News — The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will host an expert briefing for the media from 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 19, via Zoom, with two leading vaccine experts from the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Vaccines play a critical role in preventing illness and death from many infectious diseases, including measles and polio. They can also prevent common causes of pneumonia and diarrhea, liver and cervical cancer, and more. A 2024 study published in The Lancet and led by the World Health Organization estimates that vaccines have worldwide over the past 50 years.
, MD, and , MD, will discuss:
- The role vaccines play in public health
- The diseases that vaccines have virtually wiped out in the U.S.
- The current in the U.S.
- Vaccines and safety concerns
- Ongoing vaccine research
Experts:
- , MD, is a professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies experimental vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, dengue, West Nile virus, Zika, malaria, and more in human clinical trials and in controlled human infection studies.
- , MD, is a professor in the departments of Epidemiology; International Health; and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and executive director at the Bloomberg School’s .
Registration required: Media should register by 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, to receive the Zoom link and password for the briefing. Questions for the experts may be submitted via the registration form in advance or via chat during the briefing.
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