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Cooperative Extension’s Collective for Health Equity and Well-Being is a community of Extension personnel and their partners united by their shared commitment to advancing health equity and well-being. Members work together to support the implementation of Cooperative Extension’s National Framework for Health Equity and Well-Being (2021) to ensure that all people can be as healthy as they can be.

Your COVID-19 questions, answered: CSU Expert Q&A set for March 18

 

The Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging, in partnership with CSU Extension and Senior Access Points of Larimer County, will hold its eighth webinar in the COVID-19 Expert Panel Series on Thursday, March 18 at 12 p.m. MT via Zoom. Members of the Colorado State University community and the public are invited to attend.

As the coronavirus pandemic evolves, the abundance of news reporting and public health recommendations can be overwhelming. The COVID-19 Expert Panel Series was created to provide clarity to the emerging pandemic by giving CSU faculty experts a platform to answer community questions about public health safety, vaccines, virus transmissibility, mental health strategies, travel, caregiving, and more.

Panelists include CSU faculty members in gerontology, infectious disease, biosafety, mental health, food safety, and geriatric medicine.

Speakers for March 18 panel:

  • Mark Zabel, professor and associate director of the Prion Research Center in the Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, and Research Associate Dean in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
  • Marisa Bunning, professor and extension specialist in food safety in the Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition
  • Deana Davalos, professor and licensed psychologist in the Dept. of Psychology, director of the Aging Clinic of the Rockies and associate director of the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging
  • Bob Ellis, emeritus professor and Director Emeritus of the CSU Biosafety Office
  • John Volckens, professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Energy Development and Health at CSU
  • Nicole Ehrhart, Director of the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging at CSU; professor in the Dept. of Clinical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Ross M. Wilkins MD Limb Preservation Foundation University Chair in Musculoskeletal Biology and Oncology
  • Rebecca Jackson, medical director at Columbine Health Systems and a geriatric medicine specialist

Questions may be submitted prior to the webinar by emailing ali.murphy@colostate.edu.

Attendees may register for the March 18 webinar in advance by visiting this link.

This session will be recorded for later viewing. Prior webinars can be found on the Center for Healthy Aging’s website.

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