer Gardy, an alumnus speaker at the event, is co-leading the new genome research lab at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). She is also known as Nerd Girl from her Globe and Mail blog of the same name. In her talk, Gardy shared how advances in technology have provided increased collaboration on scientific research and scholarly publications — what she labelled as public health 2.0.

For example, she showed how one publication had 36 authors. After leading the audience through the origins of H1N1, she stated how it only took five days from the sequencing of the virus to the first open-source paper. Gardy ended her talk emphasizing how students should be willing to explore the benefits of Open Access publications, collaborative research, and emerging technologies. (From Phillip Jeffrey’s Macleans’ oncampus blog)

Links:
http://www.bccdc.ca/
http://www.globecampus.ca/blogs/nerd-girl/
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2009/10/22/ubc-tedxterry-talks/
http://terry.ubc.ca/tedxterrytalks.

Filmed by Craig Ross at TEDx Terry talks 2009 (October 3rd, 2009). Video edited by David Ng.