Events: detail
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
- Speaker:
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Dr. Eric Chivian and Dr. E. O. Wilson, Harvard University
- Starts:
- October 16, 2008 at 07:00 pm
- Ends:
- October 16, 2008 at 08:00 pm
- Location:
- Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA. 02138
- Maps:
Description
Sustaining Life (Oxford University Press) is the first book to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health. Lead editor and author Eric Chivian, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and Professor E. O. Wilson, who wrote the book’s forward, will discuss the importance of biodiversity to human health—from medicines, biomedical research, infectious diseases, and food production to the ecosystem services that support life on Earth.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Free with regular museum admission.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Museum staff
- Phone:
- 617.495.3045
- Website:
- Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
