COVID-19 through the lens of my experience with the HIV/AIDS pandemic | Trudy Larson | TEDxReno
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Trudy Larson |
TEDxReno
• June 2020
In the fall of 1981, Dr. Trudy Larson was an Infectious Disease Fellow at UCLA on the front line as the HIV/AIDS pandemic started in the United States. In this talk recorded on June 15, 2020, Dr. Larson discusses how the lessons she learned from that pandemic inform her perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Larson reminds us that while we don’t know everything, we do know some very important things about how to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Dr. Trudy Larson is Professor and founding Dean of the School of Community Health Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her primary areas of interest have been HIV/AIDS and immunizations. Dr. Larson is past chair of the Nevada Donor Network Board, oversees the Organ and Tissue Donor program at the UNR School of Medicine, is a board member at Northern Nevada HOPES, is active on the Nevada Public Health Foundation board and currently serves on the Governor’s Medical Advisory Team for COVID-19. Dr. Larson received her medical degree from the University of California, Irvine. She completed a Pediatric residency at the University of California Davis Medical Center followed by a fellowship in pediatric infectious disease at UCLA and has been at the University of Nevada, Reno since 1984.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx