Meeting the Challenges of Global Polio Eradication
The number of wild poliovirus cases worldwide is significantly reduced compared to last year, as Pakistan improves its immunization reach and Africa goes more than a year since its last reported case. Nonetheless, substantial challenges remain to global eradication, including newly reported cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus in Ukraine and Mali. Join the CSIS Global Health Policy Center on September 28 as it welcomes keynote speakers Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Chair of the global Polio Oversight Board, and Sir Liam Donaldson, Chair of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s Independent Monitoring Board. They and other top experts will discuss current and future eradication challenges, including the ambitious vaccine switch needed to address vaccine-derived polio cases. Panelists also will explore plans to transition polio-related assets and knowledge to national health systems and other health priorities as well as measures to address political instability and insecurity hampering vaccination efforts.
Conference Agenda
Welcoming Remarks
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
Opening Keynote
Dr. Thomas Frieden
Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Luncheon Keynote
Sir Liam Donaldson
Chairman, Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Panel 1: Transitioning Polio Program Assets
Steve Cochi
Senior Advisor, Global Immunization Division, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Andrew Etsano
Incident Manager, National Polio Emergency Operations Center, Nigeria
Robert Oelrichs
Senior Health Specialist, Health, Nutirtion, and Population Global Practice, World Bank
Nata Menabde
Executive Director, World Health Organization Office at the United Nations
Moderator:
Nellie Bristol
Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
Panel 2: The Polio Vaccine Switch
Michel Zaffran
Coordinator, Expanded Program on Immunization, World Health Organization
Jon Andrus
Executive Vice President, the Sabin Vaccine Institute
Stephen Sosler
Immunization Technical Advisor, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Moderator:
Heidi Larson
Senior Lecturer, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Panel 3: Polio and Security
Muhammad Pate
Former Nigerian Minister of State for Health
Elias Durry
Senior Emergency Advisor on Polio for EMRO, World Health Organization
Hamid Jafari
Director, Polio Operations and Research, World Health Organization
Moderator:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
Closing Remarks
Nellie Bristol
Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
