Working Together For Public Education On Pandemic Risks: The Scientific Collaboration Of The Smithsonian’s Outbreak Exhibit
In this talk, Sabrina Sholts, the curator of the Smithsonian’s exhibit ‘Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World,’ discussed how she and her team worked with countless experts—from infectious disease physicians like Daniel Lucey (Georgetown University) to expert immunologists and advisors like Anthony Fauci (National Institutes of Health)—to help people understand how novel viruses emerge and spread in our interconnected world.
About the Biological Anthropologist
Sabrina Sholts is a Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. She is the Lead Curator of the Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World exhibition, and a World Economic Forum Young Scientist. As a biological anthropologist, she uses museum collections to study intersections of human, animal, and environmental health in the past and present. She received her PhD in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and completed her postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley in the Department of Integrative Biology and at Stockholm University in the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry.
