Events

19th Annual Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award Ceremony

7 May 2012

The 19th annual Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award Ceremony was held May 7, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. This year the award ceremony honored Dr. F. Marc LaForce for his contributions to the development of a new vaccine for epidemic meningitis in Africa. Read more about the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award

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Progress Toward Rubella Elimination and CRS Prevention in Europe

8 - 10 February 2012

Rubella during pregnancy often results in severe congenital abnormalities. Fortunately, the rubella vaccine has successfully eliminated rubella from the entire Western Hemisphere and Scandinavia. However, rubella continues to occur in much of Europe, in Asia and in Africa, and the WHO estimates that over 100,000 infants are born each year with congenital rubella syndrome. The Sabin Vaccine Institute, together with the March of Dimes, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is undertaking a series of advocacy activities to promote vaccination against rubella throughout the world.

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Third Annual Partnering for Cures Meeting

6 - 8 November 2011

We are pleased to announce that Sabin president Dr. Peter J. Hotez has been selected as an Innovative Presenter at the Partnering for Cures conference, which is taking place this November at the Grand Hyatt hotel in New York City. In its third year, the Partnering for Cures meeting brings together leaders from all sectors in medical research with the express purpose of fostering collaboration to address some of the most pressing medical challenges. The meeting is convened by FasterCures, the Washington, DC-based center of the Milken Institute. Other presenters include Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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2011 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award Ceremony

18 May 2011

Since 1994, the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal has been awarded annually in conjunction with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) Annual Conference on Vaccine Research. The fourteenth annual NFID conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland and the Sabin Vaccine Institute will host the 2011 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award ceremony at the conclusion of the NFID conference, on Wednesday, May 18, 2011.

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First Sabin Vaccine Institute Colloquium on Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF)

28 - 29 March 2011

The Sabin Vaccine Institute hosted the "First Sabin Vaccine Institute Colloquium on Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF)" from March 28-29, 2011.

Delegates from thirteen of the SIF Program's fifteen pilot countries gathered for the first global health conference dedicated to sustainable immunization financing. They addressed various programmatic, financial, policy and legislative hurdles that must be overcome if the countries are to internalize their routine immunization program costs and reduce their external partner dependency. The delegates identified their action points going forward in the Addis Ababa Declaration.

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Prevention of Child Killers: Pneumonia and Diarrhea

22 November 2010

On November 22, 2010, key health advocates from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq met for a symposium to address the burden of pneumococcal and diarrheal diseases across the Eastern Mediterranean region.

The symposium convened select Ministry of Health staff from participating countries, Technical Advisory Group (TAG) members, Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI), professional medical society leadership, pediatricians and university staff to discuss and collaborate on recommendations for expanding pneumonia and diarrheal vaccine access across the region.

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