Pasado’s Safe Haven Speaker Series

Join Pasado’s Safe Haven for our virtual Speaker Series where we feature inspiring change-makers and thought leaders who bring diverse insights into the human/animal connection and how it impacts our daily lives.

This Month’s Featured Speaker: Dr. Aysha Akhtar, a double Board-certified neurologist and public health specialist, will lead a thought-provoking discussion on the link between animals and public health. Animals living on food-production farms are one of the top sources of communicable diseases in the world, and the World Health Organization recently confirmed that COVID-19 likely came from an animal. Are we prepared for what might come next?

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About Dr. Aysha Akhtar: Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H., is a double Board-certified neurologist and preventive medicine/public health specialist focused on demonstrating how there is a mutual benefit to both humans and animals when animals are protected. Dr. Akhtar is the President and CEO of the Center for Contemporary Sciences, working on replacing animals testing with effective human-specific research techniques. She is also a U.S veteran previously serving as Deputy Director of the U.S. Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program and as a Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps assisting with national public health emergencies. For a decade, Dr. Akhtar was a Medical Officer at the Food and Drug Administration developing national preparedness strategies for public health threats. She is the author of two books is the author of the two books, Our Symphony With Animals. On Health, Empathy and Our Shared Destinies and Animals and Public Health and published in peer-reviewed journals including Lancet, Pediatrics, Journal of Public Health Policy and Reviews in the Neurosciences.