A series of six lectures on Vaccines, Epidemics, and Ethics in the 2012-2013 school year at various auditoriums around the Texas Medical Center.

Polio: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Crusade

Dr. David Oshinsky (Pulitzer Prize winning author of Polio: An American Story) will discuss how the battle against polio revolutionized philanthropy and medical research in America.
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2013. 12:00 p.m.
Location: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Onstead Auditorium (second floor)
Note: This lecture is also part of the Houston History of Medicine Society lecture series.

New Vaccines: How and Why ACIP Makes Vaccine Recommendations

Dr. Larry Pickering (National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases) will discuss the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) process, using the experience with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as an example.
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013. 12:00 p.m.
Location: University of Texas School of Public Health Auditorium (main floor)

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Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases

Dr. Peter Hotez (founding Dean of the BCM National School for Tropical Medicine) will discuss providing access to innovations in biotechnology for the world's poorest people in developing countries and here in Texas and do a book signing of "Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development.”
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012. 12:00 - 1:30
Location: Texas Medical Center Library

How will Houston Deal with a Pandemic?

Dr. David E. Persse ( Department of Health & Human Services, City of Houston) will speak about how the City of Houston has prepared to deal with a pandemic and what would happen if there were a virulent disease outbreak.
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012. 12:00 p.m.
Location: University of Texas School of Public Health Auditorium

Immunization in the US - the Best or Worst in its Class?

Dr. Anne Schuchat (Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service) will discuss immunization patterns across the lifespan, vaccine-preventable disease trends, and analysis of where and why we are failing. She will explore the reasons why whooping cough is acting up, the factors that got HPV vaccine off track, and what UNICEF's health equity drive has to do with Houston's toddlers.
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013. 12:00 p.m.
Location: University of Texas Medical School Auditorium

Emerging Zoonotic Viral Infections: Do They Find Us or Do We Find Them?

Dr. C.J. Peters (Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, UTMB) will discuss the origins of microbial threats. Are they truly "new" or do they arise from mutation or translocation? How many are there? Can we predict them? What strategies can we use to control them?
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:00pm
Location: University of Texas Medical School Auditorium, MSB 3.001 (3rd floor)

For more information on the speaker and their lectures go to: http://www.library.tmc.edu/medicalethics/vaccines2012/home.php