BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Library Market//iCal Export//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk with Sabrina Sholts UID:14988 DTSTAMP:20260305T144800Z DTSTART:20250204T190000Z DTEND:20250204T200000Z LOCATION: DESCRIPTION:Click HERE to register.Join us for this enlightening present ation with Smithsonian curator Sabrina Sholts as she talks about how the v ery fact of being human increases our pandemic risks—and gives us the po wer to save ourselves. The COVID-19 pandemic won't be our last—bec ause what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. That is th e uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of The Human Disease: How We Cr eate Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs, which travels through hist ory and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are an inescapab le threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of disciplines—from medic ine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, a nd neuroscience—as well as a unique expertise in public education about emerging infectious diseases, biological anthropologist Sabrina Sholts ide ntifies the human traits and tendencies that double as pandemic liabilitie s, from the anatomy that defines us to the misperceptions that divide us.  Weaving together a wealth of personal experiences, scientific findings, a nd historical stories, Sholts brings dramatic and much-needed clarity to o ne of the most profound challenges we face as a species. Though the COVID- 19 pandemic looms large in Sholts's account, it is, in fact, just one of the many infectious disease events explored in The Human Disease. With its expansive, evolutionary perspective, the book explains how humanity w ill continue to face new pandemics because humans cause them, by the ways that we are and the things that we do. By recognizing our risks, Sholts su ggests, we can take actions to reduce them. When the next pandemic happens , and how bad it becomes, are largely within our highly capable human hand s—and will be determined by what we do with our extraordinary human brai ns. A presentation you don’t want to miss, register now!About the Author :Sabrina Sholts is a biological anthropologist and Curator of Biological A nthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History ( NMNH). Her research explores intersections of human, animal, and environme ntal health in the past and present. She received her PhD in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley in In tegrative Biology and at Stockholm University in Biophysics and Biochemist ry. Sholts has published widely in academic journals including American Jo urnal of Biological Anthropology, Environmental Health Perspectives, JAMA, PNAS, Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and Nature Ecology & Evolution, and written for popular audiences in Scientific A merican and Smithsonian Magazine. She was named as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist in 2019. In addition, she was Lead Curator of the exhibiti on Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World at the NMNH (2018-2022) and a scientific advisor for the related exhibition Épidémies: Prendre soin du vivant at the musée des Confluences in Lyon, France (2024-2025).Click H ERE for upcoming Virtual Speaker Events.Click HERE for recordings of pa st Virtual Speaker Events. URL:https://camaspl.librarycalendar.com/event/virtual-author-talk-sabrina- sholts-14988 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR