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 1: Transitioning Polio Program Assets

Steve Cochi
Senior Advisor, Global Immunization Division, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Andrew Etsano
Incident Manager, National Polio Emergency Operations Center, Nigeria

Robert Oelrichs
Senior Health Specialist, Health, Nutirtion, and Population Global Practice, World Bank

Nata Menabde
Executive Director, World Health Organization Office at the United Nations

Moderator:
Nellie Bristol
Senior Fellow, CSIS Global Health Policy Center

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