# Event Details

- **Event Name**: June WAC Lunch - American Infectious Disease
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 11:30 am
- **Event Description**: Join us for another great speaker lunch on Wednesday, June 24 from 11:30-1:15 at the Ortiz Center : 
The Border is the Bellwether
South Texas and the Next Chapter of American Infectious Disease with Dr. Sohail Rao.

Reserve tickets by noon Monday, June 22, 2026 at:
https://worldaffairstexas.com/event/the-border-is-the-bellwether/

Only a limited number of tickets are available at the door with cash or check on the day of the event. 

For ticket and membership information, please visit our website: www.worldaffairstexas.com 

Table sponsors for this event, and forthcoming events, are most welcome and deeply appreciated!

Dr. Sohail Rao of INNOCAVORE Center for Research & Biotechnology will draw on the his experience leading clinical research operations in the Rio Grande Valley during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period in which a small academic enterprise was scaled into a network of more than 90 active investigational protocols at the height of the crisis. The Valley was, for a stretch of the summer of 2020, the most lethal county cluster per capita in the U.S. The lessons drawn from that experience, hospital overflow, vaccine hesitancy in mixed-status communities, multidrug-resistant infections, the limits of telemedicine in border colonias, and the structural fragility of frontline rural healthcare, represent, the speaker will argue, the truest preview now available of how the next pandemic will unfold on the ground.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/corpus-christi/june-wac-lunch-american-infectious-disease/200030259120239
- **Event Categories**: Nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Corpus Christi
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Ortiz International Center
- **lat**: 27.811636861362
- **long**: -97.397437215386
- **full address**: Ortiz International Center, 402 Harbor Dr,Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is June WAC Lunch - American Infectious Disease being held?
  - **A:** June WAC Lunch - American Infectious Disease takes place on Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 11:30 am to Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 11:30 am at Ortiz International Center, 402 Harbor Dr,Corpus Christi, Texas, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing June WAC Lunch - American Infectious Disease?
  - **A:** June WAC Lunch - American Infectious Disease is organized by World Affairs Council of South Texas.

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