Led by the Harvard Global Health Institute, Outbreak Week was a Harvard University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe.

This flagship event, sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School on Sept. 28, focused on Preventing Epidemics in a Connected World. A panel discussion on Understanding and Mitigating Risks, featured opening video remarks by Larry Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; President Emeritus, Harvard University.

Panelists included: Mike T. Osterholm, Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) all at the University of Minnesota; Regents Professor; McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health;
Professor, Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science & Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Dennis Carroll, Director of the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Global Health Security and Development Unit
Hillary Carter, Director for Countering Biological Threats, National Security Council
Mosoka Fallah, Deputy Director General/Technical Services, National Public Health Institute of Liberia