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.
Breakfast and Registration - 8:30 AM
WELCOMING REMARKS - 9:00 am
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
OPENING PLENARY SESSION: THE NEW ERA OF GLOBAL IMMUNIZATION - 9:10-10:10 am
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
PANEL I: A Renewed focus on vaccine equity - 10:15-11:30 am
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
video keynote - 11:50 am
Henrietta Fore
Executive Director, UNICEF
PANEL II: restoring trust in vaccines - 12:00-1:15 pm
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
PANEL III: Global Health Security and Vaccination in Disordered Settings - 1:20-2:30 pm
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
CLOSING REMARKS - 2:30 pm
Nellie Bristol
Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
