COVID-19, climate change, and global crises among topics at NAM Annual Meeting - Oct. 18-19

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) virtual 50th Annual Meeting will include a scientific symposium on Monday, Oct. 19 -- Confronting Urgent Threats to Human Health and Society: COVID-19 and Climate Change. Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will give a keynote address at 11:15 a.m. EDT. The following sessions will also be webcast live.