Events

The Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award Ceremony

27 April 2010

The 2010 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award will be presented to Dr. John D. Clemens, President, International Vaccine Institute; on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in conjunction with the 13th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID).

The Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Sabin Vaccine Institute to recognize a researcher who has made extraordinary contributions in the field of vaccinology or a complimentary field. The medal commemorates the legacy of the late Dr. Sabin who discovered the oral polio vaccine and worked tirelessly during his lifetime to see it and other vaccines utilized globally.

This year, the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award ceremony will be held in downtown Washington, DC in the City View Room at The George Washington University while the NFID conference will take place in Bethesda, Maryland. Registration is required.

For additional information call 202-842-5025.

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World Pneumonia Day

2 November 2009

To raise awareness of the leading killer of children under 5 years old, Sabin is helping organize the first annual World Pneumonia Day. As part of a global initiative, World Pneumonia Day will feature several events around the world from a dodgeball tournament in the United States to a national scientific and policy symposium in Bangladesh.

For more information on how you or your organization can become involved in World Pneumonia Day, click here.

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Never a Greater Need: Social Investment and Philanthropy in Times of Crisis

15 April 2009

Kari Stoever of Sabin Vaccine Institute/Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases will be a featured speaker at a breakfast sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises (GIFE), Schwab Foundation, and Synergos Institute in conjunction with the World Economic Forum on Latin American being held from April 14th to April 16th, 2009.

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Fourth Regional Pneumococcal Symposium

2 - 3 March 2009

The 4th Regional Pneumococcal Symposium brought together over 185 scientific experts, key decision makers and public health professionals from 38 countries around the world who have dedicated their efforts to pneumococcal vaccine development and control of pneumococcal disease. While in Johannesburg they reviewed progress toward safe, effective pneumococcal vaccines and addressed many questions, including how to make sure they get to the world's poorest children.

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Eighth International Rotavirus Symposium

3 - 4 June 2008

The 8th International Rotavirus Symposium was held in Istanbul, Turkey on June 3-4, 2008. The meeting was a collaborative effort of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, PATH, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The event attracted representatives from over 67 countries who engaged the full range of scientific, social, and economic challenges that must be overcome in order to prevent this major killer of children.

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Sub-regional Symposium on New Vaccines: Pneumococcal, Rotavirus and Human Papilloma Virus (Colombia)

27 - 29 February 2008

In February of 2008, around 50 immunization experts from the Americas gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, to discuss strategies for broadening the adoption of pneumococcus, rotavirus and HPV vaccines. The Sub-regional Symposium on New Vaccines provided an opportunity for health planners in Peru and Colombia to share their experiences, needs and goals; to dialogue with international researchers; and to lay the groundwork for adopting vaccines against these diseases, as well as establishing the surveillance necessary to measure their impact.

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