Dr. Smith is an internationally recognized speaker on a variety of topics related to infectious diseases and social media. She was an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer (2015-17) and available to speak on the following topics:
Recent speaking engagements have included:
Vaccine denial and the internet: what can microbiologists do? Keynote talk, Ohio Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Athens, OH.
Zoonotic antibiotic resistance: whose responsibility? Midwest Veterinary Conference. Columbus, OH.
Livestock-associated MRSA CC398: a biography. World Conference of Science Journalists meeting. San Francisco, CA.
The real science of zombies: what TV and films get right (and what they get wrong). Rose City Comic Convention, Portland, OR.
A history of zombie pandemics Michigan Tech University, “Undead U” second annual symposium, Houghton, MI (media coverage)
Ebola: Separating fact from fiction Heidelberg University, Tiffin, OH (Media coverage)
Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus in the United States: an overview. Epidemiology and Control of MRSA in China and North America Conference, Beijing, China
A Brief History of Ebola. Association of Health Care Journalists Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA
MRSA Among Animals, Pets, and Link to Human Populations. Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) annual meeting (IDweek), San Francisco, CA
Using social media and the public health setting. IDweek, San Francisco, CA
Pigs, pork and pathogens: MRSA in unexpected places. Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics departmental seminar, Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA
Social Media and Medicine. Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Pigs, Pork, and Pathogens
- Staphyloccocus aureus in Animals
- Science Denial and the Internet
- Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: What Can You Do?
- Ebola and Emerging Diseases: Why We’ll Always Have Pandemics
- Zombies and Infectious Diseases in Popular Culture
Recent speaking engagements have included:
Vaccine denial and the internet: what can microbiologists do? Keynote talk, Ohio Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, Athens, OH.
Zoonotic antibiotic resistance: whose responsibility? Midwest Veterinary Conference. Columbus, OH.
Livestock-associated MRSA CC398: a biography. World Conference of Science Journalists meeting. San Francisco, CA.
The real science of zombies: what TV and films get right (and what they get wrong). Rose City Comic Convention, Portland, OR.
A history of zombie pandemics Michigan Tech University, “Undead U” second annual symposium, Houghton, MI (media coverage)
Ebola: Separating fact from fiction Heidelberg University, Tiffin, OH (Media coverage)
Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus in the United States: an overview. Epidemiology and Control of MRSA in China and North America Conference, Beijing, China
A Brief History of Ebola. Association of Health Care Journalists Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA
MRSA Among Animals, Pets, and Link to Human Populations. Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) annual meeting (IDweek), San Francisco, CA
Using social media and the public health setting. IDweek, San Francisco, CA
Pigs, pork and pathogens: MRSA in unexpected places. Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics departmental seminar, Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA
Social Media and Medicine. Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa