Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity (2008)

Date and Time

October 16, 2008
07:00PM - 08:00PM EDT

Lecture & book signing by Dr. Eric Chivian and Dr. Edward O. Wilson

Lead editor and author of Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, Eric Chivian, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and Professor Edward O. Wilson  discussed the importance of biodiversity to human health—from medicines, biomedical research, infectious diseases, and food production to the ecosystem services that support life on Earth.