BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:VideoCast CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Getting the Miracle of Vaccines to Those Who Most Need Them DTSTART:20120522T180000Z DTEND:20120522T190000Z DTSTAMP:20120524T213700Z UID:Videocast--11173 LOCATION:http://videocast.nih.gov DESCRIPTION:Seth Berkley\, M.D.\, CEO\, GAVI Alliance\nGAVI CEO Seth Berkley will describe the challenges and successes of bringing lifesaving vaccines to people who live in the poorest countries during the 2012 John Ring LaMontagne Memorial Lecture sponsored by NIAID. Titled "Getting the Miracle of Vaccines to Those Who Most Need Them."A physician and epidemiologist\, Berkley has devoted his career to improving international public health primarily through vaccines. Before joining the GAVI Alliance in 2011\, Berkley was the founding president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)\, a non-governmental organization dedicated to aggressively pursuing novel approaches to AIDS vaccine development.\n\nThe LaMontagne lecture honors contributions to NIH and public health made by Dr. LaMontagne during his 30-year career with NIAID. He earned international recognition\, numerous accolades and widespread admiration for his distinguished leadership and accomplishments in fighting emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. He served as NIAID deputy director from 1998 until his untimely death in 2004. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n\n

Author: Seth Berkley\, M.D.\, CEO\, GAVI Alliance

Description: GAVI CEO Seth Berkley will describe the challenges and successes of bringing lifesaving vaccines to people who live in the poorest countries during the 2012 John Ring LaMontagne Memorial Lecture sponsored by NIAID. Titled "Getting the Miracle of Vaccines to Those Who Most Need Them."A physician and epidemiologist\, Berkley has devoted his career to improving international public health primarily through vaccines. Before joining the GAVI Alliance in 2011\, Berkley was the founding president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)\, a non-governmental organization dedicated to aggressively pursuing novel approaches to AIDS vaccine development.

The LaMontagne lecture honors contributions to NIH and public health made by Dr. LaMontagne during his 30-year career with NIAID. He earned international recognition\, numerous accolades and widespread admiration for his distinguished leadership and accomplishments in fighting emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. He served as NIAID deputy director from 1998 until his untimely death in 2004.

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