Preventing
the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in an Age of Antiscience
Peter
Hotez, MD PHD
Professor
of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology
Texas
Children's Endowed Chair in Tropical Pediatrics
Dean of
the National School of Tropical Medicine
Baylor
College of Medicine
Learning
Objectives
At the
conclusion of the conference, participants will be able to:
Report on the geographic hot
spots where global goals have reversed and vaccine-preventable diseases have
returned due to war, political collapse, urbanization, climate change, and
antiscience
Place the emergence of
Covid-19 in this context
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Summarize how new vaccines
for neglected and emerging infections are being developed through vaccine
diplomacy
References:
COVID-19 vaccine design: the
Janus face of immune enhancement
Peter J.
Hotez, David B. Corry, Maria Elena Bottazzi
Nat Rev
Immunol. 2020 Apr 28 :
1–2. doi: 10.1038/s41577-020-0323-4 [Epub ahead of print]
COVID19 meets the Antivaccine
Movement
Peter J.
Hotez
Microbes
Infect. 2020 May 19 doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2020.05.010 [Epub
ahead of print]
Will COVID-19 become the next
neglected tropical disease?
Peter J.
Hotez, Maria E. Bottazzi, Sunit K. Singh, Paul J. Brindley, Shaden Kamhawi
PLoS Negl
Trop Dis. 2020 Apr; 14(4): e0008271. Published online 2020 Apr
10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008271
Enlisting the mRNA Vaccine Platform
to Combat Parasitic Infections
Leroy
Versteeg, Mashal M. Almutairi, Peter J. Hotez, Jeroen Pollet
Vaccines (Basel) 2019 Dec; 7(4):
122. Published online 2019 Sep 20. doi: 10.3390/vaccines7040122
PMCID:
PMC6963228
“Vaccine Diplomacy”:
Historical Perspectives and Future Directions
Peter J.
Hotez
PLoS Negl
Trop Dis. 2014 Jun; 8(6): e2808. Published online 2014 Jun
26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002808
Female Genital Schistosomiasis.
Hotez PJ,
Engels D, Gyapong M, Ducker C, Malecela MN.N Engl J Med. 2019 Dec
26;381(26):2493-2495. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1914709.
