PneumoALERT

Bulletin of GAVI's PneumoADIP at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
PneumoADIP: Pneumococcal Vaccines Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan

September 9, 2009

New Data on the Burden of Hib and Pneumococcal Disease Worldwide


Fri., Sept. 11, 2009
11:30 am-1 pm
Global Health Council
1111 19th Street, NW, Suite 1120
Washington, D.C.

Lunch will be provided

Please join PneumoADIP and the Hib Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Health Organization and the Global Health Council for a briefing on new data to be published in The Lancet on the global, regional and country-specific burden of Haemophilus-influenzae type b and pneumococcal disease, the two leading causes of childhood pneumonia.  Experts will detail their methodology and findings and present an analysis of what this data means for the global fight against the world's leading infectious child killer.

Speakers:

  • Dr. James Watt, Hib Inititative, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Dr. Kate O'Brien, PneumoADIP, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Dr. Anthony Scott, Kenya Medical Research Institute

  • Dr. Thomas Cherian, World Health Organization

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