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Agenda
Registration
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Venue:
PAHO/WHO
2nd Floor, Room A
525 23rd St. N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20037, USA
Contact us:
HVP
525 23rd St. N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20037
Email
HVP@paho.org
Facsimile
1.202.974.3635
Phone
1.202.974.3247
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), located in Washington D.C., is pleased to sponsor the Conference on Vaccine, Prevention and Public Health: A Vision for the Future, November 25-27, 2002. The Conference is being held as part of PAHO’s centennial celebrations to recognize a century of public health achievements in the Americas of PAHO, its Members States and partners worldwide. Major themes of the Conference include a review by leading experts in their field of the state of the arts in vaccine science and the potential applicability of this new technology over the next 50 years for public health purposes.
Much has happened over these last 30 years - new vaccines are being used to control infectious diseases prevented through vaccination and their impact on disease burden is already being reported. Others are in the pipeline and show great promise. Several vaccine-preventable diseases have been effectively controlled, and some have been eradicated. The PAHO Vaccine Conference, which will be attended by approximately 300 vaccine and immunization experts from throughout the world, will seek to represent the broad spectrum of available knowledge of interest to both, the developing and developed countries. Clinical and laboratory data, epidemiological and field studies, administrative problems at all levels will be presented, and future prospects in these areas will be discussed. Issues related to research and development will span the historical, economic, sociological, and psychological problems involved in the fields of vaccines and immunization.
This mayor event marks a follow up to the "International Conference on the Application of Vaccines Against Viral, Rickettsial, and Bacterial Diseases of Man," sponsored by PAHO in December of 1970. The attendees included leading vaccinologists, epidemiologists, public health officials, and immunization managers from around the world. That conference generated the PAHO Scientific Publication No. 226, which set the stage for several vaccine research and immunization development initiatives, such as the creation of the World Health Organization’s Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), UNICEF’s Universal Childhood Immunization (UCI), the Children’s Vaccine Initiative (CVI), the Inter-agency Coordination Committees (ICC), as well as strengthened public-private sector collaboration that led to the establishment of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).
PAHO was established officially in 1902 and is the oldest health organization in the world. Its mission is to lead strategic collaborative efforts among Member States and other partners to promote equity in health, combat disease, and improve the quality, and lengthen the lives, of the peoples of the Americas. PAHO serves as the Regional Office of the World Health Organization.
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