Securing Healthy Populations in a New Era of Global Immunization
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While the world has seen tremendous improvement in the availability of life-saving vaccines, new, targeted approaches are needed to address remaining gaps in immunization coverage. Among pressing challenges are completing polio eradication; reaching the disenfranchised, including those in fragile and disordered settings; supporting governments as they develop their own sustainable immunization systems, and; addressing vaccine hesitancy. The World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the U.S. government, and other global immunization organizations are striving to meet these demands as they develop new strategies and programmatic enhancements for the next decade of global immunization. If successful, these advances have the potential to significantly enhance global stability and health security.   The CSIS Global Health Policy Center will host a major conference on September 27 that will examine the innovations that will shape this future. The conference will feature keynote presentations by Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of Gavi; Kate O’Brien, Director of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals at the WHO; and Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF. Registration will open at 8:30am. Light refreshments will be served in the morning and lunch will be served at 11:30am. J. Stephen Morrison Senior Vice President and Director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center   Kate O'Brien Director, Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals, World Health Organization Seth Berkley Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Moderated by: Nellie Bristol Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center   Edna Yolani Batres Presidential Adviser of  Health, Former Minister of Health, Republic of Honduras Muhammad Ali Pate Global Director, Health, Nutrition, and Population, World Bank, and Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF) Kerry Pelzman Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development Anne Schuchat (RADM, USPHS, RET) Principal Deputy Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Moderated by: Amanda Glassman Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development Henrietta Fore Executive Director, UNICEF   Emilie Karafillakis Research Fellow, Vaccine Confidence Project, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Rina Dey Communication Director, CORE Group Polio Project, India David Broniatowski Associate Professor, George Washington University   with a video message from: Congressman Adam B. Schiff (D-CA-28) Moderated by: J. Stephen Morrison Senior Vice President and Director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center Nahid Bhadelia Medical Director, Special Pathogens Unit, Boston University School of Medicine Rebecca Martin Director, Center for Global Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Violaine Mitchell Interim Director, Vaccine Delivery, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a video message from: Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) Moderated by: Katherine Bliss Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center Nellie Bristol Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center   This event is made possible through the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  
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