The number of wild poliovirus cases worldwide is significantly reduced compared to last year, as Pakistan improves its immunization reach and Africa goes more than a year since its last reported case. Nonetheless, substantial challenges remain to global eradication, including newly reported cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus in Ukraine and Mali. Join the CSIS Global Health Policy Center on September 28 as it welcomes keynote speakers Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Chair of the global Polio Oversight Board, and Sir Liam Donaldson, Chair of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s Independent Monitoring Board. They and other top experts will discuss current and future eradication challenges, including the ambitious vaccine switch needed to address vaccine-derived polio cases. Panelists also will explore plans to transition polio-related assets and knowledge to national health systems and other health priorities as well as measures to address political instability and insecurity hampering vaccination efforts.

Panel 2: The Polio Vaccine Switch

Michel Zaffran
Coordinator, Expanded Program on Immunization, World Health Organization

Jon Andrus
Executive Vice President, the Sabin Vaccine Institute

Stephen Sosler
Immunization Technical Advisor, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Moderator:
Heidi Larson
Senior Lecturer, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Programs
GLOBAL HEALTH POLICY CENTER
Topics
GLOBAL HEALTH

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