Worldwide, pneumonia takes the lives of more young children than any other disease – more than 100 every hour of every day. The single biggest cause of fatal pneumonia in childhood is preventable with a vaccine. Please join us for a panel discussion featuring child health experts, advocates and researchers to discuss the successes, and remaining hurdles, towards achieving full protection against vaccine-preventable pneumonia and other diseases for the world’s most vulnerable children. Reception and refreshments to follow.

Panelists include:

• Cynthia Gorney (University of California, Berkeley, National Geographic) – moderator
• Dr. Samir Saha (Head of Microbiology Department at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Bangladesh and Executive Director of the Child Health Research Foundation, Bangladesh),
• Dr. Cynthia Whitney, (Chief of Respiratory Diseases Branch, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control)
• Dr. Keith Klugman (Director for Pneumonia, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
• Dr. Chizoba Wonodi, (Nigeria Director, International Vaccine Access Center)
• Martha Rebour, (Executive Director, Shot@Life, United Nations Foundation)

The event is open to all non-ASTMH Conference attendees.

Please RSVP here or contact swatips@jhu.edu with any questions.